LibGuides: Plumbing, Roofing and Gasfitting Trades: Health and Safety

Websites

Worksafe NZ
WorkSafe New Zealand is New Zealand’s workplace health and safety regulator.
Our focus is to embed and promote good workplace health and safety practices. We are also the regulator for electricity and gas safety in the workplace and home.
Worksafe - working at heights
Worksafe - be safe working on roofs fact sheet
Energy Safety - WorkSafe
Templates for Certificates of Compliance (CoC) and Gas Safety Certificates (GSC) that can be used by gasfitters to certify gasfitting. You can complete the information required in these templates and save them for your records and for sending to your clients.
Site Safe
Assists construction businesses to improve their health and safety culture; to control hazards and reduce injuries

Standards

Following NZ Standards is an important part of Health and Safety for you and your customers. See the databases page in this guide for more information on standards.

Library Resources

Falls from Height by Loui McCurley
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781118640449
Publication Date: 2013
Health and Safety at Work Act: A Practical Guide by Heather McKenzie
Call Number: 344.0465 MCK
ISBN: 9780947514686
Publication Date: 2016
Occupational safety and health for technologists, engineers and managers by Goetsch, David L.
Call Number: 363.1196 GOE
ISBN: 9781292061993
Publication Date: 2015