Manage and report injuries or illnesses at school

This is a requirement under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.

Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 – New Zealand Legislation

Incident reporting processes

Use the below resources to review your school's injury and incident reporting processes.

Notifiable events

Notifiable events must be reported to WorkSafe. This includes events that involve students.

WorkSafe has information about what events must be notified to them.

What events need to be notified? – WorkSafe

Manage infectious illness

Boards are legally required to manage any potential or actual outbreaks of communicable diseases.

Managing infections disease cases in schools