11 July 2025

Guidance boosts safety with transport trailers

New guidance is plugging a critical gap for businesses which use transport trailers to shift heavy machinery, thanks to an agreement overseen by WorkSafe New Zealand.

09 July 2025

Penalties rise over conveyor belt deaths

Courts have imposed more than $800,000 in penalties since mid-March, in response to workers being killed on unsafe conveyor belts in the manufacturing industry.

04 July 2025

Survivors recount toxic gas ordeal at landfill pit

As a WorkSafe prosecution comes to a close, two workers overcome by fumes from a toxic gas pit have for the first time told of their experience of narrowly dodging death.