Health and safety management
Find health and safety guidance specific to school property, traffic and school transport.
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Roles and responsibilities
Health and safety is everyone’s responsibility.
The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 introduced a new approach to workplace health and safety by adopting broad coverage and involving all types of modern business and working relationships.
The Act requires persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) to consult, cooperate and coordinate activities with other PCBUs who share health and safety duties on the same matter.
This includes:
- the Ministry of Education
- school boards
- contractors
- consultants.
Consulting with PCBUs factsheet [PDF, 206 KB]
WorkSafe NZ: Multiple PCBUs – YouTube(external link)
WorkSafe NZ: Overlapping duties – YouTube
(external link)
Health and safety management
| Managing contractors | |
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| Responsibilities when engaging a contractor | |
| Health and safety during a project | |
| Responsibilities, risk management information | |
| Responsibilities, risk management during construction | |
| When and how to get a police vet for contractors | Police vetting for school property contractors |
| YouTube resource | Keeping safe on a construction site – WorkSafe(external link) |
| YouTube resource | Worker participation: If it doesn’t look right call it – WorkSafe(external link) |
| Critical risk activities | |
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| Processes, regulations, resources | Managing asbestos in schools |
| Health and safety responsibilities around safe use | Electrical equipment testing in schools |
| Standards, guidance and information | Electrical work in schools |
| WorkSafe resource | Planning entry and working safely in a confined space – WorkSafe (external link) |
| WorkSafe resource | Particular hazardous work (Notifiable works) – WorkSafe(external link) |
| Urgent work | |
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| What to do if an urgent issue is identified | Urgent health and safety work |
| Hazardous materials and substances | |
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| Advice for managing the risks | Chromated copper arsenate (CCA) treated timber in schools |
| Types, standards, maintenance advice | Glass installed in schools |
| Information, resources and guidance | Hazardous substances on school sites |
| Information and advice | Lead-based paint |
| Advice, resources | PCBs in light fittings |
| Information, resources | Poisonous plants |
| Helpful advice | Moulds and fungi |
| WorkSafe resources | Managing your lab's hazardous substances – WorkSafe(external link) |
| Facilities and fixtures | |
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| Funding, maintenance and disposal advice | Boilers for school heating |
| What is and isn't allowed | Cellphone towers on school sites |
| Design standards, maintenance and other advice | Lifts in schools |
| Installation and design advice | Fencing at schools |
| Information and operational advice | Joinery and hardware installed in schools |
| Information, resources and maintenance advice | Septic tanks on school sites |
| Links to helpful resources | Swimming pools at schools |
| Advice for schools, teachers and general staff | Managing thermal comfort in classrooms |
| Drinking water | |
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| Causes, how to deal, paying for | Backflow prevention |
| Town or self-supply information | Drinking water quality |
| Weathertightness | |
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| Information, downloadable resources | Weathertightness remediation |
| Fire | |
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| Requirements, advice, resources | Fire safety design requirements (including developing evacuation procedures) |
| Requirements and advice | Fire safety |
| 'Specified systems and features' | |
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| Advice, resources, legal responsibilities | Building warrants of fitness for school facilities |
| Vehicles | |
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| Advice, paying for, resources | |
| Guidelines for reporting accidents | Accidents and incidents on school transport |
| Advice for managing students who use buses | Safety and behaviour on school transport |
Health and safety responsibilities
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 – NZ Legislation(external link)
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