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.

Examples of bullying behaviour

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

Introduction to the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 – special guide

A guide to New Zealand’s key work health and safety law and its regulator.

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.

Sexual harassment - Advice for businesses

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

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

Scaffolding in New Zealand

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

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 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.

Safe work with lifts, escalators and moving walkways

Good practice for work involving lifts, escalators or moving walkways.

Unattended refuelling sites

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

Guidance for commercial white water rafting operators

These guidelines offer advice on keeping workers and participants safe while white water rafting.

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.

Excavation safety

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bullying

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

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

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.

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

More information and resources for 'Safe practice for forestry and harvesting operations'

The resources and links referred to in Approved code of practice: Safe practice for forestry and harvesting operations are listed on this page.

Definitions and acronyms

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

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.

Sexual harassment - Advice for workers

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

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.

Preventing Legionnaires’ disease from cooling towers and evaporative condensers

Guidance on how to prevent Legionella bacteria from growing on wet surfaces of cooling towers, evaporative condensers and scrubbers.

Health and safety on farms - your questions

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

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.

Managing asbestos in your building or workplace – for PCBUs

Guidance for businesses, commercial and residential landlords, body corporates, and information on asbestos management plans.

Requirements for Health and Safety Representatives and Health and Safety Committees

The best health and safety outcomes are achieved when a PCBU and its workers work together.

Safe work with precast concrete

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