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There are four core pillars of workplace safety in New Zealand: leadership and due diligence, risk management, worker engagement and participation, and incident reporting and notification. In order to meet work and safety in NZ requirements, a living health and safety system that incorporates these four pillars is needed.

Sara shares what a near miss in safety is and steps on how to encourage your team to report near misses better.

Last week, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the Covid-19 Protection Framework, which is intended to help us stay safe from Covid-19 into the future. The framework relies on vaccinations and kicks in when 90% of the eligible population in each DHB has been fully vaccinated. Requiring 90% in each DHB should ensure that each region of New Zealand is protected. Auckland will be able to move to Red when all three of its DHBs have 90% full vaccination. There is a strong focu

That appears to be the question of the day. We are getting asked this often. The question is always accompanied by – my client won’t let us on site unless we are vaccinated, my customers are saying they won’t use us unless we are fully vaccinated, the newspaper reports that The Warehouse is proposing compulsory vaccination. The answer is very complicated. COVID-19 is challenging enough from a health and safety perspective, but many of the issues need to be managed under HR. T

Last week I was asked to meet with an organisation to talk about providing health and safety support to them. This happens frequently, which is just as well, or I wouldn’t have a business. Why am I writing about this meeting – what was different about it? The difference is that I had first spoken to them a few years ago. Three years ago, we had almost the same conversation. I told them what Safewise could do to support them and they talked about being able to do it themselves