Alert: Reduced holiday hours: notifications and general enquiries
If someone has been seriously injured, become seriously ill, or died as a result of work - phone us on 0800 030 040 straight away.
Notifications made through our online form won't be monitored between 2pm on Friday 20 December and 8.30am Monday 6 January 2020.
Work-related health is about the interaction between a person’s work and their health. For WorkSafe, it’s about the way work can impact on worker’s’ health and the way their health may impact on working safely.
Today, work-related health shares our focus with work-related safety – with good reason. Each year, an estimated 750-900 people die in New Zealand from work-related disease. And there are an estimated 5000-6000 hospitalisations each year due to work-related ill-health.
A work-related injury is often immediately visible. However, the effects of exposure to a work-related health hazard may not become visible for days, weeks, months or even decades.
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