What price a workplace death?
HUGH DE LACY reviews the aftermath of a series of multi-fatality workplace disasters, including Pike River, and asks if there’s one rule for private company...
Author : Charles Fairbairn
Consent issues for Gold Dredging operation
PETER OWENS reviews the trials and tribulations of a small gold dredging operation on the Clutha River in Otago. The “mini-storm in a tea cup”...
The mining gamble
LINDSAY CLARK sat in on a presentation by GEOFF LOUDON, who chairs two small Kiwi mining companies, on mining investment. Geoff Loudon is a prominent...
Pugmill Rules
ALAN TITCHALL catches up with one of the busiest quarries in the Waikato region and finds out why the pugmill could become a more a...
Understanding WorkSafe NZ
Since December 16, 2013 WorkSafe New Zealand has dealt with all workplace health and safety matters, taking over responsibility from the Health and Safety group...
Workplace Health and Safety in perspective
In today’s world of competing internet and print publishing it pays to maximise the strengths of your particular sector, and magazines have a huge advantage...