This pack supports people and businesses involved in agricultural work, including farmers, farm workers, contractors, and suppliers and installers, to understand how to apply the approved code of practice (ACOP) for Safe farm vehicle operation to their everyday work.

This pack supports agriculture businesses to understand and apply the approved code of practice (ACOP) for Roles and responsibilities in agriculture.

The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA) is New Zealand’s key work health and safety law. All work and workplaces are covered by HSWA unless they have been specifically excluded. For example, HSWA does not apply to the armed forces in certain situations.

Risks to health and safety arise from people being exposed to a hazard (a source or cause of harm). A PCBU must first try to eliminate a risk if this is reasonably practicable. If it is not reasonably practicable to eliminate the risk, it must be minimised so far as is reasonably practicable.

It is a HSWA requirement that farmers work with contractors or other health and safety duty holders when they have the same health and safety duty (overlapping duties). This section explains the concept of overlapping duties.

Using farm vehicles and attached machinery for work can expose workers and other people to risks of death or serious injury, including from loss of control, rollover, collision, being struck, crushing or entanglement.

This ACOP sets out actions for: PCBUs to consult, cooperate and coordinate with other PCBUs on a farm who have the same health and safety duty; PCBUs who have young people on the farm; workers in relation to the worker duties and PPE duties covered in this document.

MAC has been adapted by WorkSafe New Zealand to reflect New Zealand legislation. This version is known as the New Zealand MAC (NZMAC). The NZMAC can also help you to identify where control measures could be put in place to eliminate or minimise the risk of discomfort, pain, and injury, and prioritise which tasks should be considered first.

The New Zealand Psychosocial Survey aims to improve understanding of the psychosocial working environment in New Zealand. it assesses a wide range of psychosocial factors in the workplace to improve WorkSafe staff and external stakeholders’ understanding of psychosocial health in the NZ working environment.

This guide provides practical advice on managing the risks of using machinery in the workplace.

Use this form to notify WorkSafe of your facility.

WorkSafe is providing this information in relation to the presence of asbestos in certain fire safety doors. WorkSafe was notified of a potential health risk involving imported materials, which may contain asbestos, used in the production of fire safety doors.

This guide explains how large PCBUs can prioritise critical risks in their work under the Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA).

This guide helps small PCBUs understand how to manage critical risks under the Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA)

This guide helps you work out whether you are a small or large PCBU and how your duties apply under the Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA).

This guide explains what ‘critical risk’ is, and how to identify these in your work, under the Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA).

WorkSafe considers that Epsilon Ventures Limited has likely breached the Act by failing to manage the risks associated with pedestrians and mobile plant operating in the same area of the workplace.

The tank wagon record contains information about tank wagons, transportable containers, and tank wagon fabricators that have been allocated a record number.

The stationary container system design and fabricator record contains information about stationary tanks, process containers, and fabricators that have been allocated a record number and for which additional conditions may have been imposed by WorkSafe.

Check this record for gas cylinder designs approved for use, filling, and testing in New Zealand.

Use this register to find approved LPG fitting standards.

The Health and Safety at Work (Asbestos) Regulations 2016 prohibit PCBUs from carrying out work involving asbestos. One exception is if the work involving asbestos is genuine research and analysis. This isn’t defined further. This clarification explains how we interpret genuine research and analysis.

This position sets out our expectations where persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) need to work with other PCBUs when their duties under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA) overlap.

WorkSafe New Zealand has granted an exemption (SEP2502) to Waste Management NZ Limited from compliance with regulations 11.30(2) and 11.34(2) of the Health and Safety at Work (Hazardous Substances) Regulations 2017 (the HS Regulations) in relation to the separation distance between their type A store holding class 3.1B and 3.1C substances and Building 2 located at 88 Francella Street, Bromley, Christchurch 8062.

These guidelines provide practical advice on ways to identify and manage health and safety risks associated with working at height in New Zealand.

This safety alert covers the importance of being safe and staying connected when working remotely or isolated from others.

Occupational divers are required to be medically fit to hold a current Certificate of Competence (CoC). This questionnaire is part of the medical assessment of fitness for occupational diving.

WorkSafe has granted an exemption (reference HS2509) to Grayson Engineering (2015) Limited from compliance with regulation 11.42(1) (in so far as it applies to the maximum quantity of liquid petroleum gas that can be used indoors) of the Health and Safety at Work (Hazardous Substances) Regulations 2017 at their engineering facility located at 25 Langley Road, Wiri, Auckland.

This safety alert is a reminder to consider whether asbestos-containing materials (ACM) may be present before carrying out high-pressure water spraying or using compressed air. Disturbing ACM can release asbestos fibres and contaminate surrounding areas, posing risks to workers, occupants, and others nearby.

We expect you to request work health and safety information from a contractor before you hire them. A formal pre-qualification process is one way to gather the information you need.

Pre-qualification helps hiring businesses check, before work starts, whether a contractor can manage its health and safety risks. WorkSafe New Zealand expects hirers to ask contractors about their work health and safety as part of good practice. However, pre-qualification is not compulsory.

This policy explains how we approach setting workplace exposure standards (WES) values and biological exposure indices (BEI), as the process for setting both these types of substance exposure values is similar.

A quick guide to planning for first aid and medical services at events.

This regulatory clarification describes what steps must be taken to prevent the overfilling of a stationary tank in a building supplying a burner or internal combustion engine.

This quarterly health and safety performance report has been prepared by WorkSafe New Zealand to provide extractives-specific information to mining,
tunnelling and quarrying operations in New Zealand.