During the year ending 30 June 2018, more than 11,000 children in New Zealand were abused across 14,000 individual substantiated incidences.

Managing regulatory compliance isn’t just about avoiding fines. It leads to the reduction of risks of every type including health and safety, financial, reputational and business continuity.

All paid employees and contractors who work with children for state-funded organisations in New Zealand are required to be safety checked under The Vulnerable Children Act 2014. All existing non-core children’s workers must also be safety checked.

Needlessly re-checking, re-training and re-onboarding employees and contractors is costing the mining industry millions. But there’s a better way.

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Typically, background screening is conducted at the very end of the hiring process: between the interview stage and the job offer. But why don’t organisations conduct background checks earlier? For many, the answer comes down to one factor – cost.

Finance background checks are essential in healthcare and aged care for one key reason: the vulnerability of patients under the organisations’ care. Organisations can comply with Australian laws and protect themselves by conducting employee finance/credit checks as part of their wider background checking programs. Discover the top five finance checks for the healthcare/aged care industry.

In his speech to Parliament on 10 December 2020, Minister of Defence Peter Dutton said most Aussies going about their day don’t spare much thought for our nation’s critical infrastructure. But a disruption to any of the essential services that underpin our way of life could have “catastrophic and far-reaching consequences”.

Welcome to the Great Resignation. Workers are resigning in droves, driven by burnout, a search for better pay and conditions, COVID-inspired epiphanies about work-life balance and the confidence provided by a talent shortage

The requirement for organisations to collect information about employees’ vaccination status has refocused attention on the need for privacy and security in organisational health check records.