How to notify us over the holiday period.
Notifications  
If someone has been seriously injured, become seriously ill, or died as a result of work – phone us on 0800 030 040 straight away. We have staff available to respond to these 24/7.
If you’re not sure what a notifiable event is, including your obligation to hold a scene, visit What events need to be notified?
Notifications made through our online form won't be monitored between 12pm on Tuesday 24 December 2024 and 8.30am on Monday 6 January 2025.
If you’re not sure if you need to notify us, use our online notification system and we’ll respond to you after 6 January 2025.
Health and safety concerns
If you have a health and safety concern that isn’t urgent, use our online form and we’ll respond to you after 6 January 2025.
Raise a health or safety concern
General enquiries
General enquiries made by phone or email after 12pm on Tuesday 24 December will be responded to from Monday 6 January 2025. This does not apply to notifications made by phone on 0800 030 040.
We wish you a safe and relaxing holiday.
WorkSafe has a variety of key operational activities and priorities within the petroleum sector.
Key operational activities
Driving improvements in industry major hazard safety performance through proactive regulatory interventions such as:
- Risk-based inspection of operations to determine the adequacy of management systems. The inspection considers relevant risk factors, performance and compliance history, current industry incident trends, and any relevant findings from previous inspections.
- Investigating accidents and process safety incidents
- Enforcement of statutory duties and requirements
- Working with relevant stakeholders to identify, define, document and promote good practice in the assessment and management of major hazards in the upstream petroleum sector.
Current priorities:
- Developing inspectorate capability
- Developing information infrastructure to support regulatory activities
- Creating policies and procedures that will allow transparent and consistent administration of legislation
- Producing guidance for employers and other duty holders on their reporting obligations under health and safety law.
- Preparation of decommissioning legislation
- Working with International Petroleum Offshore Regulators on Asset Integrity.
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