Setting up a certification scheme for forestry contractors wasn’t straightforward. FIONA EWING offers up some lessons for any other sector contemplating something similar.

Following up last issue’s story, occupational physicians tell JACKIE BROWN-HAYSOM how they can add value to the management of health risks.

Professor BILL GLASS, the acknowledged father of occupational medicine in New Zealand, talks about his accidental 60-year career.

How do you safely control access to dozens of dangerous machines by hundreds of untrained students? PETER BATEMAN visited Unitec to find out.

Three companies have appealed their sentences imposed under the HSW Act. JACKIE BROWN-HAYSOM looks at how the High Court’s decision will set sentencing bands.

Enforceable undertakings are a new tool made available to the regulator under the HSW Act. MIKE COSMAN looks at how they are being used.

MICHAEL TOOMA outlines the key developments in Australian health & safety law over the last year and what’s coming up in the rest of 2018.

STEPH DYHRBERG says Dame Margaret Bazley’s report is a wake-up call for H&S practitioners and employers to finally acknowledge sexual harassment and bullying as hazards.

GILLIAN SERVICE and MEGAN RICHARDS remind employers that they are liable for the effects of risk exposure even when those effects are felt when the employee is not working.

Connor Higgins rolled his side-by-side vehicle earlier this year, and lived to tell the tale. He told PETER BATEMAN he could well have been killed if he’d been on a quad bike.

Craig Smith recently retired as chair of HASANZ. He talked to JACKIE BROWN-HAYSOM about social justice, professional bodies working together, and next steps to improve H&S.

Imaginative branding and clear messages are making safety a daily talking point at this year’s small business category winner. JACKIE BROWN-HAYSOM reports.

Practitioner of the Year award winner TERRI COOPLAND on her 31 years with Mars Petcare, in the UK and in New Zealand.

PHILIP ALDRIDGE says the launch of the HASANZ register on 27 July marks a milestone in the progress of our national workplace health and safety system.

NADINE McDONNELL argues that a record of disagreement between staff and management – and how these differences are resolved – is the mark of a genuine safety culture.

A health & safety generalist needs to know when to call in a specialist. GREG DEARSLY, MARION EDWIN and DEREK MILLER explain.

Should we do chest X-rays on people accidentally exposed to a small amount of asbestos at work? MARY OBELE thinks not.

When MATT SADGROVE moved south to the country he didn’t anticipate getting a rough lesson in the need for calmness in the face of crisis