• NOHSAC Profile
• Authors and Acknowledgements
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• List of Acronyms
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Occupational Health and Safety in New Zealand
• Stakeholder Concerns
• National Profiles of Occupational Health and Safety in Five Countries (United Kingdom, United States of America, Finland, Canada, Australia)
• Lessons and Conclusions
• Recommendations
• References
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2
• Appendix 3

References and footnotes

i. This funding was identified as occupational health and safety funding but was not transferred as the services were considered to be best delivered by ACC.

ii. This included 25 FTE Health Protection Officers and 55 FTE in public health nurses and Medical Officers of Health.

iii. The resources identified by the transition team excluded $204,000 in capital.

iv. There is currently one vacancy at the Department of Labour for this position.

v. Some health and safety inspectors have qualifications in occupational health but the data does not enable a clear distinction of these inspectors from other safety-oriented inspectors.

vi. Field active inspectors are defined as gazetted inspectors whose role is to spend the majority of their time enforcing provisions of the OHS legislation directly with workplaces i.e. a compliance field role. They do not include managers of the inspectorate.

vii. CPI – Reserve Bank Calculator

viii. The analysis undertaken in the report only used fatalities from injuries, making adjustments where possible for differences in scope and coverage. The data were then standardised to take account of different industry mixes, and finally, a three-year average was calculated to remove some of the volatility that results from working with small numbers.

ix. ACC Press Release, 14 August 2006.

x. This recommendation has major implications for occupational health and safety workforce training and development, which will be the subject of a future NOHSAC report.

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This document is available on NOHSAC’s website www.nohsac.govt.nz. It can be freely quoted, copied and circulated with appropriate acknowledgement. The suggested citation is: Pearce N, Dryson E, Gander P, Langley J, Wagstaffe M. National profile of occupational health and safety in New Zealand. Report to the Minister of Labour. NOHSAC: Wellington, 2007.