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Site Safe New Zealand chief executive Brett Murray.

Setting up for success with a solid foundation for well-being

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Creating a healthy workplace starts with a solid foundation for well-being — the overall physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social health of people. In recent...
New Zealand’s only national fabricator AGB Stone has called on industry to follow suit in the fight against silicosis.

Stone benchtop fabricator to ban high-silica stone

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New Zealand’s largest and only national stone benchtop fabricator says it is banning engineered stone that contains more than 40% silica as part of...
Site Safe Mental Health First Aid in Construction course

Mental Health First Aid in Construction course working to raise mental health awareness

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By Site Safe communications advisor Jonathan Guildford Mental health issues are rampant in the construction industry, with the sector losing one person on average a...

Foundation Passport training courses updated

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By Site Safe communications advisor Jonathan Guildford Site Safe is committed to ensuring Kiwi workers return home to their whanau at the end of each...

Tools Down aims to halve tradie suicides

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A new mental health awareness platform has launched to raise awareness of mental ill health and the suicide rate among Kiwi tradies. Tools Down was started...

Study investigates strategies to deal with stress in construction

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An industry study conducted by Site Safe and Massey University’s School of Built Environment has investigated the negative effects of work-related stress on productivity,...

NZ safety awards — turning tragedy into positivity

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The first-ever three-way win at the Site Safe Construction Health, Safety and Wellbeing Awards got a huge round of applause from more than 400...

Health and safety champions in running for top awards

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The finalists in the annual Site Safe Construction Health and Safety Awards are a broad cross section of excellent safety personnel, innovative ideas and...

Heights and health hazards — the perils faced by most tradies

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Heights, because bad things can happen in an instant. Health hazards, because they can build up over time but end up just as damaging. Both...

Industry suicide report highlights need for more effective support and prevention

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The release last month of a report into suicides of construction industry workers has highlighted the need for all parts of the industry to...