Agriculture psychosocial risks

Agriculture workers were slightly more likely to rate their health as good or above compared to all workers.

Psychosocial risks infographics

Infographics on psychosocial risks for the construction, agriculture, manufacturing, and forestry sectors, as well as for all New Zealand workers.

Psychosocial risks for all New Zealand workers

80% of workers rate their health as being ‘good’ or above.

Construction psychosocial risks

Construction workers rated their health similar to all workers.

Forestry psychosocial risks

Forestry workers were more likely to rate their health as good or above compared to all workers.

Manufacturing psychosocial risks

Manufacturing workers were slightly more likely to rate their health as good or above compared to all workers.

Guidelines on managing psychosocial risks at work

Mentally healthy work - good practice guidelines for managing psychosocial risks at work

Mentally healthy work in retail: Case studies

WorkSafe joined with Kmart New Zealand and Z Energy to look at how businesses minimise psychosocial risks in their workplaces.

Psychosocial factors

All businesses have psychosocial factors that impact workers. Learn more about key psychosocial hazards and risks.

Mental health when working from home: for PCBUs

This guidance for PCBUs provides advice on how to manage the psychosocial (mental health) risks for workers who are working from home. There is also an infographic available that summarises some of the information in this guidance.

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.

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.

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.

Health conditions notified to WorkSafe

Reducing work-related ill health is a priority for WorkSafe. We have specialists in a range of work health and safety fields who support businesses to manage work-related health risks.

New Zealand Psychosocial Survey

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

Research

WorkSafe’s Research and Evaluation team was established early in 2014 and a programme of work is underway

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.

4.0 Managing work-related health

Forestry

Read our guidance on safety practice for forestry operations, tree felling near powerlines and our mobile plant assessment tool.

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.

Mental health

This section contains information about WorkSafe's focus on mental health and wellbeing at work.

Working from home

Manufacturing

Construction

Information around site safety, working at height, noise, scaffolding, and essential toolkits.

Starting the mentally healthy work journey

If you are at the beginning stages of creating mentally healthy work, the information shared from this page will help you get started.

Identifying risk and protective factors

This page provides information on identifying workplace risk, and examples of protective factors for mentally healthy work.

Mentally healthy work – short essays on important topics

To help businesses and organisations as they build and support mentally healthy work, we have published a series of short essays about this important area.