Safety alert: Accelerated silicosis – 2024
This safety alert highlights the serious health and safety risks of exposure to high levels of respirable crystalline silica (RCS) for those who work in the stone benchtop industry.
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This safety alert highlights the serious health and safety risks of exposure to high levels of respirable crystalline silica (RCS) for those who work in the stone benchtop industry.
Safety alert
This technical bulletin is aimed at persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) who design, manufacture, supply or use cabinets constructed to meet the requirements of AS 1940, and compliance certifiers who encounter these cabinets in the course of their duties.
Bulletin
Statement from Steve Haszard, Chief Executive of WorkSafe New Zealand.
Media release
Businesses that contend with on-site traffic must learn from a collision that cost a woman her lower leg, WorkSafe New Zealand says.
Media release
We have published a prohibition for the sale (including an offer to sell), and use (including installation) of the Serene Classic S2068 wall mounted bathroom heaters, pursuant to Regulation 87 of the Electricity (Safety) Regulations 2010.
Article
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.
Media release
Five experienced industry figures have been selected to join the New Zealand Mining Board of Examiners.
Article
Read our February 2024 work-related health update.
Newsletter
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.
Media release
A business owner who put motorists at risk when felling trees has been criticised for his ‘dismissive attitude’ toward health and safety.
Media release