Workforce and management training, higher levels of awareness and a greater focus on wellbeing will become more important as local authorities enter a new era of workplace health and safety. Patricia Moore maps the near and distant future.
The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 has turned the spotlight squarely on improving New...
Councils around the country may face some 21st century risks from much earlier practices. Aggregate News editor Brendon Burns reports.
As settlers tumbled across the New Zealand landscape in the 19th century, the demand for aggregate was their ballast. Local county councils opened and operated hundreds of small quarries and gravel pits...
Civil Contractors New Zealand chief executive Peter Silcock says council support is critical to new H&S competency framework.
The lack of a nationally recognised and accepted competency standard is a significant barrier to improving the health and safety of people working in the construction sector. We all know that a construction...
