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Kmart recalls pickle jar over risk of breaking or exploding
Customers should stop using the jars and return them for a refund.
Damian Treanor: How to manage difficult employees effectively
OPINION: Tips for workplace harmony.
Construction's catalogue of tragedy: But is building really the riskiest job?
Construction is relatively safe when fatalities in that sector are compared to others.
Ports of Auckland death: Union wants national inquiry, Mayor says 'it is a tragedy'
It's the fourth death at Ports of Auckland since 2017.
Woman dies in workplace accident at West Auckland church
People could be seen hugging and crying outside the church.
Waikato school apologises to staff over rumours of 'no substance', issued Worksafe improvement notice
Board sorry for 'any distress' caused by claims teachers had faked permission slips.
Eight 'staff wellbeing' complaints laid against high school
Worksafe has not yet visited the school due to the Delta Covid-19 outbreak.
Tragic childcare death: Unknown how long 4yo lay unconscious on childcare slide
Coroner says it's not known how long 4-year-old lay unconscious.
'Difficult and tragic': Man killed in Auckland workplace accident
The accident happened at an industrial address on Auckland's North Shore.
Man killed, child in hospital after both receive electric shocks
The incident happened in Ngatira, in South Waikato.
Workplace death: 'I lost my best friend, the love of my life'
Les Laing, 28, died after being struck by heavy machinery at work.
Watercare sewer work halted after workers hit natural gas deposits
Methane, carbon monoxide found deep underground - likely due to rotting vegetation.
Unregistered electrical workers hit with fines
The pair carried out jobs they weren't authorised to do.
'Atrocious' training, regulations slammed in wake of forklift deaths
Forklift rules and training fall short, experts warn, as two boys die in two weeks.
Nursing 'crisis': Hospitals battle staff shortages, patient surge
DHB's chief nurse says "relentless" pressure partly due to high patient demand in ED.
'They're not acting like a church': Injured guard fell in Exclusive Brethren hole
Gary Martinsen says he's been traumatised by his ordeal.
Time to get tougher on childcare culprits
Ten Discoveries Educare centres are among 26 that have broken the rules repeatedly.
Pike River families shocked by new evidence in photo
Photo of electrical cabinet that may have sparked explosion has been given to police.
Tiger attack prompts Hamilton council to reassess risk
Council CEO recalls moment tiger victim's husband asked why he hadn't visited.
Potato farm death destroys 'a million dreams'
The man's death had destroyed "a million dreams", a community member said.
Firm to pay $108,500 for falling tree injury
Stumpmaster has been fined $90,000 and ordered to pay $18,500 in reparation
602 ACC claims, 106 trips to hospital in 90 days after parks opened
Adults and older kids getting hurt more at trampoline parks, study finds.
Shane Jones is on to something
A Hawkes Bay work scheme shoes they can help people on the dole.
Building firms fined for hushing up saw injuries
Two firms owned by the same man fined $78,000 for breaching worker safety laws.
Flammable cladding 'not prevalent' in NZ
Councils and apartment industry to look into prevalence of flammable cladding.
Tradie loses two fingers, three days in
A timber worker lost two fingers and the tip of his thumb on just his third day on the job.
Audrey Young: It's life and death ... but politics comes first
Cynical safety move means minister must quit if 'safe farm' death rate doesn't fall, writes Audrey Young.