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.

Petroleum

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Asbestos

Find out more about managing and working with asbestos.

Violence at work: customer service areas

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

Managing health and safety

Being safe at work is important. It is a responsibility shared by both the employer and the employee. This sections offers information on managing your risks, getting started, guidance material and how to report concerns or incidents.

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.

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 is New Zealand's workplace health and safety law. It came into effect on 4 April 2016.

Building health and safety into contract management

Health and safety obligations can overlap in a contracting chain, where contractors and subcontractors provide services to a lead contractor or client.

Health and safety in construction – your questions

Answers to the most common questions we get asked about health and safety on construction sites.

Mobile plant safety (March 2014)

Learn more about the hazards and how to keep yourself and others safe by watching the presentations made at our trade breakfast on mobile plant safety

Excavation safety (May 2014)

Trade breakfast for those carrying out excavations, or working close to them, and in particular, those people working on the Canterbury rebuild

Improving health and safety in manufacturing (February 2015)

What WorkSafe is looking for from manufacturing companies, occupational health in manufacturing, manual handling and wellness at Fletcher Aluminium, and a case study from B&D Doors

Electrical safety on construction sites (October 2015)

Managing electrical safety on sites. Case studies from Fulton Hogan and Jim the Builder as well as presentations from Energy Safety and WorkSafe New Zealand

Making conversations about health and safety everyday – Katie Milne

Katie Milne talks about how her husband's near fatal incident shaped their health and safety journey.

Inspiration, tragedy and health and safety – Mairi Whittle

Mairi Whittle talks about how an inspirational mentor and a tragedy on the farm have shaped her health and safety focus on her family farm.

Adding value to the farm business through good health and safety - James Robertson

James Robertson chats about his experiences on his family farm and how an injury can have a big impact your business.

Making health and safety about people, not compliance - Jim van der Poel

Jim van der Poel talks about how he runs his farm in Waikato and what good health and safety practice means to him.