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The New Zealand Health and Safety System in 2024
Get PDFWelcome to the second edition of the New Zealand Journal of Health and Safety Practice. The first edition explored issues relevant to health and safety practice in 2024. This edition’s theme is the New Zealand workplace health and safety system. It appears as a response to the Coalition Government’s proposed “Reform [of] health and safety law and regulation” (Luxon & Seymour, 2023, p. 5). This has led to a “Major health and safety consultation” (Van Velden, 2024)
Introducing Poesie scelte (2003-2021) by Edoardo Olmi: translation with commentary of ‘un anno e sedici mesi’, ‘poesia elbana’ and ‘Ulisse’
Get PDFPoesie scelte (2003-2021) by Affluenti author Edoardo Olmi, published by Edizioni Ensemble, Florence, in September 2023, comprises some of the most crucial poems from three previously awarded collections: Il porcospino in pegaso (Premio Carver 2011), R:exist-stance (Premio Nabokov, 2017) and Stagioni scalene (Premio Il Delfino, 2021). Olmi’s poems are witty games challenging the structures of our language and psyche, while seeking free ways to create poetry – poetry meant in the ancient Greek etymology of poiesis, or else the ability to shape and inhabit new worlds through words. One of the main textual features of the collection is anarchy, especially expressed through layout and punctuation: the refusal of the capital letter after a full stop is inspired to the beat experiments, as the author pointed out, and to the ‘anarchic’ concept that no letter is more important than another
Beyond Control Towers, Vending Machines, Networks and Platforms towards more dynamic, living metaphors for governance
Get PDFMetaphors affect how humans perceive and interact with reality, not least in governments, so our metaphors for government and governance matter. In this article, early metaphors such as government as Leviathan, machine, control tower and vending machine are shown to be limited, as are their replacements, like government as network and government as platform. Instead, the article suggests conceptualising government and governance as a ‘moral ecology’, to do justice to the complex and evolving roles of public sectors and public officials amid global turbulence and increasingly challenging domestic circumstances
Too Many Cows? An exploration of relationships between livestock density and river water quality in Aotearoa New Zealand
Get PDFIntensive cattle farming is a major driver of freshwater pollution in Aotearoa New Zealand, yet research on the link between cattle intensity and river water quality is limited. This exploratory study investigated relationships between livestock intensity and freshwater indicators – nitrates and macroinvertebrates. We found that higher dairy stocking rates and total cattle numbers are linked to increased nitrate pollution at regional and district levels, with no significant correlations for beef cattle or MCI (macroinvertebrate community index) scores. Our findings underscore an urgent need for further research, particularly at the catchment level, to inform farm management plans and freshwater policy
E.163 1945 "Emergency Standard Specification for Dwellinghouse Construction" – a forgotten ancestor
No full textThe outbreak of World War II led to a focus on the most efficient use of materials within New Zealand. In 1944 the New Zealand Standards Council was requested to develop an "Emergency Standard Specification for Dwellinghouse Construction." Unlike NZSS 95 "New Zealand Standard Model Building By‐Law" which was limited to structural stability, public health and other council‐controlled issues, this new specification (NZSS E.163) could deal with materials and construction methods. Published in January 1945, only two copies appear extant – a partial copy in Wellington City Archives and a full copy in Auckland City Archives, although the Committee minutes are held in Archives New Zealand.
As well as dealing with house construction (foundations, concrete work, carpentry, etc.) it deals with internal finishing (solid‐ and fibrous‐plaster, terrazzo, painting and paperhanging, etc.) and services (plumbing, drainage and electrical). E.163 was promoted as being of real benefit to occupants (owners or tenants) as they could be assured as to "essential considerations relating to materials, workmanship, and design" – placing quality, not speed at the heart of the then Government's actions. The paper compares the requirements of E.163 with the relevant parts of NZSS95, as well as exploring its relationship to NZS 3604 "Code of Practice for Light Timber Frame Buildings Not Requiring Specific Design" and modern model specifications
Enhancing Climate Decision Making: Insights from early adopters of climate risk disclosure
Get PDFThis article investigates the early implementation of the Aotearoa New Zealand Climate Standards, the world’s first mandatory climate-related disclosure regime, and its influence on New Zealand business practices. Through interviews with 20 organisations, the study explores challenges and opportunities associated with the new disclosure requirements. Findings range from viewing disclosures as compliance to recognising the strategic value. Key needs include enhanced policy support, data access and capacity building to ensure disclosures contribute meaningfully to New Zealand’s climate goals. The insights provide a foundation for refining the Aotearoa New Zealand Climate Standards and offer broader lessons for the global adoption of climate risk disclosure standards
From Field to Table: The Pukekohe Dehydration Factory in the 1940s
Get PDFIn August 1943, the New Zealand Governmentʹs Internal Marketing Division announced plans to construct a vegetable dehydration factory in Pukekohe, on the outskirts of southern Auckland. The factory was built with urgency, to dehydrate, quick‐freeze, can and cool store large quantities of vegetables to assist in providing food for United States troops, stationed in the Pacific. The factory consisted of a large, long main factory building, a boiler house and machine shop, a cafeteria, a chemical building, a vinery building, alaboratory, and an administration block. It incorporated the most modern equipment and processing methods of the time, with much of the machinery supplied from the United States. To supply the large quantities of vegetables required under direction from the Department of Agriculture, produce was grown through a combination of state gardens and commercial market gardeners. To meet the demand, the factory operated long hours, becoming a significant local employer, particularly for women. Workers were also deployed from further afield to achieve the necessary processing outputs. This paper examines the development and operation of the Pukekohe Dehydration Factory in the 1940s, its role in supporting the war effort during the Second World War, and its utilisation throughout the remainder of the decade
A Street of Seedsmen: Plant Retailers in Victoria Avenue, Whanganui
Get PDFIn the 1940s, seedsmen, florists and other plant retailers were generally located on main streets of towns and cities. This paper looks at Whanganui as a case study of the relationships between plant retailers and the landscape, people and capital. The challenges of researching businesses and quantitative history are woven throughout
The role of effective strategic leadership in transforming New Zealand's work health and safety system
Get PDFHard working New Zealanders continue to die in New Zealand workplaces more than a decade after the Independent Taskforce on Workplace Health and Safety told us that all injuries and deaths in New Zealand workplaces are preventable. The single critical factor behind New Zealand’s poor workplace health and safety record is the gap in the provision of effective strategic leadership. Closing that fundamental gap will require the Minister who is for the time being responsible for the administration of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 to take accountability for the performance of the work health and safety system in meeting set harm prevention targets, and be answerable to the Prime Minister. To have any chance of upholding that accountability the Minister must lead effectively and strategically. To achieve that, the Minister’s strategic advisers must acquire many new insights generated from new thinking, theories, and models for aiding harm prevention such as the Chain of Interventions Model and the Risk Management Compliance Continuum Model
It’s all rubbish: Notes on OHS in the waste industry
Get PDFNote to readers: this paper has not been reviewed or revised since it was prepared in 2021 in preparation for a webinar for the New Zealand Institute of Safety Management.
The objectives of this background note are to:
(1) complement a continuing professional development webinar for NZISM members
(2) provide a preliminary research agenda for Victoria University of Wellington students carrying out a research project in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Master's of Health (Workplace Health and Safety), providing research-based documents and legal decisions.
This work is incomplete and requires further investigation of the waste industry in New Zealand and overseas trends. With one exception, special wastes and hazardous substances have not been included
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