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The Safe Side | Issue 58
27/06/2024
In this issue, we cover two significant developments in Aotearoa New Zealand’s health and safety system. Firstly, WorkSafe released a refreshed “back to basics” strategy which explains its role and where it will focus its effort in the coming years. Secondly, the Government announced the start of consultation on its promised review of the Health and Safety at Work Act (HASWA) and regulations. We also report on three recent prosecutions and a new enforceable undertaking (EU). One of the prosecutions and the EU involved serious injuries caused by forklifts striking pedestrians, a further prosecution was for exposure to silica dust at an Australian quarry and the final prosecution arose after a fishing charter vessel ran out of fuel 27 nautical miles off the Gisborne coast.
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The Safe Side | Issue 57
29/05/2024
This month’s issue of The Safe Side covers five recent sentencings for breaches of health and safety legislation. Three resulted after workers in the manufacturing sector sustained severe finger injuries on machinery. A further sentencing followed the death of a young worker in Canterbury and the last saw another huge fine from the UK Courts after a man was killed by a vehicle at a work site. We also have an article on the filing of charges following the tragic death of a teenager on a school trip at Abbey Caves. Finally, we report on a study which estimates the staggering annual cost of workplace bullying and harassment in Aotearoa New Zealand as over $1.3 billion and rising.
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The Safe Side | Issue 56
09/05/2024
It may be that WorkSafe has recovered its earlier enthusiasm for Enforceable Undertakings (EUs) as an alternative to prosecution. Last month, we covered two new EUs made under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HASWA). This month, we look at two further EUs that WorkSafe has recently accepted. We also have articles on the sentencing of an Australian company after the tragic death of an 80-year-old man who died after being trapped in a disused stairwell, and the prosecution of a director and company following long term and persistent bullying of a subcontractor. Finally, we cover the filing of a charge by Maritime New Zealand against KiwiRail after the Interislander ferry, Kaitaki, lost power in the Cook Strait last year.
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