Articles Archive

  1. $225,000 fine near HSE maximum

    A major newspaper report on the death of a Fletcher Concrete employee has raised public awareness of management responsiveness and the price of serious breaches.
    Esera Visesio, known as “Ezra”, died at Stresscrete’s South Auckland yard when a wire rope on a gantry crane snapped, dropping the 5800kg precast concrete panel it was lifting, the Sunday Times reported in its 2300 word feature “Death of a working man” on July 8, 2007.

    11/29/2011 - 12:29

  2. Kiwibank supports 30,000 businesses

    Growth in Kiwibank now sees it service almost 30,000 SME businesses and run its own finance company.
    Kiwibank gm of business banking Peter Meggison says that in six years of operation, even during recession times, growth has been steady.

    Meggison says many plumbers and electricians have taken up Kiwibank services and infrastructure and construction contractors also have business accounts.

    Personal service and attention are important.

    11/29/2011 - 12:29

  3. What does a technical expert do?

    Answer:
    A technical expert offers an opinion, which is given to the best of his ability. However, in days when lawyers and accountants have so much force, the expert is careful to give a disclaimer.
    One such expert is Laurie Barker, the founder of the company now known as Altherm or First Aluminium.

    11/29/2011 - 12:29

  4. DoL in dock over height equipment

    Failure to regulate suspect certifications of height access machinery is putting lives at risk and threatens a recently introduced system for control, according to the Elevating Work Platform Association of New Zealand.
    In correspondence obtained by subby, EWPANZ secretary Bryan Nunweek accuses the Department of Labour of failure to act against suspect certifications and says the department has ‘deliberately misled’ the association.

    11/29/2011 - 12:29

  5. 20 years of scamming small businesses

    For more than 20 years Aucklander Ashley Guy Rhodes made money from New Zealand businesses by copying their ads from other magazines and faxing them over with a request for approval.
    Those who signed and faxed back would be billed by him, and sometimes abused and threatened with court action if they did not pay.

    11/29/2011 - 12:29