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WorkSafe 2023 organisation change – final decisions
Refreshed guidelines on Health and Safety Representatives and Health and Safety Committees
Unsafe machine cost worker his arm
Runaway trailer involved in road fatality
Fence post ski death due to poor risk assessment
New Chief Executive for WorkSafe
Back-breaking demolition case a credit to victim’s tenacity
WorkSafe Chief Executive standing down
WorkSafe opens organisation change process
Preventable injury puts seasonal worker safety in focus
Fatal Ruapehu bus crash was avoidable
Sand boarding death puts sad new perspective on customer care
Safety commitment agreed after sea cave ordeal
Workplace explosion was no joke – warning to all
Strong sentences a warning – prevent harm, don’t cover it up
The importance of checking and servicing quad bike drive belts
Whakaari helicopter operators plead guilty
Meatworks death brings consequences for AFFCO
Ensuring mobile elevating work platforms are fit for use
Significant guilty pleas in Whakaari case
Energy Safety Business Update 14 June
Trapped arm sombre warning on imported machinery
Meatworks’ oversights led to horrific injury
Maintaining, inspecting and re-certifying permanent anchorage systems
Company failures leave builder seriously injured
Inflatable slide collapse gets court sequel
Machine guarding failures ‘reprehensible’
Exposed machinery recipe for disaster
Pond tragedy spurs call to do better
Connecting a generator to the wiring of a house or building following an emergency
Worker’s eye injury caused by avocado company’s safety oversights
Skip bin brain injury at work tragic and needless
Asbestos flooring oversight dangerous mishap
Keeping safe during cyclone and flooding emergency and recovery
Keeping safe during flooding emergency and recovery
Energy Safety Business Update
NZ Mining Board of Examiners members appointed
Death reminder to keep eye on field staff
Sea cave ordeal brings lessons for schools
Worker’s hand injury prompts renewed safety focus
Subcontractors are entitled to health and safety too
More must be done to manage asbestos risks
Modified machine created risk that killed worker
“Use common sense” a poor approach to health and safety
Sentencing sends message to installers
Enforceable undertaking aims to improve site safety
Battery fire in underground storage
Fertiliser “white out” death a cautionary tale for agriculture sector