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 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.
The plans cover the sectors with highest work-related harm in Aotearoa – construction, manufacturing, forestry, and agriculture. There’s also a permitting plan covering specific high-risk work such as mining, adventure activities, and some work involving hazardous substances.
The plans guide WorkSafe’s targeted engagement and enforcement activities and are part of WorkSafe’s strategic reset. The new strategy simplifies how WorkSafe will deliver its main role, which is to influence businesses and workers to meet their health and safety responsibilities and to hold them to account if they don’t.
The strategy acknowledges WorkSafe cannot be everywhere and emphasises the importance of collaboration. WorkSafe will continue to work with partners, including industry bodies, government agencies, iwi, and unions, to understand risk and harm, measure the impact, and refine plans over time.
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