How does a story about 5 year old kid crashing his bike relate to wearing the right safety gear at work? This week Zane and Arthur bring Workshop Wednesday to us from the lovely Lake Taupo. Why is safety gear important? will it cover us 100%? and does it look cool?...
Read MoreWhat are workers, what do they have to do and what could happen if a worker does something stupid? Today we're talking about the term 'Workers' and what that means in the new Health & Safety Law, coming into effect on the 4th April 2016. Here are 5 things to know if you're a worker...
Read MoreNotifiable events, injuries, illnesses, incidents, what the heck?! Safety sucks! Or does it?
While it does sound a bit confusing, this week we explain what notifiable events actually are and show what we need to do in our businesses to stay away from them...
The new Health and Safety law is a full 188 pages of details so instead of you going through it trying to make sense of it, we have pulled out the main bits from it and show how it will apply to small business. And we have done it in about 4 minutes, check it out...
Read MoreThe health and safety reform will be law from 4th April 2016, that means we need to get our silly safety manuals all up to date right? Wrong. We revisit our 'Throw Your Safety Manual in the Bin' Workshop Wednesday and go over what we should do instead, making safety relevant and practical in your small business...
Read MoreIt's quite often the gear in our workplaces that can be a bit risky and cause accidents. New gear we don't know how to use properly, gear that's been 'modified,' gear that needs a bit of maintenance, it can all be risky. So how do we make sure our gear stays safe? Here are 6 tips to keep your gear safe...
Read MoreTeam meetings can be pretty bad, they can be a waste of time, they're boring, nothing gets done, and there's always that one guy who talks for ages making it run over time. However they're a good opportunity to get feedback and create a plan of action. So we have a few tips so you can make team meetings interactive, engaging and effective...
Read MoreHaving a good approach to safety is not rocket science. This week we thought we would look back over some of our Workshop Wednesday's to remind us that having a good approach to safety is actually quite easy, safety does not have to be complicated or scary. Check it out...
Read MoreSo often we see the people we work with do stuff that isn't always the safest or smartest idea. The problem is if we go "Oi, stop being unsafe," the person being unsafe just gets annoyed and thinks we're overeacting. So how do we tell someone that they're being unsafe? Zane and Adelaide have 5 easy to follow steps...
Read MoreThis week Zane has a bit of story about a school trip to the Waiouru National Army Museum. When a soldier gets injured in battle they call "Medic!" A simple way to let their fellow soldiers that they need help. But when it comes to business, what do we do when it turns to custard and someone gets hurt. Is there a business equivalent to "Medic!"?..
Read MoreThis week on Workshop Wednesday Zane and Adelaide are asking the question, "Do I look safe in this?" Check it out.
Read MoreHigh-Vis or High-Visibility is a safety feature that a lot of people use at work. The idea behind High-Vis is to simply to make you highly visible, but some people think that it's a fix all solution to lots of risks. So we thought why not make a top 10 facts list, turns out a lot of facts about high-vis are fairly useless but can be funny so here they are...
Read MoreThis week we are talking about why you should forget about the law. You might be going, "but hang on, it's the law we have to follow it, right?" Well thats true, however there are so many times that we get hung up on health and safety law that we forget to watch out for each other and actually be safe. So lets forget about it for a moment and do this instead...
Read MoreToday we have a list of the 10 Deadliest Jobs from across the world, but do the have to be deadly? Some of them you might know and some might surprise you! We discuss how jobs can be risky but don't have to be so deadly, creating simple and practical safety plans...
Read MoreThis week we are talking about things that make you go splat, focusing on radar detectors. You know those things that you put in your car which beep when police are close to your car. Apparently they are classed as safety equipment, but do they really keep us safe? Or do they help us get away with speeding and make the risk of going splat higher?...
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