HSWA is New Zealand's workplace health and safety law and sets out the principles, duties and rights in relation to health and safety. Regardless of who you are, we want you to understand what it means for you.
How to manage your work health and safety risks, including a framework to help you through the process for identifying, assessing, managing and controlling risks.
Everyone who goes to work deserves to come home healthy and safe. You and your workmates are entitled to work in environments where the risks to your health and safety are properly controlled.
Health and Safety Representatives (HSRs) are a well-established example of worker participation and can also support worker engagement. HSRs provide workers with a formal, visible way to have a say in work health and safety.
Each year our health and safety inspectors carry out 12,500 workplace assessments. These are proactive, planned visits and are not usually triggered by an incident or health and safety complaint.
A worker can stop or refuse to carry out work if they believe that the work is unsafe or would expose them to a serious health and safety risk. Where attempts have been made and have failed to resolve a cessation of work issue, the PCBU, HSR or worker can request WorkSafe to assist.
