Stuck in a health & safety job where disengaged managers prevent you from making a difference, no matter how hard you work? Read on, for here is a cautionary tale.

PETER BATEMAN reports on the 2017 awards dinner attended by a record crowd of 620.

Six months into the role, the chief executive of WorkSafe New Zealand talks to PETER BATEMAN about pain, risk, maturity, and people who have influenced her. She even slips in a recruiting plug.

Driving is arguably the leading cause of work-related death and serious injury yet, as JACKIE BROWN-HAYSOM reports, we are not even properly measuring this critical risk, let alone managing it well.

Alcohol and recreational drugs are well known to impair drivers, but what about prescription medications? MARGARET STEVENSON-WRIGHT reports.

The introduction of entirely new technology can eliminate some risks but introduce others, as IAN O’KEEFE explains.

How can robots be harnessed to eliminate human exposure to serious hazards? RICHARD PARKER, BRIONNY HOOPER and PETER CLINTON give practical examples from forestry.

Would you rather be on-site dodging mobile plant or perched safely outside the action? CLINTON HEALY explains how drones have transformed surveying.

Rob Jager’s work in influencing health and safety was recognised this year with a Lifetime Achievement award. PETER BATEMAN talked to him at Shell’s Wellington office.

Remember how Warren Beatty read out the wrong winner at the Oscars? STEVEN SHORROCK says the incident and the response to it provide valuable lessons in building a just culture.

They arrived curious and cautious and they left energised and enabled. PETER BATEMAN reports on the 2017 Safeguard conference.

GRANT NICHOLSON and RICHARD MONIGATTI look at the lessons from the first enforceable undertaking under the HSW Act.

Legal compliance is a necessary but not sufficient requirement to transform H&S performance – the other element, says CRAIG SMITH, is thinking.

“As manager of a medium sized company which tenders for work, I find the proliferation of health & safety prequalification schemes confusing. Some are generic, some are in-house. All are a huge bureaucratic hoop to jump through. How can I best use them to help feed back into improving our ability to manage risk?”

An adult patient presents with asthma symptoms. Dr MICHAEL KAHAN does some detective work and decides the cause is an exposure to dust at work.

NICOLE ROSIE with further thoughts on critical risks, common fatal risks, and viewing the gap between frontline staff and boardroom as your internal supply chain.

The saying that one size doesn’t fit all also applies to H&S practitioners. GREG DEARSLY recommends knowing your limits and having a CPD plan to fill particular gaps.

Sheep may safely graze but it’s best not to get between them and a bruiser of a ram with a point to prove. FIONA EWING lived to tell the tale.