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By Daniel Taylor, head of manufacturing, NZTE It might be the one market of scale where we enjoy geographic advantage, but we still see too many New Zealand manufacturers making the mistake of assuming just because New Zealand and Australia share a common language (more or less) and a love of sport that our marketsContinueContinue reading “Australia: When differences matter”

By Stuart Robertson, partner and Victoria Bortsova, solicitor The right to sue someone must be utilised within the appropriate limitation period. Under the Limitation Act 2010 (Act) this has been standardised to no more than six years from the act or omission, being the breach. If the claimant was not initially aware of the actContinueContinue reading “Late knowledge date: when can you get an extra three years to file a claim?”

By Craig Carlyle, director at Maintenance Transformations An awkward gap exists between our health and safety responsibilities and the reality in many traditional maintenance workshops across the country. Our responsibilities extend to maintenance departments having safe work instructions for reasonably predictable maintenance tasks, and safe work tools such as JSA’s for unplanned events. The theoryContinueContinue reading “Managing maintenance safety”