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Health | ISN - Industrial Safety News
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Plan launched to reduce health risks at work. A 10-year plan to address health risks in New Zealand’s workplaces has been launched in Wellington by the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety Michael Woodhouse. WorkSafe New Zealand’s strategic plan for work-related health, ‘Healthy Work’, outlines the approach WorkSafe will take over the coming ten years to support and enable businesses to better manage work-related health risks. The plan focuses on enabling greater leadership across the health and s...
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Digital Edition | ISN - Industrial Safety News
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Lyttelton Port Company pays heavy price for worker’s straddle carrier death | ISN - Industrial Safety News
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Lyttelton Port Company pays heavy price for worker’s straddle carrier death. The family of port worker Bradley Fletcher will receive $75,000 in court-ordered reparation from the Lyttelton Port Company, which has also been fined $63,000 over his death. A WorkSafe New Zealand investigation found multiple failures by the port company contributed to Mr Fletcher’s death, including poor maintenance, a lack of training and inadequate systems for identifying faulty machinery and returning it to safe use. Instead...
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Media Kit | ISN - Industrial Safety News
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ISN is published five times per year and provides readers with news and information that increases their knowledge of safety products and services, regulations and best practices. Download PDF (Size is 465 KB). Phone 09 489 8663.
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Watercares charges enable timely investment. Watercares new asset management plan demonstrates the value of having a strategically capable specialist infrastructure provider with the ability to set prices to fund growth, says Stephen Selwood CEO of the New Zealand Council for Infrastructure Development (NZCID). He believes the ability to look out 10 and 20 years and produce a fully funded investment programme is made possible by Watercare’s consolidation of activities inside a special purpose, non-...
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NZTech and Canterbury Software Cluster to sign innovative tech agreement. The voice of the New Zealand technology industry, NZTech, and the Canterbury Software Cluster will sign an historic agreement in February to create the start of a national alliance of tech industry bodies. It will be the first-ever agreement of its type in a sector that is the fastest-growing in New Zealand and the country’s number three export earner. Software Cluster Chair Michael Trengrove says the work Muller and his NZTech tea...
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Categories | ISN - Industrial Safety News
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PPE is any clothing or equipment used by workers to reduce the chance that they will be harmed by something in their workplace. It covers all types of body cover, equipment and instrumentation that workers may wear, use or carry. All aspects of height, access and confined space safety will be covered, from regulations and training to the latest thinking on best practice and equipment. This section will concentrate on the workplace: the building, the worksite, the factory or warehouse and look at what saf...
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Environment | ISN - Industrial Safety News
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High levels of microplastics found on New Zealand coasts. The first dedicated study to investigate the quantities and types of microplastics in New Zealand coastal environments has identified that local shores have comparable concentrations of microplastics to overseas. The recently published study indicated the highest concentrations of plastics were measured on exposed beaches close to urban areas. UC Senior Lecturer in Environmental Chemistry Dr Sally Gaw supervised the research project, which is the ...
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Unique energy storage solution for large power users | Infrastructure News
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Unique energy storage solution for large power users. Organisations with large power bills will be interested to know about an innovative energy storage system that could save them tens of thousands of dollars a year in energy costs. Called Powerstar Virtue, it has been developed by the manufacturer of Powerstar, the world’s market-leading range of voltage optimisation (VO) systems. Powerstar Australasia Operations Director Sam Czyczelis says that considering most buildings receive power from the grid at...
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Telco shows the way for infrastructure. New Zealand’s rise up the OECD on measures of telecommunications performance is an example of what can be achieved with strong public and private sector cooperation, market competition and cutting edge infrastructure procurement, says New Zealand Council for Infrastructure Development CEO Stephen Selwood. Telecommunications is the “unsung hero” of New Zealand infrastructure, Selwood argues. “The keys to New Zealand turning around this poor sit...Fixed broadband imp...
