Safety Conferences have a place in Training

Safety Conferences have a place in TrainingConferences can be one of the most valuable ways to increase your safety performance. When you have a limited training budget for your staff there are a number of things you can do. But it’s a compromise between time...

Safety Standards in New Zealand; The NZSC or NZISM?

Safety Standards in New Zealand; The NZSC or NZISM? In New Zealand there are two main professional groups for safety managers and advisors to be a part of. There are many more for smaller professional bodies, which can be found under the OHSIG umbrella e.g....

ACC OSH Audit and Experience Rating System

ACC OSH Audit and Experience Rating System As of April 2011 the ACC are changing the way they reward New Zealand businesses for having a working OSH system. The approach currently is to assess a business’s OSH system and then reward the company with a discount on...

Safety, NASA and Risk Management Lessons

NASA recently presented an safety award to a one of their own 30 year + employees, for being ‘ instrumental in reshaping NASA’s safety and mission assurance program. He is a founding member of the agency’s Office of Safety and Mission Assurance. He managed...

OSH Prevention Better Than Emergency Response

OSH Prevention Better Than Emergency Response Before OSH, for centuries people intuitively knew that it was better to stop things you don’t want happening, than deal with the fallout. ‘A stitch in time saves times’ I can remember my mother saying. Or...