July 2024 In this Issue Charter Update July 2024 View in browser July 2024 Newsletter In the big scheme of things, an organisation like the Safety Charter is somewhat small potatoes. We are a regional entity, set up for a specific purpose, and the period for that purpose has come and gone. There are now […]
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June 2024 In this Issue Charter Update June 2024 View in browser June 2024 Newsletter Global Trends in Workplace Health and Safety The Charter is hosting ‘The Future of Health and Safety’ conference in July this year, and I was keen to explore how the Charter’s vision aligns with what the rest of the world […]
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May 2024 In this Issue Charter Update May 2024 View in browser April 2024 Newsletter Risk Assessments for town and country: …. staying in your lane. I have had a couple of general observations this month. The first was around a recent surfing accident. I was paddling out for the first ride of the day; […]
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March 2024 In this Issue Charter Update March 2024 View in browser March 2024 Newsletter Health and safety in the news Health and Safety has been in the news media a lot lately. The big story is the sentencing of the companies who either plead guilty or were found guilty of health and safety breaches […]
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february 2024 In this issue Charter Update February 2024 View in browser February 2024 Newsletter Health and safety in the holidays…. During the Christmas break I had the opportunity to do a real kiwi boys own adventure, a muster on a high-country station. This involved a mob of 300 sheep, 3 horses, 6 dogs, and […]
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December 2023 In this Issue Charter Update December 2023 View in browser December ’23 Newsletter SME’s: Understanding the Risk The Safety Charter is unique among the health and safety community in that we engage with the industry both horizontally and vertically. We connect with and get feedback from all strata’s and have witnessed first-hand the […]
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october 2023 In this Issue Charter Update October2023 View in browser September ’23 Newsletter The future of Health and Safety? Compliance Versus Culture There have been a few events recently which have impacted the health and safety industry in New Zealand and given me cause to reflect on where the industry is currently at and […]
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September 2023 In this Issue. Charter Update September 2023 View in browser September ’23 Newsletter What the Heck is HECA? A different way of thinking……. Most organisation’s that I know of spend a lot of time examining measures of health and safety performance. The most common can be the recordable injury rate, or loss time […]
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August 2023 In this Issue: Charter Update August 2023 View in browser August ’23 Newsletter The power of positive thinking At the recent Safety Charter wellbeing event run by Kevin Hurl, there were quite a few important takeaways. The main one for me was on our human thought processes, and how our thoughts have a […]
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July 2023 In this Issue Charter Update July 2023 View in browser July ’23 Newsletter Its a wrap…… hightlighs from the Mentally Safe Work Conference Wow, what a conference! The Safety Charter’s Mentally Safe Work Conference was a fantastic mix of academic research, regulator perspective, interesting and innovative case studies, and legal and technological responses […]
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June 2023 In this issue Charter Update June 2023 View in browser June ’23 Newsletter Time to celebrate… We can celebrate many things in our lives. We all have significant events or personal achievements that we want to mark as being special and worthy of recognition. We celebrate many anniversaries, including our own birthdays, weddings, […]
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May 2023 Issue In this issue: Charter Update May 2023 View in browser May ’23 Newsletter Artificial Intelligence and Health and Safety As a recent theoretical exercise, I asked ChatBot GTP to write a health and safety management plan for the Canterbury Safety Charter. This seemed a perfectly reasonable request, as a lot of information […]
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Reminder to register for the Safety Charter’s upcoming workshop and conference. Workshop – An introduction into leading team safely View in browser April 2023 AN INTRODUCTION INTO LEADING TEAMS SAFELY An Interactive Workshop The Safety Charter and Halo Training invite you to attend our interactive workshop. Halo Training focuses on the human side of leadership […]
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April 2023 In this issue Charter Update April 2023 View in browser April ’23 Newsletter All Reasonably Practicable Steps The Health and Safety at Work Act (2015) can be summarized in a couple of key sentences. The first one goes something like this. “Everyone in an organization is required to take a risk-based approach to […]
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March 2023 In this edition Charter Update March 2023 View in browser March ’23 Newsletter Lessons from a catastrophe The damage done by Cyclone Gabrielle has been significant and demonstrates once again how the power of nature far surpasses that of humanity. Our time scale does not compare with that of the planet, where mountain […]
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February 2023 In this Issue Charter Update February 2023 View in browser February ’23 Newsletter The Challenges of ‘mentally safe work’ The Health and Safety at Work Act (2015) runs to 193 pages, and with approximately 400 words per page, there is a total of around 50,000 words. And yet the word ‘mental’, meaning psychological, […]