![[SG]](/databases/skin/safeguard/images/content/covers/Safeguard-Issue 149.jpg)
Opinion
Comment—The death knock
Add to Session workbookFifteen years on, DANIELLE ZINZAN will never forget the day a police officer knocked on her family’s door.
Read this articleFeatures
Small team, large impact
Add to Session workbookJACKIE BROWN-HAYSOM meets an award-winning team that is turning the tide for residential construction workers.
Subscribe to read this articlePermission to stop
Add to Session workbookIn the supermarket world, being open for business is an imperative. PETER BATEMAN talks to a supermarket leader who is prepared to encourage staff to shut down for safety’s sake.
Subscribe to read this articleReturn on investment
Add to Session workbookDAMIAN BASSETT sets out the links between safety performance and broader business excellence.
Subscribe to read this articleHow to lead safety
Add to Session workbookJULIAN HUGHES outlines what world-class safety leadership looks like, and three business leaders provide examples from their own experience.
Subscribe to read this articleChange in practice
Add to Session workbookA senior OHS manager who has already started implementing the key requirements from the new legislation shares his thoughts with JACKIE BROWN-HAYSOM
Subscribe to read this articleDelivering due diligence
Add to Session workbookThe new legislation will oblige company directors to exercise high quality due diligence, say HILLARY BENNETT and PHILIP VOSS.
Subscribe to read this articleSpeaking up for safety
Add to Session workbookLANCE WIGGS urges health and safety people to be leaders who fearlessly intervene wherever they see unsafe behaviour or conditions.
Read this articleCode of steel
Add to Session workbookNZ Steel’s contractor engagement process is based upon a safety management code of practice which takes a highly collaborative approach. PETER BATEMAN reports.
Read this articleRisk: filling the gaps
Add to Session workbookHaving health and safety systems is one thing; getting them to work as intended is another. KATHERINE PERCY looks at how to identify and close the gaps between high level aspirations and what is actually happening.
Subscribe to read this articleSafeguard online survey—Stand and deliver
Add to Session workbookPassport evolution
Add to Session workbookBLAKE KYLE on how the training methods used in Site Safe’s Passport course have evolved over the past 15 years.
Subscribe to read this articleColumns
Legal viewpoint—Beyond liquidation
Add to Session workbookMIKE HARGREAVES warns that WorkSafe will not necessarily drop a prosecution just because a company has gone into liquidation.
Subscribe to read this articleFrom the courts
Add to Session workbookIt’s academic—Testing behaviour
Add to Session workbookHow do employees feel about participating in behaviour-based safety programmes? IAN LAIRD and MICHAEL MATHEWS did some research to find out.
Subscribe to read this articleRegulator report—Reducing the farming toll
Add to Session workbookAL McCONE introduces a significant new initiative designed to tackle the high toll of death and serious injury on New Zealand farms.
Subscribe to read this articleHealth matters—Ebola awareness
Add to Session workbookThe devastating epidemic of Ebola in parts of West Africa has killed thousands. LANCE JENNINGS describes how the virus is spread.
Subscribe to read this articleLook & learn—I heard it on the radio
Add to Session workbookTIM WILSON goes for a farm tour and uses open-ended questions to enable the farmer to come up with some practical health and safety improvements.
Subscribe to read this articleNZISM perspective—The right direction
Add to Session workbookFour years on from Pike River, PAUL HARPER is optimistic that health and safety in New Zealand is now on the right road – but the journey will be long.
Subscribe to read this articleIncident investigation—Asbestos: when in doubt, test
Add to Session workbookIn the spotlight—Anne McMahon
Add to Session workbookTrue confessions—Driving on autopilot
Add to Session workbookJUDY CURRIE learns the value of staying in the moment rather than daydreaming about other things. Especially when behind the wheel.
Subscribe to read this article