new statistics released today found, causing experts to call for a renewed focus on construction health and safety. This comes after a number of accidents on construction sites recently.

The abolition of departure cards in 2018 forced Statistics NZ to change the way it calculated migration levels. On Thursday it slashed its estimates for migration in 2019. Photo / Grant Bradley ...

MATES in Construction (MATES) was launched in 2019 in response to the high rate of suicide among construction workers. It operates nationally across all district health board regions, aiming to ignite ...

Yet the country’s only postgraduate course in work health and safety is under review as part of a wider cost-cutting exercise at universities. Currently, universities are considering a NZ$128 ...

Yet the country’s only postgraduate course in work health and safety is under review as part of a wider cost-cutting exercise at universities. Currently, universities are considering a NZ$128 ...