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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) is reminding motorists that essential maintenance work will take place overnight 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 ...

WorkSafe is being told to shed its “safety-at-all-costs mentality” and heavy-handed approach to punishment for a honed focus on managing critical risks and providing clear guidance for businesses.

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 ...