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...
Aggregate & Quarry Association (AQA) chief executive Roger Parton says councils need to ensure ongoing quarry production in 2016 and watch for new health and safety requirements coming into force.
The quarry industry often puts councils between a rock and a hard place. That very rock (or river stone) that councils need for their...
Issues around PCBUs – a person conducting a business or undertaking – under incoming new health and safety legislation could prove tricky for organisations employing lone workers, says Guardian Angel Security MD Petra Hakansson.
Petra says she is not a lawyer but has spent enough time around health and safety industry professionals...
