In a significant step, a coroner has recommended key improvements to forestry's code of practice.
This follows the inquest into the death of Niko Brooking-Hodgson who was hit by a flying 9kg shackle that had snagged then pulled free under force, in a forest block near Napier in August 2016.
He was 24.
Coroner Donna Llewell said it was time that forestry's code of practice - also called The Bush Bible - was updated.
Lawyer Hazel Armstrong was an expert witness in the hearing, she spoke to Morning Report's Corin Dann.
