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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