About This Site

The National Occupational Health and Safety Avisory Committee (NOHSAC) is committed to protecting the privacy and security of visitors to this website.

Web Administrator

If you have any comments or queries about this site, please email them to the administrator at admin@nohsac.govt.nz.

Privacy

On some downloadable forms, applicants are asked to provide some personal details, such as names and addresses. This information is kept secure within NOHSAC and is not disclosed to other parties except where such disclosure is required or permitted by the Privacy Act 1993 or otherwise required or permitted by law.

Application Design

This website has been designed for optimum viewing on browser versions 4 and above of Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, and compatibility with versions 4 of these same applications.

It has been designed in accordance with the principles of accessibility and usability as outlined in the New Zealand e-government agencies'/web guidelines available at: www.e-government.govt.nz/web-guidelines.

Adobe Acrobat and PDF files

Some of the content on this site such as Media Statement, Minutes and other publications is provided as PDF (Portable Document Format) files. You'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read PDF files. You can download this at the Adobe site by going to http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html

Access Keys

The site can be used without a mouse. There are shortcut keys that will take you to commonly used pages such as the home page and the search page.

To use these shortcut keys hold down the ALT key (PC) or CONTROL key (Apple Macintosh) and then one of the keys in the table below. In some browsers you may have to press enter to confirm your choice. In the Opera 7 browser press Shift-Esc , release those keys, and then press your chosen access key.

0 - List of access keys
1 - Home
3 - Search
[ - Skip to Content
> - About this site
# - Copyright
! - Privacy
/ - govt.nz portal

Security

Our website has security measures in place to prevent the loss, misuse and alteration of information under our control.

Cookies

Cookies are not used anywhere on our website.

Reporting

Each time a visitor comes to our website, we collect basic technical information such as the visitor's domain name, referral data and browser type. This information is compiled for management reporting purposes and to help us develop our website.

Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, the information available on or through this website is protected by Crown copyright. Such information may be reproduced for personal or in-house use without further permission, provided that it is attributed to the National Occupational Health and Safety Advisory Committee. Requests and enquiries concerning the reproduction of information on this website for any purpose other than personal or in-house use should be directed to NOHSAC at admin@nohsac.govt.nz.

Disclaimer

Access to or use of this website constitutes consent to the following terms.

The information available on or through this website is intended to provide general information to the public. All reasonable measures have been taken to ensure the quality and accuracy of this information.

Those accessing this website are advised:

1. NOHSAC makes no warranty, express or implied, nor assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, correctness, completeness or use of any information that is available on or through this website, nor represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights.
2. NOHSAC may change, delete, add to or otherwise amend information contained on this website without notice.
3. The content of this website should not be construed as legal, business or tax advice and visitors to this site should take specific advice from qualified professional people before undertaking any action following information received from this website.
4. Each page on this website must be read in conjunction with this disclaimer and any other disclaimer that forms part of it.
5. This notice of disclaimer applies to any information printed or downloaded from the web server.

Links to Other Sites

For convenience and information purposes only, this website contains links to third-party websites. These sites are independent of NOHSAC and we are not responsible for their content or for any further links included on them. Their inclusion on our website does not imply any endorsement by us.

These other sites may also contain information that is the copyright of third parties and subject to restrictions on reuse. Permission to use copyrighted material from other websites must be obtained from the copyright owner and cannot be obtained from NOHSAC.