How to notify us over the holiday period.
Notifications  
If someone has been seriously injured, become seriously ill, or died as a result of work – phone us on 0800 030 040 straight away. We have staff available to respond to these 24/7.
If you’re not sure what a notifiable event is, including your obligation to hold a scene, visit What events need to be notified?
Notifications made through our online form won't be monitored between 12pm on Tuesday 24 December 2024 and 8.30am on Monday 6 January 2025.
If you’re not sure if you need to notify us, use our online notification system and we’ll respond to you after 6 January 2025.
Health and safety concerns
If you have a health and safety concern that isn’t urgent, use our online form and we’ll respond to you after 6 January 2025.
Raise a health or safety concern
General enquiries
General enquiries made by phone or email after 12pm on Tuesday 24 December will be responded to from Monday 6 January 2025. This does not apply to notifications made by phone on 0800 030 040.
We wish you a safe and relaxing holiday.
This report reviews hazardous manual task risk assessments and recommends the tools that are most appropriate for use in New Zealand.
Read the report for our review and recommendations.
The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA) requires PCBUs to keep workers and others healthy and safe. This means that PCBUs must eliminate musculoskeletal risks from work, so far as is reasonably practicable. If risks can’t be eliminated, they must be minimised.
Hazardous manual task risk assessments can identify risk factors and support the implementation of controls. We have selected the suite of tools from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), United Kingdom, as a holistic and easy-to-use approach to assess musculoskeletal risks. We are working to make these tools available from our website, but you can access them from the HSE website in the meantime.
Different task types will require different assessment tools, for example:
- Screening tools – lifting/lowering, carrying, pushing/pulling, manual handling-while-seated
- Manual handling assessment charts (NZMAC) – lifting, carrying, team handling
- Risk assessment of pushing and pulling (RAPP) – pushing and pulling
- Assessment of repetitive tasks (ART) – repetitive upper limb tasks
- Contributing factors for musculoskeletal risks checklist – if you need to investigate manual tasks in more detail
Health and safety specialists such as ergonomists/human factors professionals and others can be used to support PCBUs to manage hazardous manual task risks.
While we have selected the HSE suite of tools, there are other risk assessment tools that PCBUs can use.
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