Work Safe

The government has declared a war on road cones, but the traffic management industry thinks it's the wrong approach to an issue it's already working on.

WorkSafe alerted officials that it was running out of money to fund its prosecution over the deadly Whakaari/White Island disaster a month before the trial began last year.

The investigation has been New Zealand's 'largest and most complex' health and safety investigation and prosecutions.

A judge has called WorkSafe's actions "negligent" after it pushed ahead with prosecuting a quarry after a flying visit to check if it was safe.

A report which found the country's health and safety regulator lacks a clear strategy and cannot say if it is effective is "shocking", the National Party says.

Charges have been dropped against two big contractors over unsafe roadworks where a young cyclist was killed in Christchurch.

The boss of a farming company has been convicted after asking an injured staff member to lie to WorkSafe so the business would not be prosecuted.

A Bay of Plenty sawmill site will be blessed on Monday after a man died in a workplace accident.

A man in his 70s was killed yesterday when the bulldozer he was driving on a Hawke's Bay farm rolled over on top of him.

A farm machinery company has been fined nearly $240,000 after it failed to repair properly the brakes on a tractor which ended up running over a worker.

Two similar health and safety failings have cost a timber company more than $680,000 in fines, reparations and costs.

A man whose hand was cut off in a Timaru meat works machine believes the company should have been ordered to pay more than the $300,000 fine it received. Audio

The number of deaths and serious injuries in the farming sector have dropped this year.

An electrical company and a farming company have been fined after a worker was stuck in a grain silo and had to be resuscitated.

WorkSafe has issued strong recommendations on mine safety after an accident killed a migrant mine worker in November 2015.

Two Auckland students who had their throats cut in a college production could have been killed, a newly released report says.

Saint Kentigern College has avoided prosecution over two boys who had their throats cut during a school production of Sweeney Todd.

Rebecca Black, 40, died after her horse and another horse fell during a race in Gore.

The Hamilton City Council will pay an additional $80,000 to the children of an employee who was fatally mauled by a tiger at its zoo.

WorkSafe is investigating Fonterra's Edendale dairy factory after two emergencies there within a month.