Workplace Productivity – Switzer Rest Home
The challenges facing the Switzer Home over the years have included retaining and recruitment of staff, managing health and safety, finding suppliers of equipment in a rural location, and responding to growth in the Far North region and the services they provide through better organisation of work
Duration : 0:9:41
Finch Farm – Health and Safety Makes Good Business Sense
Many industries are taking on a more holistic approach to health and safety in the workplace and seeing the benefits in increased productivity, greater staff loyalty and reduced injury rates.
Farming has long been recognised as a hazard-rich occupation where a sound approach to health and safety can make a real difference to productivity and employee satisfaction.
Hayden and Rachael Finch are 50/50 sharemilkers on a 191-hectare dairy farm near Rakaia in Canterbury, milking 725 cows through a 40-bail rotary shed. They have been on the property since 2004 and have signed up for another three seasons, with a plan to buy their own farm after that. They live on the farm with their two young children and employ three full-time staff.
Duration : 0:9:34
Workplace productivity – Coll Electrical
Coll Electrical is a company specialising in high quality electrical work, that has grown in size and profits after they developed the internal leadership team.
Duration : 0:8:30
Workplace productivity – Cottonsoft
Cottonsoft a tissue manufacturer, involved staff in improving work practises and identifying how product output could be improved.
Duration : 0:7:52
Workplace Productivity – Furnware Ltd.
Furnware has become a world leader in ergonomic school furniture after it invested in research and design to develop new high value products.
Duration : 0:9:51
Workplace Productivity – Maintain NZ
MaintainNZ, a National Centre of Maintenance Excellence, in Kawerau is a partnership initiative which has been established to lift manufacturing productivity levels across New Zealand’s major industries.
Duration : 0:9:22
Workplace Productivity – James Cook Hotel
The core challenge for the James Cook Hotel Grand Chancellor in Wellington has been staff retention which is a common issue in the hospitality industry
Duration : 0:9:56
Workplace Productivity – Outward Bound
Outward Bound is the leading organisation in New Zealand for showing people their full potential through challenge and adventure in the outdoors. It was established in 1962 and still operates from the original location, Anakiwa, in the Marlborough Sounds.
Anakiwa, near Picton, has been described as the most perfectly situated Outward Bound school in the world. The natural timbered buildings of the facilities merge gracefully into the curve of the bay and are backed by native bush.
Hahn was an educator. In his words: “We are all better than we know. If only we can come to discover this, we may never again settle for anything less.”
Duration : 0:7:40
Workplace Productivity – DoL H&S Inspector
The Department implemented a mobile tool solution as part of a strategy to facilitate better co-ordination and encourage understanding and knowledge of each other’s work between the different areas of the organisation.
Duration : 0:7:52
Workplace Productivity – Goodtime Foods
The Goodtime production and management team represent over 80 years of baking industry experience and know how – gained from working in a variety of companies both in New Zealand and overseas.
This team has been at the centre of Goodtime’s progressive development, responsible for many of the innovative manufacturing systems that have become synonymous with Goodtime.
Goodtime pioneered the development of a bakery manufacturing process that could produce freshly baked products every day and have them delivered in specially designed temperature-controlled vehicles to maintain factory-freshness to customers throughout the country.
And to check, computerised sensors frequently travel with our products to ensure that no temperature fluctuations take place which may be detrimental to freshness and quality.
Goodtime is a company that not only complies with food regulations but is constantly working on ways to exceed them. Goodtime has been an Agriquality approved supplier since 1991, have its own in-house food safety programme, and applies additional hygiene-control standards and monitoring to ensure its product quality is never compromised.
Duration : 0:4:26