A wide range of forest safety experts are making positive change in New Zealand’s forestry workplace, using peoples’ minds to bring safety culture change to their work situations and combining that with technology to make their job safer. Workers and safety champions in the forest industry around the country have been working hard to improve…

Workers fight back with deviant behaviour in a precarious workplace: study by PJ Holtum.  Available from <http://theconversation.com/workers-fight-back-with-deviant-behaviour-in-a-precarious-workplace-study-69208> [November 25, 2016 12.58pm AEDT] When working conditions are harsh, workers are more likely to find satisfaction through small acts of deviant behaviour instead of banding together or joining a union, my research shows. I interviewed 30 unskilled workers…

Urgent rethink needed on workplace safety Press Release: New Zealand Labour Party.  Available from <http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1611/S00428/urgent-rethink-needed-on-workplace-safety.htm> [Wednesday, 23 November 2016, 10:09 am] Photo Credit:  By NAVFAC (Monthly Safety Stand Down) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons An urgent rethink is needed on the Government’s new workplace safety laws with the number of deaths this year…

New research from the Skin and Cancer Foundation has found that despite years of sun safety messages, some employers are not providing adequate sun protection for their workers. While 55 per cent of Australian adults are employed in jobs that regularly, or always require them to be outdoors, almost a third of employees required to…