Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden is consulting on proposed changes to health and safety regulations to better support ...

Health and Safety experts say the Government need to consider people's lives as they set to change scaffolding regulations.

Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden is keen to simplify New Zealand’s health and safety rules. This ...

A group in New Zealand has called for action to tackle Campylobacter in fresh chicken meat. The Public Health Communication ...

Changes to a decades-long needle exchange contract have left a Christchurch drug-user and health expert worried the decision ...

Dr Anna Skinner, the Chief Clinical Advisor for Primary Care at Health New Zealand, told Checkpoint that the change would help eliminate barriers for people to get treatment. "People have been ...

National’s funding cuts have forced the closure of mental health facility Segar House – cutting jobs and leaving those with ...

Recent compliance checks on vape retailers across Auckland found that while the majority were compliant, just under 10 per cent failed to adhere to new laws restricting the promotion of vapes. A ...

A group of Iwi Māori Partnerships Boards (IMPBs) are concerned changes to New Zealand's health legislation will weaken the voices of local Māori communities and centralise decision-making in ...

There's calls for law changes among experts after a 2-month-old baby died after she was allegedly given medication at an adult dosage by a pharmacy.

A new generation of low-emission wood heaters that produce a fraction of the particulate pollution of current models could ...