Health and Safety

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Work Safety - ACC

Information about injury prevention and work safety from ACC.

Learn how to prevent injuries at home, work and leisure

If you want to improve safety and reduce the incidence of injuries, you can get information and advice from ACC about injury prevention for: - workplaces and industries - home - sports - schools and...

ACC - Managing Health and Safety

As a manager, there are many things you can do to promote health and safety in your organisation. The ACC WorkSafe Cycle gives you a step-by-step guide on how to set up and support effective workplace health and safety.

Occupational Safety and Health Service (OSH) website

This website provides information and guidance to assist New Zealand businesses with workplace health and safety matters.

OSH self-help tools.

Workplace self-assessment sheets for health and safety matters

Get information, and publications, about workplace health and safety

Health and Safety law places duties on people in and around workplaces. A wide range of workplace health and safety information is available on the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) website that will...

Find out about health and safety law

You can find information on the legislation administered by Occupational Safety and Health Service (OSH). In particular, there is information on the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992, Dangerous...

Report an accident at work to The Occupational Health and Safety Service

If anyone is seriously hurt at work employers must report this to Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) as soon as possible. This is a requirement under the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 You...

Report notifiable or dangerous work to OSH

Employers must notify the Occupational Safety and Health Service of certain work that is more than usually dangerous before it is started. You can find out what those categories of work are, and how to report.

Claim accident compensation for an injury

If you have been injured at home, at work, in the car or while playing sport, you may be entitled to accident compensation assistance from ACC. ACC can also provide assistance if you have suffered sexual...

Get employment case law information

Get copies of judgments or decisions, access online weekly updates of recent cases from the employment institutions, or find out about subscription services and the library collection of the Employment...

Find out about occupational health and diseases

You can find resources on the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) website about occupational health and occupational disease.

Health and Safety Committees: Health and Safety Representatives

A Factsheet to provide guidance on the 2002 amendment to the Health and Safety in Employment (HSE) Act. Health and safety representatives help other employees by playing a particular role in representing the views of employees and liaising with the employer on health and safety matters.

Health and Safety Committees: Employee Participation Systems Factsheet

A Factsheet to provide guidance on the 2002 amendment to the Health and Safety in Employment (HSE) Act. The Act requires all employers to allow employees a reasonable opportunity to participate in the improvement of health and safety at work. In some cases, the employer, employees and any unions representing them must work together to develop a formal employee participation system.

The New Zealand Injury Prevention Strategy

The New Zealand Injury Prevention Strategy reflects the wishes of New Zealanders to live in a society where more people are living free of injury while continuing to live active and challenging lives

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