Author: Lois
Safety in the workplace is more critical than ever, ensuring proper use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Respiratory Fit Testing is key to protecting ourselves and others. This Webinar is an opportunity to learn about new innovations and to ask questions about any concerns you may have.
Lois Eggers invited you to a Microsoft Teams Meeting:
BeAligned Webinar – PPE & Respiratory Fit Testing
Tuesday, 10 September 2024
9:30 am – 10:30 am (NZST)
Meeting link: BeAligned Webinar – PPE & Respiratory Fit Testing | Microsoft Teams | Meet-up-Join
- Contractor Management/Totika
- How prequal helps and howe it doesn’t ( some more myth busting)
- Contractor Management and pre supplier selection
- The Energy Wheel – an effective way of managing safety risk in the workplace
- Why we aren’t very good at seeing and responding to hazards in the workplace
- How to increase our awareness of hazards by utilising the energy wheel
- Practical ways to use these tools in your workplace
- How sprains and strains are creating a burden on your workers lives and business productivity
- The link between physical and mental wellbeing
- What you can do to prevent and manage sprains and strains in your business
Tickets Available https://www.eventbrite.com/e/besafe-taranaki-trust-chasnz-workshop-tickets-925443044057?aff=oddtdtcreator
In December last year Powerco had an incident, and an alert went out re scaffolding and working too close to electricity assets.
They just found out today there has been another very near miss that occurred this week outside Harvey Norman with a different set of scaffolders and roofers.
They are very concerned that our roofers and scaffolders in Taranaki are not following the proper Close Approach Consent process and it’s a matter of if, not when, someone will be killed if erecting and dismantling scaffolding near their lines without the proper processes being followed continues.
Companies bringing onto their sites roofers and scaffolders, please reiterate this alert to them and please share this message amongst our wider business community.
BeSafe Trustee Meeting 5th September 2024, venue to be advised.
Fire Safety Demo 29th January 9.00am to 11.30am by Wood Training at their BellBlock Site
BeAligned Working Group Meeting
28th August 8am – 9.00am via Teams
Invite: The true state and cost of New Zealand’s health and safety performance
with economist Shamubeel Eaqub
Kia ora All
I am pleased to invite you to our New Plymouth Forum to hear the insights from our inaugural State of a Thriving Nation report.
This report will be released in late August, and will help us to understand the state of the country’s health, safety and wellbeing performance – in context of the current economic cycle and international comparisons.
We have engaged economist Shamubeel Eaqub to pull this together, considering health and safety leadership practices and how they impact on business decisions, the economic cycle, and the upcoming general election.
Join Shamubeel and myself to hear the insights from this report, the cost of our health and safety performance to the New Zealand economy, and the work government, regulators and business leaders need to do to improve outcomes for our people, businesses and economy.
Thank you to EMA Auckland, Silver Fern Farms, Nelson Chamber of Commerce, BeSafe Taranaki, Port of Tauranga, H.W. Richardson, and Chapman Tripp for hosting these events with the Forum.
New Plymouth – Friday 13 October
11am-1pm
Novotel, Cnr of Hobson and Leach Streets, New Plymouth
https://www.forum.org.nz/events-and-courses/state-of-a-thriving-nation-forum-roadshow/.
Francios Barton
Simon Craddock joined Port Taranaki in October 2021.
He has more than 20 years experience across professional services, engineering and aviation, and has a background in corporate strategy, operations and performance improvement, having held senior management positions at Air New Zealand, and having worked at Deloitte and Fisher & Paykel Healthcare.
A chartered member of the New Zealand Institute of Directors, Simon has significant governance experience as a director of a number of companies, including Public Trust, WRAL Group (Hamilton Airport), Sounds Air Group, and Airwork Holdings Limited.
Tom Boon has been a part of the New Zealand forest industry for over 25 years. He joined Taranakipine in 2007 as CEO and shareholder after a long career within corporate forestry and wood processing companies in both NZ and Australia.
•Originally staring his career as a forester, Tom after a few years became interested in the conversion of the trees he was growing into high value finished wood products. This interest has not waned, and Tom now leads Taranakipine which specialises in the manufacturing and marketing of engineered timber building products sold locally and to export customers. The most recent venture is the launch of Woodspan Ltd which supplies mass-timber engineered timber solutions directly to New Zealand’s construction industry.
•His ambition for a successful and durable NZ wood manufacturing industry has led him to be actively involved in several forestry and wood processing national organisations over the past 15 years.
For July, we have partnered with EnergyWorks to look at elements around the concept of “temporary works”. These are works that are there for a temporary duration (e.g. scaffolding, rigging, piping, hoses, buildings) that often are in place to enable permanent works to be done.
Temporary Works often don’t need to meet industry standard and code, but regrettably still follow the basic laws of physics, and as such often require their own specific risk assessment and dedicated controls. Often, temporary can become permanent.
This presentation shows examples of temporary works. Use it to challenge what works you have in your own business that are considered temporary, what standards and codes they are managed under, and whether or not they have snuck across to being permanent.
Many thanks to Geoff Bourke and his team for this contribution
Novotel Hotel – 15th June 2023
7.00am – 7.30am Coffee & Scones
7.30am – 9.00am Moni Hogg
Hosted by Todd Energy
Site Tour on 21/6/23 at their McKee Site 8.00am
People may want to car pool as you need to allow 50 minutes to get to site with current roadworks. Please let me know if you would like to car pool and I will organise accordingly.
