The inclusion of mental health in New Zealand’s Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA) is meant to protect workers from the risk of harm arising from exposure to workplace psychosocial hazards.

First steps include updating more than 50 guidance documents, launching the hotline for reporting road cones and rearranging the regulator's finances.

In a New Zealand first, a health and safety consultancy has been charged under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA) after a worker suffered a traumatic brain injury. The worker was hit from ...

"New Zealand's ongoing failure to learn and improve safety and health at work is disgraceful," the report reads. "A worker is almost twice as likely to be killed at work in New Zealand than if ...

Photo / George Heard Workplace health and safety is severely lacking, with almost one in two New Zealanders affected by workplace incidents, according to new research. These health and safety ...

A significant aspect in New Zealand’s current health and safety work environment is the lack of a strategic approach to safety. Many companies focus on the tactical aspects with long ‘to do ...

An analysis of health and safety data from more than 2,600 ... management levels may be contributing to New Zealand's failure to reduce workplace incident rates to better match Australia and ...

Yet the country’s only postgraduate course in work health and safety is under review as part of a wider cost-cutting exercise at universities. Currently, universities are considering a NZ$128 ...

According to the report, Health NZ also refused to reveal the results of two other internal health and safety reviews last year ... which was used in painting work at the construction site. Work was ...

Workplace death and injuries are costing the economy $4.4 billion a year, a new report estimates. The inaugural State of a Thriving Nation report by the Business Leaders’ Health and Safety ...

The New Zealand Health, Work and Retirement Study is a longitudinal study of people in New Zealand aged 55 years and over – looking at issues such as health, work, retirement and housing. The New ...