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Overhead Power Lines Spark Safety Call
Thursday, 19 December 2024, 10:30 am | WorkSafe NZ
WorkSafe’s investigation found the employer, Coogan Contracting, failed to carry out a risk assessment to identify the overhead power lines as a hazard and have a spotter in place to ensure the lines were not contacted. More >>
High-speed Logging Death Adds To Forestry Toll
Thursday, 21 November 2024, 2:27 pm | WorkSafe NZ
The pre-harvest risk assessment only listed two hazards for the entire site, and did not properly consider the risks of the plugged log dislodging. The company should also have had better controls in place to minimise the risk of workers like Jake ... More >>
Storeman Killed In Racking Collapse
Monday, 11 November 2024, 11:48 am | WorkSafe NZ
33-year-old Franchesco Krueger was sweeping underneath racking, when it collapsed on him at United Steel in Wigram in November 2020. More >>
School Caving Tragedy Was Preventable
Friday, 27 September 2024, 5:16 pm | WorkSafe NZ
Schools must manage their risks under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. WorkSafe is proactively engaging with the Ministry of Education, Education Review Office, and Education Outdoors NZ to raise awareness of the issues and drive improvements ... More >>
Deadly Roller Door Collapse Was Preventable
Monday, 26 August 2024, 8:17 am | WorkSafe NZ
A substandard roller door installation has caught up with an Auckland business, in what WorkSafe says is a tragic consequence of poor workmanship. More >>
Landmark Sentencing Puts Safety Advisors On Notice
Monday, 19 August 2024, 9:04 am | WorkSafe NZ
A traumatic brain injury suffered by a Taranaki worker has led to the first sentencing of a consultancy under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. More >>
Four Deaths Prompt Quad Bike Warning
Friday, 9 August 2024, 11:20 am | WorkSafe NZ
WorkSafe is urging rural New Zealand to refocus on the risk of quad bike roll-overs, which have tragically killed four farmers across the country in the past three weeks. More >>
WorkSafe New Zealand Chair Announces New Chief Executive, Sharon Thompson
Tuesday, 25 June 2024, 4:00 pm | WorkSafe NZ
Sharon will join WorkSafe from her current role as Executive Director, Transformation and Operational Delivery, at the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) where she leads the operations and capability functions. More >>
Motorcyclist Dodges Death At Cattle Crossing
Friday, 21 June 2024, 10:12 am | WorkSafe NZ
The incident occurred in the Maruia Valley in March 2021, where sharemilkers had put the ropes across the 100kph road to relocate 800 cows. More >>
Kiwifruit Industry Opens New Frontiers In Forklift Safety
Tuesday, 11 June 2024, 7:10 pm | WorkSafe NZ
AI technology to sense pedestrians around forklifts is the centrepiece of a new safety commitment WorkSafe has accepted from a major player in the kiwifruit industry. More >>
Forklift Brake Failure Incident Could Have Been Avoided
Thursday, 23 May 2024, 12:36 pm | WorkSafe NZ
Casey Broad, WorkSafe’s National Manager Investigations, says the $240,000 fine handed down to Refrigafreighters Limited for an incident in September 2022 is a wake-up call to all businesses using forklifts. More >>
Unsafe Machinery Costs Digits And Dollars
Wednesday, 15 May 2024, 6:39 am | WorkSafe NZ
Courts have imposed more than half a million dollars in penalties since mid-March, in cases where workers have lost fingers on machinery that wasn’t kept safe by businesses. More >>
Death Puts Apprentice Safety In Focus Again
Friday, 10 May 2024, 12:04 pm | WorkSafe NZ
WorkSafe New Zealand says urgent action is needed by the trades to take better care of apprentices, after the second court sentencing this year for a trainee killed on the job. More >>
Charges Over Schoolboy’s Caving Death
Monday, 6 May 2024, 4:17 pm | WorkSafe NZ
WorkSafe New Zealand has charged the Whangārei Boys High School Board of Trustees for health and safety failures related to the death of a student a year ago. 15-year-old Karnin Petera died on a school trip to Abbey Caves on 9 May 2023. More >>
Mercury Commits To $1.15m Safety Spend
Tuesday, 9 April 2024, 11:22 am | WorkSafe NZ
A self-drive vehicle to enhance worker safety will be trialled by one of the country’s largest electricity providers, as part of a new agreement with WorkSafe New Zealand. Mercury NZ has signed the commitment in response to the uncontrolled release of geothermal ... More >>
WorkSafe Statement On Sentencing Of Whakaari Defendants
Friday, 1 March 2024, 12:44 pm | WorkSafe NZ
Steve Haszard, Chief Executive, WorkSafe New Zealand: “Just over four years ago when Whakaari erupted many lives were changed. The Court has now delivered sentences to those who failed their responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act ... More >>
Amputation Follows Forklift Trauma At Trade Depot
Wednesday, 28 February 2024, 1:22 pm | WorkSafe NZ
Businesses that contend with on-site traffic must learn from a collision that cost a woman her lower leg, WorkSafe New Zealand says. The woman was waiting to collect whiteware from the customer collections area outside Trade Depot in Onehunga, when ... More >>
Safety Boost For Police Speed Camera Operators
Tuesday, 20 February 2024, 1:47 pm | WorkSafe NZ
WorkSafe has accepted a binding commitment from the New Zealand Police to improve safety for speed camera operators, after one was critically injured in a high-speed collision on Auckland’s North Shore. The operator was thrown from his parked van ... More >>
Apprentice Builder Killed By Falling Framing
Thursday, 1 February 2024, 9:49 am | WorkSafe NZ
The death of a teenager on a Bay of Plenty building site is yet another example of why the construction sector needs to up its game, WorkSafe New Zealand says. Ethan Perham-Turner was killed when timber framing weighing 350 kilograms fell on him at ... More >>
No Place For Corner Cutting When Felling Trees
Friday, 26 January 2024, 4:31 pm | WorkSafe NZ
A business owner who put motorists at risk when felling trees has been criticised for his ‘dismissive attitude’ toward health and safety. Kevin Howard Stratford, who operates Stratford Logging, was convicted in the Nelson District Court this week. ... More >>
