16 WORKPLACE HAZARDS AND 3 STEPS TO SAFETY

With 75 workplace fatalities in NZ for 2019, it’s time to identify workplace hazards and minimise their risks. While the definition of hazard is ’a danger or something that can cause damage’, ‘risk’ refers to the likelihood of a specific effect within a specified period. For example, a corrosive chemical is a hazard, but the storage risks can…

TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AND PEDESTRIAN SEGREGRATION

Mobile plant and pedestrians don’t (or shouldn’t) mix. A NZ company was sentenced in March for a fatality because ‘there should have been an enforced exclusion zone on site to separate workers from machinery with the ability to kill or injure.’ (WorkSafe’s Chief Inspector, Steve Kelly) Here’s where to start when you get serious about…