Media Releases

Media Releases: prior to 2000

These links are to information releases from the Department from prior to 2000

date	subject
20 Nov 1999	Work Safe this Summer [workplace health & safety]
04 Nov 1999	OSH Urges Safety for the 5th of November [workplace health & safety]
01 Nov 1999	Health Advice for Shearers and Farmers Exposed to Chemical Sprays and Dips [workplace health & safety]
08 Oct 1999	Small Businesses targeted in safety drive [workplace health & safety]
06 Oct 1999	Familiarity Breeds Death and Injury [workplace health & safety]
04 Oct 1999	OSH Calls for Farmers to Think "Safety" [workplace health & safety]
04 Oct 1999	It's Time to "Play Your Part" [workplace health & safety]
28 Sep 1999	AFFCO Staff Get to Play Their Part in National Worksafe Week [workplace health & safety]
02 Sep 1999	No Room For Complacency After Drop in Workplace Deaths [workplace health & safety]
14 Jun 1999	New Group to Focus on Workplace Safety and Health [workplace health & safety]
14 May 1999	New Safety Rules to Cut Forestry Deaths [workplace health & safety]
27 Apr 1999	Prosecutions Show No Tolerance of Workplace Deaths [workplace health & safety]
17 Mar 1999	New Safety Measures Target Machinery Roll-Over Deaths [workplace health & safety]
22 Feb 1999	OSH Trademarked to Ward off Imposters [workplace health & safety]
20 Jan 1999	Summer Heat Can Create Hazards, Warns OSH [workplace health & safety]
14 Jan 1999	Regulations Controlling Working with Asbestos Tightened [workplace health & safety]
12 Jan 1999	Workplace Fatalities Prompt Warnings to New Zealand Workers [workplace health & safety]
30 Nov 1998	Christmas can mean Danger in the Workplace, Warns OSH [workplace health & safety]
02 Nov 1998	Busy Time for OSH Dangerous Goods and Explosives Team [workplace health & safety]
28 Oct 1998	ATV Injuries and Deaths Linked With Speed and Terrain [workplace health & safety]
17 Oct 1998	Occupational Illness [workplace health & safety]
11 Oct 1998	Assurance By OSH of Workscheme Coverage [workplace health & safety]
09 Oct 1998	Bradford Hits on Dr Aargh [workplace health & safety]
07 Oct 1998	OSH Fears For State of Workers' Health [workplace health & safety]
06 Oct 1998	Workplace Accidents Cost The Country $4.2 Billion [workplace health & safety]
05 Oct 1998	OSH Tells New Zealand "No Job Is Worth Dying For" [workplace health & safety]
17 Sep 1998	Update On Health And Safety Audit Of New Zealand's Mortuaries [workplace health & safety]
27 Aug 1998	Young Deaths on Farms Shocking [workplace health & safety]
08 Jul 1998	One Death Is One Too Many [workplace health & safety]
06 Jul 1998	Blitz Figures Shine In A Dark Year For Workplace Death [workplace health & safety]
18 May 1998	OSH Targets Worker Stress and Fatigue [workplace health & safety]
12 May 1998	OSH Releases report into state of country's mortuaries [workplace health & safety]
11 May 1998	OSH Supports International Nurses Day [workplace health & safety]
04 May 1998	OSH Construction Blitz Launched [workplace health & safety]
01 Apr 1998	Another world first for NZ: Preventing injury in Libraries [workplace health & safety]
27 Mar 1998	OSH Announce result of investigation into death at Wellington Polytechnic [workplace health & safety]
17 Mar 1998	Changes to HSE Act come into force tomorrow [workplace health & safety]
03 Mar 1998	Amendment lends clarification to H&S Law [workplace health & safety]
17 Feb 1998	OSH Horror at death of youth prompts urgent alert [workplace health & safety]
23 Jan 1998	Carisbrook death investigation complete [workplace health & safety]
22 Jan 1998	Deaths spark Nation-wide crackdown on unsafe construction sites [workplace health & safety]
14 Jan 1998	Workplace deaths tragic start to New Year [workplace health & safety]
08 Jan 1998	State of New Zealand's Mortuaries [workplace health & safety]
04 Dec 1997	Temperature Guidelines Launch [workplace health & safety]
19 Nov 1997	MOSHH Package Launch [workplace health & safety]
19 Nov 1997	MOSHH Package Launch speech notes [workplace health & safety]
10 Oct 1997	OOS 'Big Problem' not just in the office [workplace health & safety]
09 Oct 1997	Farming: New Zealand's deadliest industry [workplace health & safety]
08 Oct 1997	Forestry Workers 70 x More Likely to Die at Work [workplace health & safety]
07 Oct 1997	Construction Workers Fall to Their Deaths [workplace health & safety]
06 Oct 1997	Worksafe week - Together to Zero - Eliminating Workplace Death [workplace health & safety]
23 Sep 1997	OOS Management kit for the Meat, Poultry and Fish processing industries [workplace health & safety]
02 Sep 1997	Death Targeted in First National Worksafe Week [workplace health & safety]
Aug 1997	Warning issued over tree-felling near powerlines [workplace health & safety]
01 Aug 1997	Fatal use of older chainsaws concerns OSH [workplace health & safety]
30 Jul 1997	OSH Shocked at Forestry's Deadliest Week [workplace health & safety]
18 Jul 1997	OSH completes audit following luge accident [workplace health & safety]
30 Jun 1997	Sexy stats and pertinent points for easy reference [workplace health & safety]
20 Jun 1997	Beekeeper's death highlights need for farm safety [workplace health & safety]
06 Jun 1997	OSH to prosecute Palmerston North City Council [workplace health & safety]
05 Jun 1997	New Policy to combat lung disease Silicosis [workplace health & safety]
11 Apr 1997	NZ Leads western world in rates of significant but neglected disease [workplace health & safety]
27 Feb 1997	Government response to OSH inquiry tabled today [workplace health & safety]

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