Large NZ organisations letting lax labour providers shirk health & safety compliance - AWF chair

Large NZ organisations letting lax labour providers shirk health & safety compliance - AWF chair
Paul McBeth
By Paul McBeth July 31 (BusinessDesk) - AWF Madison chair Ross Keenan says efforts to improve the nation's health and safety record is being undermined by large local organisations using labour providers who shirk their compliance obligations.  Keenan said complying with the stricter health and safety rules is "very expensive but necessary", and that AWF's incident rate was very good by any measure. At today's annual meeting in Auckland, he elaborated on comments in the company's annual report questioning whether the sector was being v...

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