Health and Safety | HR Development

07 Sep

Office – Safety Passport

Version 2.0 of HR Developments successful Office - Safety Passport is in production. It provides quality health and safety inductions for new staff and refreshers for existing staff, and is tailored to your requirements. Office - Safety Passport - Premium edition delivers 2.5 hours of online training that gives staff a great grounding in how to stay healthy and safe in an office environment. Office Safety Passport is a blend of customised vocam safety-tv E-Learning courses and our own in-house E-Learning platform - [...]

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07 Sep

Virtual Hazard Registers

HR Development is excited to be partnering with Beek to combine their virtual reality platform with our health and safety expertise. The first project we are bringing to market is a virtual hazard register that can be used for new staff inductions, ongoing training, contractor management and hazard management. Our 360 degree camera shots recreate your workplace which is overlaid with hazard information and hazard controls. The first virtual hazard register for an aquatic centre is in production at [...]

By Dave Griffith Current Projects beek, contractor management, Hazard, hazard register, Health and Safety, HR Development, staff induction, Training, virtual reality Comments Off

02 Sep

Port Health and Safety in NZ

Port operations provides one of the most challenging and complex work environments from a health and safety perspective in New Zealand. A lot of people working for different organisations, using large machinery and vehicles, with tight deadlines are working fast and hard in a confined geographical footprint. The addition of water and weather just adds to the degree of risk faced by those with the task of turning productivity into profit. Despite a huge amount of effort going into [...]

By Dave Griffith Employment Issues, Health and Safety Accidents, Hazards, Health and Safety, incidents, Management, port, straddles, tasks, workflows Comments Off

09 Apr

Fatal pipeline blast – company fined

Philomen Gulland - a life lost in an unnecessary tragedy. A piping firm has been fined over a fatal pipeline explosion in Onehunga, Auckland. The June 2011 blast killed one worker and left another a double amputee. Canadian Pacific Ltd was today sentenced to pay $55,250 after being found guilty of failing to take all practicable steps to protect employees and failing to take all practicable steps to protect others. Mother-of-two Philomen Gulland lost her life in the explosion. Gulland was working [...]

By admin Employment Issues, Health and Safety Accident, fatality, Health and Safety, onehunga Comments Off

06 Jan

Health and Safety at Work Act – beware the circling sharks

The imminent introduction of the Health and Safety Reform Bill in the Parliamentary select committee process will sharpen senior management focus on what this means for the organisations they manage. There has already been a lot of hype generated by politicians and the mainstream media putting the wind up directors and senior managers. Behind the scenes there had been a lot of work done by health and safety professionals assessing the likely impact of the new legislation and the [...]

By Dave Griffith Health and Safety compliance, consultants, Health and Safety, health and safety at work act, health and safety framework, health and safety reform bill, Safety, Workplace Safety, worksafe nz Comments Off

21 Oct

Port worker dismissal upheld despite safety concerns

Auckland port worker Danny Belsham was justifiably dismissed after he refused to work due to health and safety concerns, the Employment Court has ruled. Danny Belsham was dismissed from his employment with Ports of Auckland Limited on October 16 2013, after he refused to start work and man a straddle crane. In Mr Belsham's dismissal letter, the port's then terminal operations general manager Raoul Borley said his 19 years of service with the company was taken into account. "I have also taken [...]

By Dave Griffith Employment Issues Auckland, danny belsham, Employment Court, Health and Safety, justified dismissal, port of auckland, refusal to work, unjustified dismissal Comments Off

06 Nov

Introduction to ACC Workplace Safety Management Practices Scheme (WSMP)

Introduction The Workplace Safety Management Practices scheme (WSMP) is a nationally recognised standard in organisational Health and Safety. Through its ten critical elements it gives a good coverage of what an successful organisations need to have in place to exercise best practice health and safety in their workplace. This introductory course gives and overview of the structure and content of the scheme. What is involved in participating in it and what are the potential benefits of achieving the audit standards. Many [...]

By admin Health and Safety Training ACC, Accidents, critical elements, Employees, focus groups, Hazards, Health and Safety, Training, Workplace Safety Management Practices, WSMP Comments Off

26 Sep

Successful Health and Safety Committees

Introduction Employee participation in workplace health and safety is a required by law. Many organisations have put committees in place and provided initial training on the role of the committee. Often little has been planned in the way of refresher training. New committee members have come on over the years but they to may not have been given formal training about the role of the committee and their part in its operation. This course is designed to focus both old and [...]

By admin Health and Safety Training Accidents, committees, Employees, Hazards, Health and Safety, Training Comments Off

12 Jun

Meatworks fined $23,000 for accident that severed part of thumb

South Pacific Meats has been fined $23,000 after being found guilty of negligence in a 2010 saw accident in which a man lost part of his thumb. Yesterday was the conclusion of the long-running legal battle between the Awarua meatworks and the New Zealand Meat Workers Union, which brought a private prosecution on behalf of Henry Kingi. The case took more than eight days of the court's time spread during several months at Invercargill District Court, in front of Judge Alistair [...]

By admin Health and Safety Accident, Fine, Health and Safety, Invercargill District Court, New Zealand Meatworkers Union, South Pacific Meats Comments Off

13 Sep

Man crushed by falling generator named

The accident scene at TransDiesel.Police have released the name of a man crushed by a generator in a workplace accident on Hornby, Christchurch yesterday. Neville Raymond Sutherland, 30, was delivering a large generator when a forklift removing it from his truck toppled over, crushing him to death. Emergency services were called to the premises of TransDiesel Limited at Calgary Place in Hornby just before midday. Mr Sutherland died at the scene. A witness who did not want to be named told APNZ [...]

By admin Health and Safety Accident, Charter Transport, Christchurch, Department of Labour, Health and Safety, Hornby, Police, TransDiesel Limited, Workplace Accident, Workplace Death Comments Off

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