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The Safe Side | Issue 44
30/03/2023
This month, we cover the third successful Court Ordered Enforceable Undertaking (COEU) imposed under the Health and Safety at Work Act. The COEU was proposed by the defendant as an alternative to paying a fine. We also look at a case where the failure to ensure workers wear eye protection has landed a company with a conviction and significant reparation orders. This follows a very similar prosecution of a fencing company last year. In addition, we have articles about a prosecution that arose from an incident where a new worker was struck on the head and shoulders by a skip bin, an eyewatering AU$1.5 million fine handed to an Australian energy company after the death of a worker at a power station and how two companies ended up paying $28,000 because neither one of them notified Maritime NZ that a worker had suffered minor burns.
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The Safe Side | Issue 43
28/02/2023
Welcome to the first issue of The Safe Side for 2023! We start 2023 by reporting on a school trip to the Poor Knights Islands that almost ended in tragedy and remind schools about the importance of assessing and controlling on-water risks when students undertake activities outside the classroom. We also look at the sentencings of three companies after recent health and safety prosecutions. Two Australian companies were given substantial fines following the deaths of workers while unloading stone slabs from containers, while a New Zealand forestry servicing company was ordered to pay over $500,000 after a remote field worker died when working on a logging harvesting machine.
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The Safe Side | Issue 42
19/12/2022
In the last issue of The Safe Side for 2022, we report on six recent sentencings - three under the Health and Safety at Work Act (HASWA) and three under the Fair Trading Act. Two of the HASWA cases involved hazardous machinery and sadly, one resulted in a fatality. The other HASWA prosecution was brought after a subcontracted painter fell 4.7m from a roof and died as a result of his injuries. The Fair Trading Act prosecutions were taken by the Commerce Commission and the convictions resulted in total combined fines of more than $1.42 million for the three companies involved.
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