Government plans to apply "experience rating" - essentially a no- or low-claims discount on employers' ACC levies - from April next year.

Privatisation should only be allowed if there is evidence it will improve the system, former ACC chairman Ross Wilson says.

Several sheets of glass fell on men unloading a shipping container, one breaking and causing fatal wounds to a worker yesterday, police say.

Large sheets of glass crashed down and killed a man at an industrial site last night. Four of his colleagues were injured trying to rescue him.

Police slam the "negligent behaviour" of a person who informed the wrong family about a tragic logging death after listening in on a police scanner.

An eavesdropper informed the wrong family that a relative of their's had died following a forestry accident today.

The Department of Labour has confirmed it is prosecuting an Auckland secondary school over a fatal boiler explosion in June.

Auckland secondary school says it will vigorously defend any charges it might face over fatal explosion.