The WorkSafe website will be unavailable on Tuesday 16 September from 12pm–5pm due to planned maintenance.
Our other online services, including the online services portal(external link) and Energy Safety portal(external link), will remain available.
To notify us of an injury, illness or incident at work, visit our online services portal(external link). For urgent notifications, please call us on 0800 030 040. For general or non-urgent enquiries, email us at info@worksafe.govt.nz.
Business leaders (such as business owners, directors and chief executives) have an obligation as officers to exercise due diligence to ensure the business meets its health and safety obligations.
You must take reasonable steps to:
- know about work health and safety matters and keep that knowledge up-to-date
- understand of the nature of the business operations and associated hazards and risks
- ensure the business has appropriate resources and processes to eliminate or minimise those risks and to comply with other health and safety obligations, and check that the business uses them
- ensure there are appropriate processes for receiving and considering information about incidents, hazards and risks, and for responding in a timely way.
A guide for small-to-medium business owners and company directors
This guide is for small-to-medium business owners and company directors. It explains how the law applies. It then explains how you can produce a health and safety plan using three steps, and what good health and safety systems have.
There is also separate guidance for officers that are volunteers.
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