Pledge your support to reduce the work-related injury toll
Issue 33 – November 2011
Last year 75 people died at work in New Zealand and hundreds more were seriously injured. How can you and your workplace help to make a difference to the toll of work-related injury, fatality, and disease ('the work toll')? The Department of Labour is calling for stakeholders to play their part in reducing New Zealand's work toll and sign the Partners in Action Pledge (the Pledge), a symbolic acknowledgement of the joint effort needed to reduce New Zealand's work toll.
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[more]Feedback sought on plan to reduce illness and injury at work
Issue 33 – November 2011
The Department of Labour is seeking feedback on the draft Occupational Health Action Plan to improve the occupational health of New Zealand workers was released by the Department of Labour on 26 October 2011. It is estimated that between 700 and 1000 New Zealanders die each year because of occupational disease and that over 17 000 new cases of work-related diseases occur annually. The draft action plan is part of the National Action Agenda to reduce death and injury rates in the workplace.
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[more]NEW JOINT STANDARD
AS/NZS 4421:2011 Guard and patrol security services
Specifies the minimum requirements and provides further recommendations for the organization, staffing, professional development, operation and management of a company providing protective security services.
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