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.

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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
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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

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

IoD welcomes clarification of health and safety duties, says more could be done

The Government is clarifying the duties of directors in health and safety, a move we advocated for.

Health and safety
Liability

type: Guide
date: 6 Mar 2025
read time: 39 min to read

Food safety governance guide

This guide, developed by New Zealand Food Safety, helps you to understand your responsibilities in relation to food safety.

Health and safety

Former Port of Auckland chief executive sentenced

Dentons

type: Article
date: 4 Mar 2025
read time: 1 min to read

Former Port of Auckland chief executive sentenced

The first conviction of an officer of a large company under the Health and Safety at Work Act has resulted in a $130,000 fine.

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Health and safety

type: Article
date: 5 Feb 2025
read time: 3 min to read

Prioritising safety for leaders and boards – lessons from a tragedy

Keeping our people, and ourselves, safe is a governance imperative.

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

Panel Discussion • 2 CPD

Why Pacific voices make governance stronger

time: 5pm—7:30pm
date: 21 Aug 2025
location: Christchurch