This followed WorkSafe issuing a Safety Alert on the importance of checking and servicing quad bikes after a farm manager ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

WorkSafe New Zealand Board Chair Jennifer Kerr has today announced the resignation of Chief Executive Phil Parkes. “Phil has been a strong voice for the need to collectively prioritise health ...