Statistics NZ data shows cleaners, rubbish collectors labourers pest controllers, hotel porters, and courier drivers have the highest rate of claims for injury at work.

Every time Deanna Trevarthen sees a Worksafe television advertisemen she shuts her eyes until her partner changes the channel.

An earthmoving company has been ordered to pay more than $140,000 after an employee was killed by an exploding bitumen tank last year.

Federated Farmers is urging farmers to tackle the issue of methamphetamine in the workplace. Experts say new Health and Safety regulations mean employers are now legally obligated to take steps to mitigate the risk. Made with funding from NZ On AIr

Environment Canterbury and Department of Conservation move follows this week's double fatality in Northland.

More than half of fatalities on farms last year involved experienced workers carrying out routine jobs, new data from WorkSafe shows.

A woman was thrown from the back of a 4WD ute when it rolled on an Auckland beach.

A 50-year-old man who died after the quad bike he was riding crashed on a farm near Ashburton has been named.

Three Walmart employees have been charged for killing a shoplifter, as they were preventing him from stealing DVDs.

A fertiliser spreading company has been ordered to pay $150,000 after a worker was killed on the job.

The employers of a Taranaki forestry worker who died after an 800kg log fell on him have been ordered to pay more than $97,000 in reparation to his widow.

Worker seriously injured his arm at Sanford while using a fish de-heading machine which was deemed a 5/5 hazard risk.

Onside has launched an online health and safety app for farmers to make compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 easier.

WorkSafe New Zealand's Safer Farms programme is working with the rural sector to promote good health and safety practices.

A 21-year-old needed hospital treatment after being bitten on the penis by a redback spider while sitting on the toilet in Sydney.

People should be able to come home at the end of their working day. In New Zealand, that is less sure than in Australia or the United Kingdom.

A cleaner caught on a meat hook in a terrible workplace accident has lifted the lid on simmering tensions at the country's largest meat works.

COMMENT: No one wants to see a worker, colleague or friend hurt. No boss wants to have to tell a family member that their loved one is in hospital or worse still, won't be coming home ever again, writes Grant McDonald.

A Hamilton roadworker was in serious condition after being run over by a digger this evening.

Boards need to move from being reactive to proactive, says Simon Arcus, chief executive of the Institute of Directors.

Being the lawyer who represented the NZ-based Pike River mine directors and chief executive following the 2010 tragedy, Stacey Shortall knows better than most the nuances and legislative minefields attached to health and safety issues

Better workplace relationships and risk reduction go hand in hand, a safety expert tells Helen Twose.

Law change means companies need to check their insurance policies, writes Tim McCready

600 to 900 Kiwis die from work-related diseases. The Health and Safety at Work Act aim to reduce workplace deaths and serious injuries by 25 per cent by 2020.

The director of a Matamata construction company whose worker was buried alive has been ordered to four months' home detention.

A man was crushed to death in a workplace incident at a rubbish tip on Auckland's North Shore today.

A person understood to be a forestry worker has been killed in an incident at a forestry block in Tinui.

Devonshire, of West Harbour, was crushed in the incident which happened on her fifth week in the job.

A man has died in a workplace incident in Christchurch this afternoon after he was trapped under the ramp of a truck.