The changes made to the Health and Safety Act were made for all the right reasons out of the Pike River Mine disaster but if the same rules prevent kids from climbing trees, what's really been achieved?

A Hamilton roadworker was in serious condition after being run over by a digger this evening.

Boards need to move from being reactive to proactive, says Simon Arcus, chief executive of the Institute of Directors.

Being the lawyer who represented the NZ-based Pike River mine directors and chief executive following the 2010 tragedy, Stacey Shortall knows better than most the nuances and legislative minefields attached to health and safety issues

Better workplace relationships and risk reduction go hand in hand, a safety expert tells Helen Twose.

Law change means companies need to check their insurance policies, writes Tim McCready

600 to 900 Kiwis die from work-related diseases. The Health and Safety at Work Act aim to reduce workplace deaths and serious injuries by 25 per cent by 2020.

The director of a Matamata construction company whose worker was buried alive has been ordered to four months' home detention.

A man was crushed to death in a workplace incident at a rubbish tip on Auckland's North Shore today.

A man has died in a workplace incident in Christchurch this afternoon after he was trapped under the ramp of a truck.

Fullers Group Limited pleaded guilty to two breaches following a ferry crash that injured more than a dozen.

Worksafe will need to show its approach to farm safety is reducing workplace casualties or farmers could find themselves being held to account in the courts.

Police have released the name of a man killed while working at a Huntly manufacturing business.

The quarry industry wants the public's help to improve safety after four deaths in the sector so far this year.

A Japanese food importing company has been sentenced over the death of a worker in a forklift accident.

A company has been fined after a woman fell causing spinal fractures and a spinal cord injury

Stephen Bishop has had his manslaughter charged dropped after a workplace death for admitting lesser charges.

A man crushed between two trucks at a Christchurch work site this morning has died in hospital, police have confirmed.

A businessman has been fined for obstructing investigations after children were injured in an inflatable slide collapse.

Terry Milne, who died in a workplace accident this week, was "a great family man with a big heart" and his boss says the Otorohanga man will be deeply missed.

A Northland man has died on a farm after his vehicle rolled this morning.

A Canterbury boss has been fined thousands of dollars after his employee's thumb was severed by an unguarded machine used to cut firewood.

Double-amputee hit with fine for parking his specialist van across two car spaces because he needed room to exit the vehicle in his wheelchair.

Police believe John Douglas Howe was struck by a truck in the driveway in South Auckland on Wednesday.

His workmates frantically tried to dig him out but he died at the scene.

A 54-year-old man died in a workplace accident in South Auckland this afternoon.

A man who died in a grader accident was unwell and threw up in the cab before slipping in his vomit, falling out of the machine and running himself over: coroner.

This week's anniversary of the Pike River mining disaster has sparked the need for workplace health and safety attitudes to change.

An Auckland company where an experienced crane operator was crushed to death has been ordered to pay $116,000.