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Read about the updated timeframe for revoking 2001 notices, retaining access to gas and electrical certificates, and preventing the fatal risk of ovens tipping over.

Newsletter

Leptospirosis is the most common work-related infectious disease in New Zealand. See our updated guidance for practical suggestions to manage the risks to protect people from getting sick.

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WorkSafe is again urging the forestry sector to reflect on what more it can do to improve safety, as the details of yet another worker death emerge from a court prosecution.

Media release

Nine tonnes of badly loaded steel fell and killed a Christchurch man, in what WorkSafe New Zealand says is a stark warning to any business that uses storage racks or shelving as part of its operations.

Media release

A WorkSafe investigation is underway into a trench collapse in the Auckland suburb of Meadowbank this afternoon.

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WorkSafe has uncovered multiple failures that contributed to a teenager’s death on a school caving trip in Northland last year.

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WorkSafe has published priority plans, which will bring to life its new strategy over the next two years. WorkSafe will deliver enforcement, engagement, and permitting activities across these priority areas to maximise our influence and achieve better, more equitable outcomes.

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WorkSafe is recommending the dairy industry reassess its use of slide pulsators, following a recent death in a Waikato milking shed.

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Photovoltaic (PV) solar systems are a rapidly growing industry in New Zealand, with the installation of both grid-connected and stand-alone systems.  

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In accordance with clause 1(a) of Schedule 2 of the Legislation Act 2019, I, Kane Patena, Interim Chief Executive, WorkSafe New Zealand (WorkSafe), give notice of a proposal to incorporate the standards listed in the public notice below into a proposed safe work instrument for the purposes of Regulation 17.67(5)(j) of the Health and Safety at Work (Hazardous Substances) Regulations 2017.

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A substandard roller door installation has caught up with an Auckland business, in what WorkSafe says is a tragic consequence of poor workmanship.

Media release

WorkSafe is urging rural New Zealand to refocus on the risk of quad bike roll-overs, which have tragically killed four farmers across the country in the past three weeks.

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Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke Van Velden announced three new appointments to the Board of WorkSafe New Zealand.

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A motorcyclist is lucky to be alive after getting caught in bungy ropes strung across a public road on the West Coast, in what a Judge has called “an extremely obvious hazard”.

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Join us for an online Q&A session with our Chief Executive Steve Haszard to discuss our refreshed strategy and to answer your questions.

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WorkSafe has launched its new strategy, with a focus on making a measurable difference to the most serious harm in New Zealand workplaces.

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Courts have imposed more than half a million dollars in penalties since mid-March, in cases where workers have lost fingers on machinery that wasn’t kept safe by businesses.

Media release

WorkSafe New Zealand says urgent action is needed by the trades to take better care of apprentices, after the second court sentencing this year for a trainee killed on the job.

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WorkSafe has charged the Whangārei Boys High School Board for health and safety failures related to the death of a student a year ago.

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