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From: Erika Whittome <[FOI #25802 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2024 8:03 PM
To: Ministerial Services – WorkSafe
<[email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - What are the workplaces at which
Covid-19 arises out of the nature of the work?

 

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Dear WorkSafe New Zealand,

Employment New Zealand which is part of MBIE has the following advice on
their website regarding the risks of Covid-19:

Employer vaccination requirements for work

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A business or workplace may consider a vaccination requirement is
appropriate based on a work health and safety risk assessment under the
Health and Safety at Work Act.

 

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Section 199 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 has a requirement
for work related notifiable diseases to be reported to the regulator which
is Worksafe.

 

A few months ago, I requested the details of the reports of Covid-19 in
the workplace under S199 of HSWA to Worksafe and received this response :
:https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlo...

 

1. Would you please share how many workplaces you were informed of, OR
were aware of that have/had Covid-19 as a disease which arose in the
workplace as a result of the nature of work taking place?

2. Would you please share the type of workplaces these workplaces are/were
and which industry they are in, eg health sector, bioengineering,
education, construction etc.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Erika Whittome

 

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Kia ora Erika,

 

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Kia ora Erika

Thank you for your reply.

WorkSafe does not hold any information on workplaces reporting COVID-19 as a disease which arose as a result of the nature of the work taking place.

The information provided to you in our reply was the number of notifications of COVID-19 under section 199 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 since December 2019 up until the present day.

You can read more about section 199 notifications here: https://www.worksafe.govt.nz/notificatio....

Ngâ mihi

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-----Original Message-----
From: Erika Whittome <[FOI #25802 email]>
Sent: Sunday, March 3, 2024 10:57 PM
To: Ministerial Services – WorkSafe <[email address]>
Subject: Re: OIA (240120) - Response

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Dear Ministerial Services – WorkSafe,

Thank you for sharing the report. Please would you aupply the information I asked:
how many workplaces was Worksafe aware of that have or had Covid-19 as a disease which arose in the workplace as a result of the nature of work taking place?

Yours sincerely,

Erika Whittome

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Kia ora Erika,

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