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Colmar Brunton |
Health & Safety Employee Participation |
Research into Employee Participation in the ongoing processes for the improvement of health and safety in their workplace. More |
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Department of Labour |
Health and Safety Reporting in the Annual Reports of New Zealand''s 100 Largest Employers |
This report details the findings of an ‘iterative stock-take’ study of the provision of health and safety information in the annual reports of New Zealand’s largest companies (using Full Time Equivalent Employee numbers supplied by ACC). It also includes limited information on the frequency, but not the quality, of environmental and social impact monitoring. More |
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K Wong, D McLean, A Eng, A `t Mannetje, S Cheng, N Pearce, C Walls and E Dryson |
Health Outcomes in Former New Zealand Timber Workers Exposed To Pentachlorophenal (PCP) |
Concerns remain about chronic health problems experienced by former timber workers who were exposed to pentachlorophenol (PCP) when it was used as an anti-sapstain fungicide treatment in saw mills. The Health Research Council, on behalf of the Department of Labour, issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a research project aimed at clarifying whether the health effects were real and whether they were associated with the PCP exposure. The Centre for Public Health Research was subsequently awarded a contract to conduct: (i) an historical cohort study of mortality (deaths); and (ii) a cross-sectional morbidity survey of current health problems in a randomly selected sample of former sawmill workers from the cohort study. The latter survey included: (iii) the collection of serum samples for dioxin testing. More |
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Dave Mare and Steven Stillman |
Housing Markets and Migration: Evidence from New Zealand |
This paper investigates the relationship between changes in population size and housing sale prices and rents in local areas. Population change is broken down into new immigrants, New Zealanders returning from abroad and New Zealanders and previous immigrants moving from other regions within New Zealand. Data is combined from the 1986 to 2006 censuses, Quotable Value New Zealand and the Department of Building and Housing. |
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Martin Perry, C Massey and F Lamm |
How Health and Safety Makes Good Business Sense - A Summary of Research Findings |
The department commissioned this research to investigate whether investment in health and safety positively affects business performance and productivity. More |
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Department of Labour |
Human Capability - A framework for analysis |
The Human Capability Framework describes a broad view of the development of human resources, their use in various activities or spheres and their contribution to advancing wellbeing. |
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NZ Immigration Service |
Humanitarian Category Circumstances |
The main objectives of this quantitative project were to determine the incidence of the various types of serious harm, the incidence of the causes of serious harm and the ways applicants and sponsors were related to one another. More |
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