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…