Health and safety

type: Article
date: 9 Sep 2025
read time: 3 min to read

Boards urged to ‘join dots’ on safety and productivity

Workplace harm cost $5.4 billion in 2024. Injuries are down, but time off per injury has doubled over the past decade, says new report.

Health and safety
Leadership

IMHO: Putting Pacific worker safety on the governance agenda

OPINION

type: Article
date: 8 Sep 2025
read time: 4 min to read

IMHO: Putting Pacific worker safety on the governance agenda

As a Pacific trailblazer in ergonomics, Dr Kolose is shaping safer workplaces through board leadership.

Diversity
Health and safety

Health and safety legal update – further uncertainty for directors

DENTONS

type: Article
date: 8 Aug 2025
read time: 3 min to read

Health and safety legal update – further uncertainty for directors

Court decisions and regulatory reform are changing the health and safety governance landscape.

From our sponsors
Health and safety

type: Article
date: 8 Aug 2025
read time: 5 min to read

Governance news bites – 8 August 2025

A collection of governance-related news you might have missed in the past two weeks.

Health and safety

type: Article
date: 28 May 2025
read time: 3 min to read

From Aotearoa to Arup: New Zealand’s health and safety governance guide goes glo...

What connects Arup’s boardrooms and New Zealand’s directors? A shared toolkit for governing health and safety well.

Health and safety

Health and safety reforms: a legal perspective

Dentons

type: Article
date: 4 Apr 2025
read time: 4 min to read

Health and safety reforms: a legal perspective

Whether the changes reduce the confusion, uncertainty and cost associated with compliance remains to be seen.

From our sponsors
Health and safety

Health and safety reforms: why directors must still hold firm

HSE Global

type: Article
date: 4 Apr 2025
read time: 2 min to read

Health and safety reforms: why directors must still hold firm

The bottom line is directors still need to apply good governance in how their organisations manage risk.

Compliance
From our sponsors
Health and safety

type: Article
date: 3 Apr 2025
read time: 1 min to read

A win for governance: Minister signals support for directors’ role in H&S

New health and safety reforms confirm the board’s role is oversight, not operations, echoing the IoD’s long-held position.

Health and safety

CPD

1 day • Face to face learning

Advanced Health and Safety Governance

Learn how to meet your obligations for health and safety in your organisation using recent case law examples.

Compliance
Health and safety

CPD

1 day • Face to face learning

Audit and Risk Committees

Are you asking the right questions about financial integrity and risk? In today's complex governance landscape, effective audit and risk oversight is about more than compliance and about helping your organisation build resilience, protect value, and make sound decisions.

Audit
Health and safety
Liability

CPD

2 days • Face to face learning

Chairing the Board

Gain the specialist skills needed to succeed as chair. Explore best practice, robust policy, composition, balance, and culture.

CEOs
Chairing
Conflict of interests

CPD

2 hours • Online

Health and Safety Governance

Understand your legal obligations as a director under the Health and Safety at Work Act.

Accountability
Compliance
Director duties

CPD

20 minutes • Online

The Board's Role in Mental Health and Wellbeing

This online module has been developed to support directors and boards in their role in relation to workplace mental health and wellbeing.

Health and safety
Wellbeing

CPD

6 hours • Online

Advanced Health and Safety Governance Online

Learn how to meet your obligations as a director responsible for health and safety in your organisation.

Compliance
Health and safety