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.

Forest owners could have been liable for fines of up to $3 million if worker Blair Palmer had been killed by a falling tree today rather than last week.

The changes made to the Health and Safety Act were made for all the right reasons out of the Pike River Mine disaster but if the same rules prevent kids from climbing trees, what's really been achieved?

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.

Worksafe will need to show its approach to farm safety is reducing workplace casualties or farmers could find themselves being held to account in the courts.

Police have released the name of a man killed while working at a Huntly manufacturing business.

The quarry industry wants the public's help to improve safety after four deaths in the sector so far this year.

A Japanese food importing company has been sentenced over the death of a worker in a forklift accident.

A company has been fined after a woman fell causing spinal fractures and a spinal cord injury

Stephen Bishop has had his manslaughter charged dropped after a workplace death for admitting lesser charges.

COMMENT: Are authorities able to monitor and oversee the hundreds of building projects across Auckland, asks Lucy Walker.

Colin Andrew Craig, a 65-year-old from Christchurch, died in hospital after the accident at GVI Logistics in Ivan Jamieson Place, near Christchurch Airport.

A man crushed between two trucks at a Christchurch work site this morning has died in hospital, police have confirmed.

A businessman has been fined for obstructing investigations after children were injured in an inflatable slide collapse.

Terry Milne, who died in a workplace accident this week, was "a great family man with a big heart" and his boss says the Otorohanga man will be deeply missed.

A Northland man has died on a farm after his vehicle rolled this morning.