The address is 1334 Otararoa Road, Tikorangi
Please travel via Princess St in Waitara, then Inland Road North, then Otaraoa Road
The Facility is located in Section 5 of the map, in yellow.
We encourage following the speed limit at all times, including corner speed limits.
There are a couple of corners which have caught drivers out of the years!
There is ample parking in the carpark over the road from the facility.
If anyone has mobility issues we can organise carparking at the top carpark, on the same level has the facility.
You’re invited to join a Microsoft Teams meeting
Title: Powerco – keeping your workers safe
Time: Thursday, 23 February 2023 9:30:00 am New Zealand Daylight Time
Join on your computer or mobile app
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Leading Wellbeing: Mindset and practices
Dr Hillary Bennett will be presenting around how our leaders/managers influence the culture of psychological safety in their teams supporting people to thrive at work
We had an amazing couple of hours touring the working site at Dialog Fitzroy on Wednesday. Most certainly we all came away with a much better appreciation of the absolute hard work that goes into creating all those pipes we see around our industrial sites. The Dialog Fitzroy Production Planners must be on the go 24/7! Thank you, Richard Ellis, for an illuminating morning.
Men’s Health
Our presentation for November is on Men’s Health, after looking at the statistics, (NZ Medical Journal) we have found there is very little research going on in this area, for every $1.00 spent on women’s, we spend .06 cents on men’s.
Our business community have the majority of our men at their place of work, so the challenge is going out to them to see what they can introduce to help their men. We would like to share the idea’s amongst our business community, and hopefully we are not just talking about something for the month of November, but something that will be brought in and kept as part of their Company’s culture.
We sincerely hope our business community will take up this challenge and help give their men tools that will help them lead a healthier and happier lifestyle. We always say our business’s are our people…..
On the 23rd November there will be a site visit to Dialog Fitzroy. This will start with a short meeting, with coffee, ( we will have facilities that people can login to this meeting) followed by a tour of the working site. We will have the opportunity to search for hazards/risks that may not already be controlled. Hosted by Richard Ellis
Please wear your PPE..
Geoff Bourke is hosting a tour of his working site on the 21st March 2023, all members of our Beligned Working Group are very welcome. We will have a short meeting prior, then a tour with the challenge of finding any hazards/risks that are not already monitored. “A fresh set of eyes”
https://www.mbie.govt.nz/dmsdocument/15569-health-and-safety-at-work-reform-pdf
The Government has announced changes to a range of outdated,
complex and incomplete health and safety requirements. New health
and safety regulations will provide more clarity and certainty for
businesses and better safety and health for workers.
During the public consultation, many stakeholders supported changing the regulations that
apply to plant and structures and wanted greater clarity and certainty. The changes have been
designed to ensure the rules are clear, effective, flexible, durable and proportionate, making it
easier for businesses to manage risks, and better ensure people come home from work safe
and healthy.
In this Webinar, BeSafe Taranaki is going to explore the difficulties that we all face when our Management of Change (MOC) fails. The reasons behind why we have failures in this area and tools that we can bring onboard that can help mitigate these risks.
We have 3 presenters that will talk about what has happened in their workplaces, the reasons why the incidents happened and learned outcomes.
Justine Peterson will carry this forward by providing some tools that we can take onboard and use breakout rooms, so we are all able to discuss and put our ideas forward.
This is a virtual session of Responding to Omicron – lessons from Australia, and how NZ organisations are preparing. Huge thanks once again to Dr Ian Norton, Wendi Croft and Darren Evans for sharing their insights, and to HASANZ for their support of the GM Safety Forum.
The recording of the session is now available here: https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/M2vP1X1S19OkNjZu-3banV6p917Oy3186s-mSxQBtyYgVPkGOJ8LfdZKhIe4S2ih.G3NTitCqR-soBbiE (Passcode: !MD1M2$.)
The Living with Covid Principles which the GM Safety Forum has published with Ministry of Health endorsement is also available online – a great resource: https://www.hasanz.org.nz/gm-safety-forum–living-with-covid-principles/
Cutting through the COVID noise – focusing on what matters
This informal and interactive session is an opportunity to hear how various business leaders across NZ and in Taranaki are making sense of the current Omicron surge.
Business Leaders’ Health and Safety Forum Executive Director Francois Barton will share perspectives from NZ and Australian leaders on how businesses are preparing and responding to increasing rates of positive cases. You will also hear how local Taranaki businesses are supporting their people whilst keeping their businesses operating.
Omicron marks a transition from an exclusive public health crisis, to a health-induced business continuity challenge. This shift is critical to grasp for how we communicate and assure our workers, their families as well as our clients and suppliers.
Please review the invitation as there are links to some pre reading
You’re invited to join a Microsoft Teams meeting
Title: Covid Presentation – Francois Barton – Richard Ellis – National Road Carriers
Time: Tuesday 1st March 10:30:00 am New Zealand Daylight Time
Join on your computer or mobile app
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Restricted Work Injury: Pain below shoulder blade
This forum is for our member companies on the 2nd December and 7.30am – if you have not received you invite please contact besafe@besafe.org.nz
Please be aware that this video goes for approximately 55 minutes, so allow time to see it in its entirety.