COVID-19 guidance for workplaces and workers

On 15 August 2023, the Government ended remaining COVID-19 public health measures.

Managing the risks of shift work

The aim of this guidance is to support persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) in managing risks from shift work.

Managing work site traffic – Good practice guidelines

This guide provides practical advice on ways to identify and control the health and safety risks associated with work site traffic.

Mobile elevating work platforms

This good practice guideline outlines requirements when working with mobile elevating work platforms.

Adventure and outdoor recreation activities – managing the risks from natural hazards

Guidance for adventure activity operators and outdoor recreation activity providers.

Unattended refuelling sites

Good practice to help site operators identify and manage the risks associated with dispensing petrol/fuel at unattended refuelling sites.

Safe work with precast concrete

These guidelines offer advice on the safe handling, transportation and erection of precast concrete elements.

Guidance for commercial white water rafting operators

These guidelines offer advice on keeping workers and participants safe while white water rafting.

Managing health and safety: A guide for farmers

These guidelines will help reduce the risk of injuries and fatalities by providing practical guidance on farm health and safety

14.0 Impairment

Safe work with lifts, escalators and moving walkways

Good practice for work involving lifts, escalators or moving walkways.

Safe use of tractors - fact sheet

On average, six to seven farmers are killed every year in New Zealand when using farm tractors. Many hundreds have been seriously injured. The majority of injuries involving farm tractors are caused by tractors rolling over or people being tangled in implements and machinery.

Working on roofs - good practice guidelines

This good practice guide will provide practical guidance to employers, contractors, employees and all others engaged in work associated with working on roofs.

Acoustic enclosures

Use enclosures fitted around all or part of a machine to reduce noise.

3.0 Emergency management

3.0 Managing risk throughout the contracting chain

Fatigue quick guide

To work safely, workers should be physically and mentally alert. This means that fatigue is a potential risk. Persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBUs) and workers have a responsibility to manage fatigue at work.

Designated diving doctors

List of Designated Diving Doctors, authorised by the Diving Hyperbaric Medicine Service to perform Occupational Diving Medical Examinations.

Two new draft codes of practice in agriculture

We are developing two draft codes of practice in agriculture. They will set out expectations under HSWA, helping businesses reduce harm and confidently meet their legal duties.

Health and safety in welding

Guidance covering a range of topics including training and qualifications, fire and explosion prevention, local exhaust ventilation, and noise and vibration

Safe use of machinery

These guidelines outline the hazards that come with using machinery in the workplace, potential injuries and how best to control these hazards

Whole body vibration – information for businesses

This guide is for businesses that carry out work involving machines. It explains how to identify and manage the risks from excessive whole body vibration (WBV).

Safe reversing and spotting practices

This guide offers practical advice on how you can manage the risks of reversing vehicles and mobile plant.

Asbestos in Aotearoa New Zealand

This guidance is for anyone interested in the history of asbestos in New Zealand and the diseases it can cause.

Mobile plant assessment tool

This assessment tool has a focus on the machines involved in machine felling and extraction. It is designed to supplement the Forestry Assessment tool which has a broader focus on the people, the site, and the plan.

Winding engine driver

Information for a winding engine driver certificate of competence (CoC), including how to apply, legislative requirements, and where to find help.

Keeping your service station compliant with the hazardous substances regulations

This guide will help you understand how to comply with the regulations for hazardous substances at your service station. It will also help you or your staff prepare for your compliance certifier’s visit to issue your site with the necessary compliance certificates.

Silica dust in the workplace

This guidance advises PCBUs of the risks of respirable crystalline silica dust and how to control them and protect their workers.

The source path receiver model

We’ve produced a series of resources to help you understand your duties around managing the risks of noise, including using the source path receiver model, providing workers with hearing protection if risk remains, and making sure your workers are trained.

Scaffolding in New Zealand

Advice on the safe design, use, and maintenance of scaffolding.

Introduction to the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 – special guide

A guide to New Zealand’s key work health and safety law and its regulator.

Electrical safety on small construction sites

This guide provides information about electrical supply and safety on small construction sites. It is for a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) who manages or controls a small construction site.

Safe sheep shearing guide

The purpose of these guidelines provide advice on how to keep people safe in the shearing industry.

Publications and resources

We produce a range of publications and resources to help you understand and manage the risks associated with your business. You can browse by topic, industry and type of resource

Working safely with chemicals and fuels on farms

This good practice guideline helps farmers comply with the health, safety and environmental laws for chemicals and fuels.

What to know about exposure monitoring and health monitoring – for workers

Your business must manage the risks to your health from the work you do. They could use monitoring to help them to do this. The type of monitoring will depend on the kind of work you do.

Health care and social assistance report

Workers in the health care and social assistance sector can experience poor physical and psychosocial health outcomes. This document provides an overview of the literature on occupational harms and risk factors in the sector.

Maintenance of trees around powerlines

This approved code of practice trees describes minimum standards and preferred work practices for work on trees near power lines.