Asbestos removal: Good practice guidelines for licensed and unlicensed asbestos removalists

Road and roadside worker health and safety good practice guidelines

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Learning module: Working with or near asbestos

These modules support the Working with or near asbestos good practice guidelines, and are for all tradespeople including self-employed, managers of tradespeople, and those working near tradespeople.

Asbestos assessments

These guidelines provide good practice advice for conducting asbestos air monitoring and clearance inspections.

Asbestos removal

These guidelines provide good practice advice for PCBUs that carry out licensed and unlicensed asbestos removal work.

Conducting asbestos surveys

Good practice advice for how to plan, carry out, and report the results of an asbestos survey.

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

Guidelines on managing psychosocial risks at work

Adventure Activities – Managing the risks from natural hazards

Safe work with lifts, escalators and moving walkways

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

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 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.

MHF guidance

We have developed a suite of five good practice guidelines for operators of Major Hazard Facilities or proposed facilities on how to fulfil their duties under the MHF regulations

Health and safety by design: an introduction

These good practice guidelines are for persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) with a role in designing structures, plant or substances.

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.

Exposure monitoring and health monitoring – guidance for businesses

This guidance covers both exposure monitoring and health monitoring. It provides good practice advice for businesses on selecting external monitoring providers and then on putting in place monitoring programmes. Businesses with in-house monitoring providers may also find aspects of this guidance useful.

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

Tree work on farms

Harvesting trees is dangerous. A safe and productive harvest requires good planning and communication.

Safe sheep shearing guide

The purpose of these guidelines provide advice on how to keep people safe in the shearing industry.

Appendix 4: Worker engagement, participation and representation

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.

Health and safety by design

Occupational diving guidelines

Guidelines for people wishing to be an occupational diver.

Scaffolding in New Zealand

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

Safe work with precast concrete

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

Health and safety on farms - your questions

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

Woodlot harvesting on farms

This information sheet for farmers on the safe harvesting of woodlot on farms.

Safe sheep shearing fact sheet

Back injuries, sprains, strains and hand wounds are the leading injuries associated with shearing sheep.

Using a quad bike to tow - fact sheet

This fact sheet provides guidance on towing trailers and other attachments using a quad bike.

Forestry

The forestry sector primarily covers forest harvesting in commercial forestry operations. On this page are resources to help those in the forestry sector manage their work health and safety risks.