Businesses reminded to ensure employees are protected from chemical exposure
The Department of Labour is reminding businesses to ensure procedures designed to protect staff from exposure to chemical leaks are kept up to date and equipment is regularly checked.
'Failure to do these things can prove costly – both for employers and employees,' says Department of Labour Workplace Services Central Regional Manager Brett Murray.
Mr Murray was speaking after Aotearoa Coolstores Ltd was last week fined $42,000 in the Napier District Court after pleading guilty to one charge (relating to seven employees) of breaching the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992. The charge followed an ammonia leak from a compressor at the company's Feilding coolstore on 28 November 2007.
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