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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]