ISO/IEC Guide 14:2018 Products and related services – Information for consumers has been updated to reflect changes in product labelling technology and the needs of a wider audience. The guide is useful for those involved in product labelling, like product designers, manufacturers, technical writers, and marketers.
If you’re a builder, plumber, electrician, or painter, WorkSafe has launched four new guides so you can quickly understand your responsibilities and how to manage risks around working with or near asbestos.
ISO 45001:2018 Occupational health and safety management systems – Requirements with guidance for use is to be identically adopted in New Zealand. The standard can help New Zealand businesses provide a framework to improve employee safety, reduce workplace risks, and create better, safer working conditions. The draft version of the standard, with the designation DZ ISO 45001:2018, is now available for public comment.
Hot on the heels of the world’s first international standard for occupational health and safety comes a new technical specification to ensure those auditing it are up to scratch. ISO/IEC TS 17021-10:2018 defines the skills and knowledge that audit and certification bodies need when they are auditing organisations that have implemented the health and safety standard ISO 45001:2018.
If you’re a builder, plumber, electrician, or painter, WorkSafe has launched four new guides so you can quickly understand your responsibilities and how to manage risks around working with or near asbestos.
ISO/IEC Guide 14:2018 Products and related services – Information for consumers has been updated to reflect changes in product labelling technology and the needs of a wider audience. The guide is useful for those involved in product labelling, like product designers, manufacturers, technical writers, and marketers.
ISO 45001:2018 Occupational health and safety management systems – Requirements with guidance for use is to be identically adopted in New Zealand. The standard can help New Zealand businesses provide a framework to improve employee safety, reduce workplace risks, and create better, safer working conditions. The draft version of the standard, with the designation DZ ISO 45001:2018, is now available for public comment.
Counterfeit goods are nothing new, but with globalisation, the internet, and increased movement of goods the fakes business is booming. From fake versions of widely sold pharmaceutical brands to phony designer watches and handbags, counterfeit has grown into a thriving underground economy.
There are thousands of different consumer products on the market and almost daily we see new products being launched. How does a business ensure their products are safe, especially if there are no regulations to help provide some guidance?
WorkSafe has started a major drive to reduce the number of injuries and fatalities involving vehicles on farms. WorkSafe will work with the sector on new and improved guidance, standards, and training to help farmers make the right decisions.
ISO 45001 provides requirements and guidance for an effective occupational health and safety management system. The standard requires health and safety aspects to be part of an overall management system and no longer just an added extra.
Sunscreen producer Johnson & Johnson has agreed to only sell sunscreen products that meet the joint Australian/New Zealand standards, after a complaint by Consumer NZ and an investigation by the Commerce Commission.
A new standard will help to reduce the risk of a consumer being injured by unsafe or dangerous products. NZS ISO 10377:2017 Consumer product safety – Guidelines for suppliers provides guidance and tools to identify, assess, eliminate, or reduce potential safety risks, before a product enters the market.
Standards for consumer safety have been developed with the aim of ensuring that products made, or imported, into New Zealand are safe and reliable. The reassurance provided by standards covers hundreds of products for work and play. These include dishwashers, garden hoses, fire protective clothing, and cycle helmets.
Promotes safe work practices and prevents unnecessary exposure of persons working in laboratories containing sources of ionizing radiation. This standard does not include non-ionizing radiation. It was prepared after consideration of the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA), Fundamentals for Protection Against Ionising Radiation RPS F1 (2014) and Code for Radiation Protection in Planned Exposure Situations RPS C1 (2016), the most recent recommendations of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
View product pageSets out the requirements for the design, manufacture, installation, re-positioning and dismantling of perimeter protection screens of height 1 m and above that are to be attached to formwork or to the permanent structure to provide edge protection for personnel and to minimize falling objects during construction.
View product pageSpecifies additional requirements to be used in conjunction with AS/NZS ISO 9606.1 for qualification testing of welders for fusion welding of steels, which are for certain unique Australian and New Zealand conditions. For all other situations, the requirements of AS/NZS ISO 9606.1 apply. Appendix A provides guidance on the application of AS/NZS ISO 9606.1 in relation to this Standard. This Standard applies to welding processes including fusion-welding processes that are designated as manual and mechanized welding. It does not cover fully automated welding processes, nor does it deal with the certification of welders.
Supersedes AS/NZS 2980:2007
This amendment addresses small, mainly editorial, inconsistencies.
View product pageAims to improve the safety of passenger ropeways and passenger conveyors such as ski lifts, rope tows, gondolas, chairlifts, and similar devices that transport people and equipment uphill for recreational, sport, or sightseeing activities. It provides information for operators on current best practice. The standard includes the adoption of Canadian standard CSA Z98-14 with additional New Zealand-specific material in the form of four appendices covering non-destructive testing and examination standards and qualification of operators, roles and responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015, application of the Health and Safety in Employment (Pressure Equipment, Cranes, and Passenger Ropeways) Regulations 1999, and surface ropeways (fibre rope) with intermediate supports.
View product pageThe comment period closed on 16/07/2018
Comments are invited until 19/07/2018
View this draftThe comment period closed on 16/07/2018
Standards New Zealand is reviewing standards that are more than 10 years old to ensure that they are current and continue to be fit for purpose. This standard is proposed for withdrawal as it contains material that is out of date. If you wish to provide comment on this proposal to withdraw, please contact us at AgedCatalogueReview@mbie.govt.nz
This proposal is open for comment to 5 July 2018.
Superseded by AS/NZS 2980:2018
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