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.
Free SafePlus Online Self-Assessment Tool launches
The third part of our SafePlus programme – the free online self-assessment tool for businesses – was launched in Wellington on Thursday 6 September, by Minister Iain Lees-Galloway.
The SafePlus online tool has been developed specifically for small and medium-sized businesses that want to improve their health and safety. It helps them to self-assess their performance by asking people from all parts of the business how strongly they agree or disagree with statements about health and safety leadership, worker engagement and risk management.
From those anonymous responses, the tool:
- provides a collective, self-assessed, performance view,
- delivers action-focused improvement recommendations, and
- directs businesses to good-practice guidance and resources, to help them take action.
Businesses have a number of options to tailor their assessment and outcome priorities.
The SafePlus online tool is free to use, and your information is kept private and confidential.
The feedback we had from the organisations that trialled the tool in August was very positive, they found it easy to use, quick to set up, and useful.
The online tool is designed to complement the SafePlus Onsite Assessment and Advisory Service, and will potentially also be useful to businesses for scoping key focus areas for an onsite assessment.
You’ll find the tool and more information online at safeplus.nz(external link)
We’ll be promoting the tool to small and medium-sized businesses over the coming months, with a digital marketing campaign that incorporates brand-recognition for SafePlus.
More in this issue:
- SafePlus at HASANZ
- Spotlight on success - call out to promote success stories from businesses using SafePlus
- New resources - risk by sector
- SafePlus assessments
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