Worksafe stories
A workshop worker was hospitalised after drum-cutting fumes ignited, highlighting the risk of explosion when hot work is done on containers.
Better-fitting masks could sharply reduce Covid-19 transmission, with experts urging mandatory N95s for border and quarantine workers.
Construction firms can now book priority jabs for essential workers, while employers weigh when vaccination can be required.
Trade Me reduces customer data releases to Police and government agencies, with a 14% drop in requests from previous year.
A flooring firm has been fined USD $60,000 after a worker died using solvent-based adhesive without proper risk checks or ventilation.
A company’s ignored maintenance warnings ended in a fatal three-metre fall and a GBP £279,000 fine for unsafe trailer edge protection.
A court has ordered VINZ to pay more than GBP £500,000 after a customer was struck by a vehicle at its Hamilton testing site and later died.
A Dunedin court has fined a plumbing firm and its director after a bathroom heater installation caused a 12-year-old boy’s carbon monoxide death.
A Manawatu dairy farmer has been ordered to pay a fine after repeatedly blocking inspectors, despite WorkSafe's warning that cooperation is mandatory.
COVID-19 has accelerated remote-working and training risks as New Zealand’s workplace safety progress stalls and serious injuries rise.
Six people were left with serious burns after a Christchurch home was destroyed by an explosion caused by a gasfitter’s safety lapse.
More than one million US hand injuries a year are driving calls for better training, cut-resistant gloves and safer tools.
Lax hazard checks before manual tree felling led to a worker’s death, with Sullivan Contractors fined and ordered to pay GBP £365,225 in reparations.
A communication failure left scaffold workers exposed to caustic soda vapour, causing chemical burns and triggering more than GBP £300,000 in fines.
He will oversee major incident response, victim services and coronial work as WorkSafe targets repeated harm patterns at source.
A New Plymouth court has ordered more than USD $250,000 in penalties and reparation after a young worker lost three fingers in unguarded machinery.
Workplace injuries may fall sharply if staff are trained, alert and equipped with cut-resistant gloves, according to safety guidance.
A near-miss after the Kaikōura earthquake exposed switch-isolation failures, prompting over GBP £200,000 in safety initiatives for the electricity sector.
Prepared workplaces can cut fatal delays, with alarms, drills and first aid skills helping staff respond within minutes.
Telco services supplier UCG is appointing all of its New Zealand Delivery Partner subcontractors as full members of the Employers and Manufacturers Association.
