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Bullying at work: Advice for small businesses

This quick guide outlines what you could do to minimise the likelihood of bullying at your workplace and the harm arising from it if bullying does occur.

Bullying at work: Advice for small businesses

Examples of bullying behaviour

These six scenarios provide examples of what bullying at work is and what it is not.

Examples of bullying behaviour

Bullying at work: Advice for workers

This is a quick guide with advice for workers about what bullying at work can look like, and what they can do if they think they are being bullied, or are accused of being a bully.

Bullying at work: Advice for workers

Sexual harassment - Advice for businesses

This quick guide provides information for businesses on preventing and responding to sexual harassment in the workplace.

Sexual harassment - Advice for businesses

Safe use of machinery

These guidelines outline the hazards that come with using machinery in the workplace, potential injuries and how best to control these hazards

Safe use of machinery

Scaffolding in New Zealand

Advice on the safe design, use, and maintenance of scaffolding.

Scaffolding in New Zealand

Working at height in New Zealand

Good practice guide providing practical guidance to employers, contractors, workers and all others engaged in work associated with working at height

Working at height in New Zealand

Working on roofs - good practice guidelines

This good practice guide will provide practical guidance to employers, contractors, employees and all others engaged in work associated with working on roofs.

Mobile elevating work platforms

This good practice guideline outlines requirements when working with mobile elevating work platforms.

Mobile elevating work platforms

Unattended refuelling sites

Good practice to help site operators identify and manage the risks associated with dispensing petrol/fuel at unattended refuelling sites.

Unattended refuelling sites

Health and safety when managing a small forest harvest

These good practice guidelines provide owners of small forests with practical guidance on health and safety when managing a harvest.

Health and safety when managing a small forest harvest

Excavation safety

Guidelines for managing the health and safety risks associated with excavation work.

Excavation safety

Safety and health in arboriculture

This guide is primarily aimed at the arboriculture industry. It provides guidance on how to safely climb, prune, trim, maintain and remove trees, cut brush and for using equipment. It does not provide advice on electrical hazards.

PCBUs working together: advice when contracting

Health and safety obligations can overlap in a contracting chain, where contractors and subcontractors provide services to a lead contractor or client. These guidelines are for persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) who are sharing a workplace with other businesses, or are working as part of a contracting chain.

PCBUs working together: advice when contracting

Above ground fuel storage on farms

These guidelines provide practical advice on ways to manage the health and safety risks associated with the above ground storage of fuel on farms.

 Above ground fuel storage on farms

Health services

People working in the health and social services sector are exposed to many health and safety hazards and risks on a daily basis.

Health services

Prevention and control of leptospirosis

This guidance provides practical suggestions for managing and preventing leptospirosis, an infectious disease that passes from animals to people and between animals.

Prevention and control of leptospirosis

Keeping your service station compliant with the hazardous substances regulations

This guide will help you understand how to comply with the regulations for hazardous substances at your service station. It will also help you or your staff prepare for your compliance certifier’s visit to issue your site with the necessary compliance certificates.

Keeping your service station compliant with the hazardous substances regulations

3.0 Emergency management

Preventing and responding to bullying at work

This good practice guide is for persons conducting a business or undertaking on how to minimise and deal with bullying at work.

Preventing and responding to bullying at work

Preventing and responding to bullying at work (PDF 897 KB)

TYPE:   Good practice guide
TOPIC:   Bullying, Violence, Worker engagement, participation and representation, Work-related health

These guidelines describe ways to minimise the likelihood of bullying at work and the harm arising from it. While the guidelines focus on dealing with bullying at work, they can also be used to deal with other unreasonable behaviour.

ISBN:  
978-0-908336-97-5 (online)
 

Best practice guidelines for working at height in New Zealand (PDF 1.7 MB)

TYPE:   Good practice guide
TOPIC:   Working at height, Working at height - ladders, Working at height - scaffolding, Working at height - roofs

Preventing falls from height is a priority for WorkSafe NZ and must be actively managed so that people are not harmed. This good practice guide outlines how to effectively assess, manage and control hazards when working at height.

ISBN:  
978-0-478-40188-2 (online)
 

Bullying

Tools and resources for businesses and workers to help guide you in preventing bullying in the workplace

Bullying

Managing health and safety: A guide for farmers

These guidelines will help reduce the risk of injuries and fatalities by providing practical guidance on farm health and safety

Managing health and safety: A guide for farmers

Working safely at height

Preventing falls should be actively managed so that people working at height are kept safe. We have produced a variety of guidance about working safely at height.

Working safely at height

Roofs - working safely on

Guidance on managing risk when working on roofs, including controls to prevent falls from roofs and the use of safety equipment

Roofs - working safely on

Definitions and acronyms

Definitions of some key terms, concepts and acronyms used on this and other associated websites

Definitions and acronyms

A hazard management system for mining operations

This fact sheet describes how a hazard management system is developed as part of a mining operation’s overall health and safety management system.

A hazard management system for mining operations

Sexual harassment - Advice for workers

This quick guide provides advice for workers in terms of sexual harassment.

Sexual harassment - Advice for workers

Good practice for worker engagement, participation and representation

Worker participation is essential to keep workplaces healthy and safe. The best health and safety outcomes are achieved when a PCBU and its workers work together.

Health and safety on farms - your questions

Answers to the most common questions we get asked about health and safety on farms

Health and safety on farms - your questions

General risk and workplace management - part 2

Part 2 of the guidance on the Health and Safety at Work (General Risk and Workplace Management) Regulations 2016.

Safe work with precast concrete

These guidelines offer advice on the safe handling, transportation and erection of precast concrete elements.

Safe work with precast concrete

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