Experience rating to improve workplace safety (July 2010)
Businesses will receive discounts and loadings on their ACC workplace levies from 1April next year to provide stronger incentives to improve workplace safety and to make ACC's levies fairer, ACC Minister Dr Nick Smith announced today. Read more...

Fed-up public open to fuel change
New ETS charges and images of the Gulf of Mexico oil rig catastrophe are giving impetus to the fledgling bio-fuels sector (July 2010). Read more... Source: NZ Herald

Environmental Accreditation: What's all the fuss about? (July 2010)
We hear a lot about green accreditation programmes, but what does membership to these programmes mean for your business and what are the benefits of being involved?
Read more... Source: NZ Celsias  

IcePack Cool Store Fire - Lessons for the Future (March 2010)
...The inquiry identified nine different factors, any one of which could have avoided the risks and injuries to the responding firefighters.
These were... read more...

Proposal to Change Definition of Serious Harm (December 2009)
Minister of Labour Kate Wilkinson has announced a proposal to change the definition of ‘serious harm' under the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992. Read more...

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