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.

Appendix A: Glossary

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.

Keep safe, keep farming toolkit

The health and safety of everyone on your farm affects productivity and your ability to enjoy the lifestyle offered by living on farm. Find out what you can do to keep safe and keep farming

Keeping volunteers healthy and safe

These guidelines provide practical advice for organisations on how to keep volunteers healthy and safe at work.

SafePlus self-assessment resources

You can use these resources to do regular self-assessments of your business's health and safety environment to identify what's working well and areas you can improve.

Safe work with precast concrete

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

Excavation safety

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

Scaffolding in New Zealand

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

Safe work with lifts, escalators and moving walkways

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

Mobile elevating work platforms

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

Rise fall saws

A rise and fall saw is used to cut knots and other imperfections from lengths of timber, as well as cutting timber for items like pallets and packing cases. This fact sheet provides guidance on the safe use of these types of saws

Standards and testing

All electrical products sold in New Zealand need to meet recognised standards and regulations. Evidence can be produced by accredited laboratories, which can be found in the IANZ directory.

Safe passenger ropeways

Guidance for keeping workers and others healthy and safe when using passenger ropeways, including chair lifts, gondola lifts and jig-back tramways, and surface ropeways such as t-bar lifts, platter lifts and rope tows.

3.0 Emergency management

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.

Adventure and outdoor recreation activities – managing the risks from natural hazards

Guidance for adventure activity operators and outdoor recreation activity providers.

Worker engagement and participation

All businesses and undertakings must involve their workers in workplace health and safety.

Resources for HSRs

Tools and resources to support you in your role as an Health and Safety Representative

Buying and selling appliances

When buying new or second hand gas appliance consider its safety as part of your decision. You must also consider the safety of the appliance if you are selling it to others.

Preventing manual handling injuries - fact sheet

This fact sheet identifies the dangers and risks from manual handling in farming and offers recommendations to help avoid accidents and injuries

Asbestos certified safety management system FAQs

Answers to questions about obtaining a certified safety management system under the Health and Safety at Work (Asbestos) Regulations 2016

New rules regarding the supply of Declared Articles in New Zealand

This guidance is for any person that tests, certifies, imports, supplies or manufactures electrical and electronic products and equipment for New Zealand.

Information for providers of maritime activities

If you provide a maritime-based activity, this guidance will help you determine whether you are subject to the adventure activities regulations.

4.0 Te ao Māori and risk management

Working safely with pallet racking systems

This guidance is for persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs). It explains what good practice looks like when selecting, using and maintaining an adjustable or selective pallet racking system.

Using quick hitches safely

This fact sheet provides practical guidance for the safe use of quick hitches

Rotary printing press

A rotary printing press is a press in which paper or other materials receive images from a rubber coated cylinder, called the blanket or offset cylinder.

Worker engagement and participation – fact sheet

Businesses should have planned, well known ways to engage with workers and support their participation in health and safety. Things are likely to work better when you have a mix of formal and informal ways for workers to contribute.

Managing work site traffic – Good practice guidelines

This guide provides practical advice on ways to identify and control the health and safety risks associated with work site traffic.

Unattended refuelling sites

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

Hairdressing

People working in the hair and beauty industry are exposed to many hazards and risks on a daily basis including cuts, burns, and other potential work-related health and safety issues.

Officers' due diligence

This position sets out the due diligence duty of officers under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA). It outlines the standard of care that we expect officers to meet when carrying out due diligence.

Printing

A number of different types of processes are used in the printing industry, with each process using a range of hazardous substances depending on the operation involved.

Delivering LPG cylinders

This guide gives advice on the responsibilities of people who deliver LPG to workplaces and non-workplaces.

Working near low voltage overhead electric lines

This guide provides information on how to manage the risk of electric shock while work is being done near a live low voltage overhead electric line.

Disclaimer

This website is designed to provide you with general information and resources

Property management FAQs

Answers to questions about the responsibilities of property managers and owners, and body corporates under the Health and Safety at Work Act, the Gas (Safety & Measurement) Regulations and Electricity (Safety) Regulations.

Plastics extrusion presses

Plastic granules are poured into the extrusion press’ hopper, and heated by friction as the screw applies pressure. Additional external heating helps to raise the temperature.