Poutasi said the school had offered full cooperation and involvement with WorkSafe processes, and thanked staff who raised concerns about the school. “WorkSafe would like to commend the workers who raised concerns and acknowledge how their actions have led St Peter’s School Cambridge to recognise an issue and take positive steps to look after the health and safety of their staff,” he said.
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WorkSafe commended St Peter’s workers who raised concerns about staff wellbeing. “The school’s Board of Trustees has implemented a number of improvements including new policies and procedures relating to staff wellbeing. These improvements have satisfied WorkSafe that staff wellbeing will be looked after, and no further action or involvement is needed from WorkSafe.”
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Monday, 19 July 2021, 1:25 pm
The county’s top school-age karters proved their mettle
as torrential rain showers lashed the Tokoroa venue hosting
this year’s KartSport New Zealand McFall Fuel National
Schools’ Championship meeting on Saturday.
Braving
what one long term observer of the sport described as
‘probably the worst conditions I have ever seen at a kart
race meeting, with very high winds and horizontal rain for
most of the day,’ the 103 karters who had entered this
year’s event simply knuckled down and got on with
representing their school.
At one stage racing was
suspended until conditions improved, but bar the resulting
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The attack has been attributed to the REvil ransomware gang. (File photo) REvil usually sets up anonymous chat rooms through the Tor server, through which they deliver threats and demand ransom payments, which often increase the longer companies or organisations do not pay. Callow said it was unlikely that a state or security agency had disabled the portal as a means of stopping hackers being able to talk to their victims. “REvil may have intentionally disabled access, or they may have made a coding mistake. It’s impossible to say,” he said. “But REvil is uncontactable.” The issue would be a problem for any victims trying to negotiate or pay, with there being a cost for every hour companies or organisations were unable to access their systems, Callow said.
But it advised on Monday that only two of the schools had definitely been impacted and that two were in the clear. The situation of the other seven was unclear as they had switched off their systems before any evidence of a breach. One victims is known to include St Peter’s School in Cambridge. The attacks, which are believed to have impacted more than 1000 organisations worldwide, occurred after a software tool called VSA provided by Florida-based IT company Kaseya was compromised. The software tool is designed to help a type of IT services firm, often referred to as a “managed services provider”, distribute software patches to their customers to keep their software up-to-date and secure.