Failures of Health and Safety consultants may lead to prosecution

Recent concerns have been raised by WorkSafe NZ in relation to... read more

Recent concerns have been raised by WorkSafe NZ in relation to the quality of the health exposure monitoring, by some...

The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA) introduced a positive... read more

The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA) introduced a positive duty on all company officers (including directors, partners,...

Falsifying Drug Tests Synthetic urine continues to be an ongoing... read more

Falsifying Drug Tests Synthetic urine continues to be an ongoing issue in the drug testing arena. Synthetic urine is a...

Private prosecutions may well be set to occur more regularly... read more

Private prosecutions may well be set to occur more regularly under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA),...

Last year we discussed a Bill proposing to change the Health... read more

Last year we discussed a Bill proposing to change the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (Act) to exclude...

MMD Engineering Limited has been the first designer and manufacturer... read more

MMD Engineering Limited has been the first designer and manufacturer of machinery to be sentenced under the new Health and...

Health and safety duties can overlap within a contractual relationship.... read more

Health and safety duties can overlap within a contractual relationship. We discussed this, and the cases coming through which highlight...

WorkSafe has successfully prosecuted a farm company director... read more

WorkSafe has successfully prosecuted a farm company director who instructed an employee to lie to investigators. An employee suffered a...

Health and Safety / August 19, 2019

Late last year a tree collapsed at the Discoveries Educare Limited... read more

Late last year a tree collapsed at the Discoveries Educare Limited (Discoveries Educare) early learning centre in Auckland. Both the...

Health and Safety / September 26, 2019

In April 2016 the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA) came... read more

In April 2016 the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA) came into force. The new legislation gained significant...