Working at Alert Level 3 – A COVID-19 Checklist

Working at Alert Level 3 – A COVID-19 Checklist

As New Zealand prepares to ease the lockdown, enterprises operating under COVID-19 Alert Level 3 need to work out how to do so safely. The core objective of Level 3 is to: enable more enterprises to resume, while protecting the health and safety of workers, and protecting the wider population from transmission and spread of the virus. We have..

Risk Compensation vs prudence – two sides of the same coin?

Risk Compensation vs prudence – two sides of the same coin?

Everyone was confident that ABS would make a big difference to the risk of nose-to-tail car collisions.   How wrong we were! I was initially astounded when the statistics were reported years ago: no difference in nose-to-tail crash rates. Why? “Risk compensation” the researchers said. It turns out that drivers of cars fitted with ABS were more confident of their..

Rail Risks Research Published

Rail Risks Research Published

Navigatus researched rail safety risks in New Zealand for the NZ Transport Agency to identify and provide evidence-based recommendations for prioritising rail risks. The primary purpose of the project was to provide a reliable foundation for future risk reduction activities by: carrying out research on best and current risk practice, undertaking a risk assessment to identify priority safety risks, and..