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.

(From https://www.employment.govt.nz/workplace... )

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://fyi.org.nz/request/23394/respons...

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

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