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.

A Canterbury boss has been fined thousands of dollars after his employee's thumb was severed by an unguarded machine used to cut firewood.

Double-amputee hit with fine for parking his specialist van across two car spaces because he needed room to exit the vehicle in his wheelchair.

Police believe John Douglas Howe was struck by a truck in the driveway in South Auckland on Wednesday.

A man who died in a grader accident was unwell and threw up in the cab before slipping in his vomit, falling out of the machine and running himself over: coroner.

This week's anniversary of the Pike River mining disaster has sparked the need for workplace health and safety attitudes to change.

An Auckland company where an experienced crane operator was crushed to death has been ordered to pay $116,000.

The partner of a forestry worker killed when he was crushed between two felled trees has hit out at a coroner's findings into his death.

A construction company employee was struck by a chain which caused a forehead laceration and damage to the eye.

Local tech company Blerter, has launched an app that aims to revolutionise how health and safety work place hazards and policies are identified.

Age was also a factor, with the highest rates of injury claims coming from workers in the younger, 15 to 24, and older, 65 and over, age groups.

Dairy farming was initially rated as one of the highest-risk industries during health and safety reforms before the Labour Minister, Michael Woodhouse, intervened and changed the criteria, documents show.

A 50-year-old truck driver crushed and lacerated by metal beams while unloading his vehicle at a Hamilton factory remains in a serious but stable condition at Waikato Hospital this morning.

The managing director Salters Cartage says he is struggling to deal with the death of 24-year-old Jamey Lee Bowring, killed in an explosion at his business.

The family of a contractor seriously injured when a digger was hit by a train last year will receive $110,000 from KiwiRail in reparation.

The manager of a massive inflatable slide which collapsed injuring six children at a Wairarapa A&P show instructed his "power of attorney" to appear in court on his behalf.

Officials might investigate calls from the parents of a young forestry worker killed when a tree fell on him to overhaul the way workplace incidents are investigated.

I am concerned the under-representation of self-responsibility creates a false sense of who exactly is responsible for safety in a workplace, writes Michael Barnett.

A man who died in a workplace incident near Oamaru yesterday has been named by police.

I believe we need to hold our Govt, whatever stripe it is, to the task of doing what it is there to do. That's what has driven this column, writes Dita De Boni.

Protecting workers with rules is one thing, hindering them actually doing their job or sending them broke adhering to rules is another.

Up to 300,000 working New Zealanders won't have access to one of the most effective ways they can keep themselves and their mates safe at work, writes Helen Kelly.

Law change aims to reduce legacy of workplace harm, write Christie Hall and Zena Razoki.

Delays to improving New Zealand's workplace health and safety regime seem to demonstrate either a complete lack of understanding of the causes of the country's poor track record in this area or a....

Business NZ has called for an end to political manipulation of ACC levy settings by successive Governments.