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A WorkSafe NZ prosecution relating to the 2022 death of a Gisborne worker who was trapped in a waste shredder has been ...
This followed WorkSafe issuing a Safety Alert on the importance of checking and servicing quad bikes after a farm manager ...
The men were doing an excavation, to try to fix the smell of rotting plasterboard at the Taylorville Resource Park near ...
A Timaru timber company and its director have been ordered to pay more than $450,000 in fines and reparations over the death ...
New Zealand already has one of the worst occupational health and safety records, per head of population, among OECD nations.
Endangering workers in this way is careless in the extreme, because these deaths were clearly preventable. In no way is it acceptable for a worker to be able to be killed on a conveyor belt, says ...
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 ...
NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) is reminding motorists that essential maintenance work will take place overnight on ...
A Greymouth man still suffers flashbacks from being trapped, unable to breathe, almost two years after rescuing a colleague ...
More than 650 reports have been made to the road cone hotline within its first month, but how effective has it been on the ...
In March, Greenpeace Aotearoa documented swathes of destroyed coral in areas of the Tasman Sea intensively trawled by New ...