Government plans to apply "experience rating" - essentially a no- or low-claims discount on employers' ACC levies - from April next year.

Privatisation should only be allowed if there is evidence it will improve the system, former ACC chairman Ross Wilson says.

A roofing contractor is dead after falling through a roof at an industrial site in west Auckland today.

Several sheets of glass fell on men unloading a shipping container, one breaking and causing fatal wounds to a worker yesterday, police say.

Large sheets of glass crashed down and killed a man at an industrial site last night. Four of his colleagues were injured trying to rescue him.

Police slam the "negligent behaviour" of a person who informed the wrong family about a tragic logging death after listening in on a police scanner.

An eavesdropper informed the wrong family that a relative of their's had died following a forestry accident today.

The Department of Labour has confirmed it is prosecuting an Auckland secondary school over a fatal boiler explosion in June.

Auckland secondary school says it will vigorously defend any charges it might face over fatal explosion.

Over twice as many men - 31 - died at work between July and November when compared to the same period in 2007.

A man has died after being crushed in a wood-pulp rolling machine at the Carter Holt Harvey Tasman Mill in Kawerau.

A bomb disposal expert was killed by an artillery shell explosion just weeks after he returned from active service in Afghanistan.