Worksafe NZ will be meeting with producers of TV show The Block over adherence to basic health and safety rules following complaints from viewers.
Members of the public have raised concerns about the DIY construction show with the Government's health and safety regulator, which says it is looking into the matter.
The show, which is in its fifth season in New Zealand, follows four couples as they renovate a property and sell it at auction.
Guy Harris, a carpentry tutor at Whitireia in Wellington, told Fairfax that some practices by the contestants appeared to breach health and safety standards.
Apprentices at his polytech found the lack of standards hypocritical, he said.