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.
WorkSafe has a variety of key operational activities and priorities within the petroleum sector.
Key operational activities
Driving improvements in industry major hazard safety performance through proactive regulatory interventions such as:
- Risk-based inspection of operations to determine the adequacy of management systems. The inspection considers relevant risk factors, performance and compliance history, current industry incident trends, and any relevant findings from previous inspections.
- Investigating accidents and process safety incidents
- Enforcement of statutory duties and requirements
- Working with relevant stakeholders to identify, define, document and promote good practice in the assessment and management of major hazards in the upstream petroleum sector.
Current priorities:
- Developing inspectorate capability
- Developing information infrastructure to support regulatory activities
- Creating policies and procedures that will allow transparent and consistent administration of legislation
- Producing guidance for employers and other duty holders on their reporting obligations under health and safety law.
- Preparation of decommissioning legislation
- Working with International Petroleum Offshore Regulators on Asset Integrity.
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