NZ's statistics on deaths and illness at work are sobering -- yet, health and safety training courses are under threat
- Written by: Joanne Crawford, Worksafe New Zealand Chair in Health and Safety, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Shutterstock/S M WilkinsNew Zealand has an abysmal record of work-related deaths. An estimated 10,000 people – men, women and sometimes children – have died from occupational ill health or workplace fatalities since 2010. A further 420,000 people were injured at work.
Yet the country’s only postgraduate course in work health and...
