Agriculture industry safety alerts

Find safety alerts from the agriculture industry.

Industry safety alerts

Forestry industry safety alerts provided by industry (both domestically and internationally)

Petroleum and geothermal industry safety alerts

Links to safety alerts that might be of interest to workers in the petroleum and geothermal sectors.

Petroleum and geothermal industry alerts

Links to safety alerts that might be of interest to workers in the petroleum and geothermal sectors.

News and media

We produce a range of information to keep you informed about our work. Here you can access our latest media releases, newsletters, bulletins and safety alerts.

Forestry

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

Agriculture

About us

This section contains information about WorkSafe New Zealand, including information about our role, our strategy and our people. It also contains our corporate publications and campaigns.

Petroleum

Health and safety duties for businesses that import and supply PPE

Importers and suppliers of PPE can eliminate or minimise health and safety risks by ensuring their PPE is safe for workers to use or wear.

Petroleum guidance

We have developed guidance on a number of issues included in the Health and Safety at Work (Petroleum Exploration and Extraction) Regulations 2016

Diving Industry Advisory Group (DIAG)

The Diving Industry Advisory Group (DIAG) represents each of the occupational diving sectors in New Zealand. This page provides information about DIAG and their notices to the occupational diving industry.

Publishing policy

The purpose of our Prosecution Publishing policy is to provide transparency and certainty as to the approach that WorkSafe New Zealand will take to the publication of information about prosecutions

Geothermal

Consultation policy

This consultation policy sets out the principles of WorkSafe in relation to written consultation.

Monitoring accidents, incident and alerts

We monitor electrical and gas products, installations and networks, through audits and inspections. This is our proactive approach to ensuring compliance, and promoting the appropriate steps to sourcing and supplying safe products, and to safe installation.

Energy Safety

Energy Safety, part of WorkSafe New Zealand, is the regulator for ensuring the safe supply and use of electricity and gas in New Zealand.

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.

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.

Involving everyone in learning reaps benefits

Bringing teams together to learn from incidents is transforming worker participation and engagement in health and safety at Contact Energy.

Audit and enforcement

Learn more about our audit and enforcement role, and our approach to monitoring electrical and gas accidents, incident and alerts

Audits and inspections

Anyone who designs, installs and/or operates electrical or gas installations and networks, or supplies or installs electrical or gas appliances and fittings in New Zealand can be audited by us.

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

Guidance for adventure activity operators and outdoor recreation activity providers.

Violence at work: customer service areas

This fact sheet explains how office-based businesses or undertakings can prevent or deal with violence at work

External review of technical advice given on the Electricity (Safety) Amendment Regulations 2025

An independent expert review has confirmed that Energy Safety’s advice on removing specific clauses from the electrical wiring regulations was sound and technically justified.

Titles of advice to the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety

We are proactively releasing the titles of briefing, reports, and aides-memoire sent to the office of the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety.

Join our health and safety inspectors

Our inspectors play a key role influencing work health and safety in Aotearoa. The Inspectorate’s goal is to prevent harm from work, promote a culture of safety, and hold organisations accountable for maintaining healthy and safe working environments.

Part A: Managing health and safety through the contracting chain

Learning modules: Health and safety when managing a small forest harvest

These learning modules support the Health and safety when managing a small forest harvest good practice guidelines.

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

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

Health and safety at opencast mines, alluvial mines and quarries

These good practice guidelines give practical advice on health and safety control measures at opencast mines, alluvial mines and quarries.

Policy clarification: Recreational access and the Health and Safety at Work Act (2015)

There’s often uncertainty about how HSWA applies when people access land for recreation. This policy clarification explains our view on the responsibilities of the PCBU and visitors, and how we'll manage and respond to concerns.

Health and safety in welding

Guidance covering a range of topics including training and qualifications, fire and explosion prevention, local exhaust ventilation, and noise and vibration