Contact Energy has embraced Todd Conklin’s notion of learning teams to come up with ideas and decide which ones to implement. In which case, asks JOHN SKUDDER, where is H&S expertise located?

Driving is an unusually complex critical risk because the factors in play are so diverse. JACKIE BROWN-HAYSOM reports that relying on a driving policy is wholly inadequate to keep your people safe behind the wheel.

KiwiRail won the worker involvement category with its Hot Works project. PETER BATEMAN talks to Strachan Crang about the distinctive methodology used.

For the 2017 New Zealand Workplace Health & Safety Awards we introduced a new logo, the Manaia.

Sarah McDonald tells PETER BATEMAN about connecting health services to workers and enabling the guys on the ground to run health and safety themselves.

WARREN BROOKBANKS argues the HSW Act represents a missed opportunity to take a non-adversarial approach to health and safety law, and that enforceable undertakings should be at its heart.

Our legislation is based on Australia’s Model Law. JANE HALL and NICK NEIL review the lessons for officers from Australian case law.

The Grenfell Tower tragedy in London has put a spotlight on the health & safety responsibilities of commercial landlords and their employer tenants. GARTH GALLAWAY summarises the key issues.

An analysis of the regulator’s prosecution and other enforcement activity uncovers trends in the nature of the incidents that lead to enforcement. KEVIN OLDHAM and JESSICA SPINETTO sifted through the data.

In this extract from his new book, TODD CONKLIN challenges the standard approach to risk management and suggests three questions to help build capacity to fail safely.

The Canterbury Rebuild Safety Charter has helped transform construction in Christchurch and surrounds and is now influencing thinking elsewhere and in other sectors, reports JACKIE BROWN-HAYSOM.

PETER BATEMAN introduces a debate on the merits of pre-employment drug testing.

Do you give advice on health & safety but are not a member of a H&S professional body? MIKE COSMAN challenges you to think again.

Far too many workers on foot are struck and killed by mobile plant, vehicles and other equipment in motion. JO-ANN PUGH highlights this common critical risk.

Violence at work is a largely unexamined H&S issue. ZOË PORT, DAVID TAPPIN and DARRYL FORSYTH looked at dozens of employment disputes and discovered two interesting trends.

“At my workplace one of the biggest chances of being killed or seriously injured comes when we jump in a car or van to visit clients, and yet driving is not even considered within our health and safety system. How can I persuade the company to include driving as a critical risk?”

Farming is a tough game, and getting farmers to acknowledge mental health issues is a tough ask. LOUISE THOMPSON describes an initiative which is making a difference.

Close shaves, near misses, narrow escapes – GRAHAM DARLOW’s had a few and lived to tell the tale. And to reflect on how they motivated him to take health and safety seriously.