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New Zealand employers must provide a safe working environment and workplace for employees and visitors. Employees also have a responsibility to keep themselves and others safe on the job. There are steps you can take to reduce the chance of workplace accidents and create a healthier environment. This is an introduction to providing a safe and healthy workplace.
To keep your workplace safe you need to prevent harm (injury, illness and death) to staff and visitors. Good management of hazards will significantly reduce the number and severity of workplace injuries. Learn what you can do and how you can do it to identify, assess and control hazards.
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If you are thinking about improving the health and safety of your workplace, hazard management is a good place to start. This ACC guide will help you work through identifying and assessing the significance of hazards, dealing with them, and how to keep a hazard record.
Why should you have a hazard management plan? This guide looks at the 'Small Business WorkSafe Cycle' which includes review, plan and action, to improve your workplace safety and health.
This step-by-step guide will help you set up you own systems and practices for effective workplace health and safety management. It is useful for all employers, including those aiming to meet the requirements of ACC Workplace Safety Management Practices. Discover the ACC WorkSafe Cycle, a road map to reducing injury and illness in the workplace.
An overview of ACC Workplace Safety Management Practices that rewards employers, with 20 or more employees, for developing and maintaining safer work practices and systems
A manual on assessing and managing hazards in the workplace to help employers and business owners reduce accidents and injuries.
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Are you well prepared for emergencies? When an emergency occurs it is too late to decide who will do what, and what equipment you need. Use this guide to plan how you will manage emergencies that might arise in your workplace. Also included are emergency and investigation procedures, an injury incident form, and definition for serious harm injuries.
Workplace injuries are often not the result of a single immediate cause but of a chain of decisions and events leading up to that point. This article provides guidance for investigating workplace injuries and incidents for employers and small businesses. You can download an injury and incident form, investigation form and find more information on the ACC WorkSafe Injury Model.
Four quick questions to check if your business investigates and reports accidents correctly. You can also download a copy of ACC s Emergency and incident investigation guide for small business.
A brief description of employers, principals and the self-employed peoples' obligation to report serious harm and workplace injuries to the Department of Labour Office (DoL) as soon as possible, and the incident investigation form that must be filed with DoL within seven days of the injury occurring
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Having an effective occupational health and safety management system allows you to meet legal requirements, reduce workplace illness and injury, and minimise the costs associated with workplace accidents.
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An overview of the fire safety requirements in New Zealand workplaces, such as evacuation procedures, alarms and fire fighting devices.
An article explaining what employers are required to provide in terms of staff training and supervision under the Health and Safety in Employment Act.
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Strains and sprains from manual handling are the most common cause of occupational fatigue, low back pain and lower back injuries. Learn how to identify the key hazards from lifting, pushing and pulling heavy items, and how to manage them to avoid injury.
An article on the danger uncontrolled energy can pose to people at work, and how to reduce the risk of exposure. Different types of energy at work may include biomechanical, gravity (falling), kinetic (movement), mechanical, electrical, chemical, acoustical (noise), pressure (weight), microbiological (germs), radiation and thermal (heat).
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