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New Zealand Carcinogens Survey 2021

WorkSafe, in collaboration with the Occupational Integrated Database Exposure Assessment System (OccIDEAS) team and Research New Zealand, conducted the New Zealand Carcinogens Survey to estimate the current exposure to carcinogens among New Zealand workers.

Work health and safety: An overview of harm and risk in Aotearoa New Zealand 2024

This report provides an overview of work-related fatalities, injuries, and factors associated with ill health in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Psychosocial survey of the retail sector

The psychosocial survey of the retail sector provides a comprehensive analysis of psychosocial health and wellbeing specifically in retail.

Segmentation and insights programme: Employers and workers

WorkSafe has commissioned a series of research reports on workers and employers to help us track health and safety performance over time.

A psychosocial survey of healthcare workers

These findings help to improve our understanding of the psychosocial working environment for healthcare workers in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Work-related musculoskeletal disorders literature overview

This review summarises the New Zealand and international literature on the risk factors for work-related musculoskeletal disorders and the interventions to reduce harm from them.

Towards 2020

The Towards 2020 report sets out progress towards New Zealand’s work-related injury reduction target and provides detailed work-related injury data and analysis.

Work-related suicide: Examining the role of work factors in suicide

In 2022 WorkSafe completed a project to collect data and increase understanding about work-related suicide.

New Zealand Psychosocial Survey

The New Zealand Psychosocial Survey aims to improve understanding of the psychosocial working environment in New Zealand.

Segmentation and insights programme: Consumers and energy safety

The consumers and energy safety report examines consumers' awareness of the risks associated with electricity and gas usage in the home and their attitudes and behaviours in relation to keeping themselves and others safe.

Health care and social assistance report

Workers in the health care and social assistance sector can experience poor physical and psychosocial health outcomes. This document provides an overview of the literature on occupational harms and risk factors in the sector.

Risk factors in the hospitality sector

This report provides an overview of the literature on the harm profile and occupational health and safety risk factors in the hospitality sector, with a particular focus on the accommodation and food and beverage services subsectors.

Literature review of fatigue interventions

Fatigued workers are more likely to be injured at work than non-fatigued workers there is also evidence that workplace fatigue is associated with poorer long-term health outcomes. Fatigue has been associated with several catastrophic accidents such as the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl meltdowns and the Exxon Valdez tanker disaster.

Managing vehicle-related risks from supply chain pressures

WorkSafe New Zealand have commissioned a report from Mackie Research. The report makes a series of recommendations for the wider transport system into how to actively manage supply chain pressures to minimise vehicle-related risks.

Workplace safety and the future of work in New Zealand

This report from New Zealand Work Research Institute (NZWRI) examines the relationship between future-of-work trends and work-related safety outcomes, using information on work-related injury claims.

Health and safety in the agency work industry

WorkSafe commissioned MartinJenkins to conduct research on health and safety in the agency work industry (also called labour hire). This is the first time WorkSafe has sought research specifically on the health and safety of agency workers.

Risk factors in the road freight transport industry

Work-related vehicle crashes are a major cause of work-related fatalities, injuries, and risk to the safety and health of workers (and the public) both in New Zealand and internationally.

Health and safety representatives in New Zealand survey 2019

We have recently completed a survey of Health and Safety Representatives (HSRs) across industries in New Zealand.

Worker Exposure Survey

The purpose of this survey was to gather information across all industry groups and occupations in the NZ workforce to establish the prevalence of a wide range of occupational risk factors.

Psychosocial hazards in work environments and effective approaches for managing them

This report defines psychosocial health in the workplace context, identifies psychosocial health risks in the workplace and is intended to inform our approach to reducing psychosocial harm to New Zealand’s workers.

Dusty work and use of controls among construction workers

This study reports the results of a survey of construction workers in Waikato, who were asked about their use of dust control practices and their consideration of the risks from construction dusts.

Evaluation of the Puataunofo Programme

The Puataunofo programme is a workplace health and safety education initiative focused on delivering key health and safety messages to Pacific workers.

Health and safety regulators in a superdiverse context

WorkSafe, with support from MBIE, commissioned this research to uncover challenges and lessons from other regulators in superdiverse countries in improving health and safety outcomes in a culturally and linguistically diverse context.

The Maruiti Marae Based Learning Pilot Process Evaluation

In response to Māori workplace fatality and injury rates WorkSafe, Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) and Ngāti Porou embarked on a tripartite initiative called the Te Ao Maruiti: Health and Safety Learning Pilot.

Worker engagement, participation and representation literature review

This analytical review summarises the academic literature on ways of improving worker engagement, participation and representation (WEPR) in New Zealand.