Jul 26, 2018 | Healthier NZers
NZFGC member companies undertake a demonstrable and genuine commitment to the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders NZFGC is actively engaged in promoting and supporting the work by members to deliver health & wellness across the New Zealand population. Many of...
Jul 24, 2018 | Country of origin labelling, Issues
FGC supports a voluntary approach to country of origin labelling. FGC has had no feedback on suggestions for change from members, and no member in recent memory has suggested more regulation is needed in this area. Calls to members’ customer call centres on this issue...
Jul 20, 2018 | Health & Safety
Foodstuffs North Island has developed and shared a compelling safety campaign around the use of forklifts in and around its stores. It features a series of attractive and easy-to-understand graphics which cover nine forklift operations, ranging from loading curtain...
Jul 20, 2018 | Health & Safety
The food and beverage manufacturing industry is one of three industries where more harm and injury is occurring than in manufacturing in general, says WorkSafe NZ. The other two are the metal and wood industries. WorkSafe has now updated and practical advice for safe...
Jul 20, 2018 | Health & Safety
FGC’s Industry Relations Safety Sub-Committee has received some very useful information and brochures on in-store safety courtesy of Foodstuffs Wellington. They related to racking when stores are open and closed, loading and unloading trucks, and general forklift...
Jul 20, 2018 | Health & Safety
The FGC Safe In-Store Pass is an industry-designed online course aimed at improving the safety of supplier representatives working in a retail store. It is the result of a collaborative effort between retailers and the Food & Grocery Council to deliver time- and...
Jul 20, 2018 | Health & Safety
The FMCG industry has an aim of zero harm, and FGC backs this 100 per cent. The Department of Labour produces a lot of material around workplace safety and has recently updated is resource around stacking and storage, some of it in response to the Christchurch...
