A Timaru timber company and its director have been ordered to pay more than $450,000 in fines and reparations over the death ...

Timaru director Sean Sloper and his company Point Lumber Limited are the latest to be jointly sentenced over the death of a ...

Ethyn McTier's family says the loss of the gentle soul has left a gap in their lives that can never be filled.

Ethyn McTier died aged 23 - entrapped in a belt at Point Lumber Limited, in 2022. WorkSafe found there was no guarding to protect workers, and no risk assessment had been done. It also found a range ...

New Zealand already has one of the worst occupational health and safety records, per head of population, among OECD nations.

A WorkSafe NZ prosecution relating to the 2022 death of a Gisborne worker who was trapped in a waste shredder has been ...

The men were doing an excavation, to try to fix the smell of rotting plasterboard at the Taylorville Resource Park near ...

WorkSafe has a confused approach to prosecutions that risks its legal team getting cases "late and undercooked", a review ordered by Crown Law says. Respondents called its investigation resources ...

Taranaki Fuimaono, 43, died in police custody in June 2021. The Head Hunter’s led to WorkSafe New Zealand prosecuting the New Zealand Police for an alleged breach of health and safety.

Disability advocates fear recent changes to WorkSafe will lead to more harm to the intellectually disabled after four IHC residents choked to death while in care last year. The government announced on ...

Of the 13 defendants that were originally charged by Worksafe NZ over the White Island disaster, three were the individual Buttle brothers and 10 were organisations. ...