NZIHSM Codes of Practice

The following Codes of Practice are intended as a guideline to members and other authorised parties under the HSNO Act. NZIHSM practice notes display a PDF icon and can be directly accessed. The others sections include links to further information about the relevant code of practice.

Regulations

The following PDFs are current at 07 March 2019.

HSNO Legislation, Regulations & Codes of Practice

The following partial list of HSWA & HSNO relevant Legislation, Regulations and Codes of practice are intended as a guideline to members and other interested and authorised parties of relevant legislation under the HSWA & HSNO Act . These are available from the links shown under the relevant page headings below.

Relevant Legislations and regulations

Online resources:

The Environmental Protection Authority Act can be found at: The EPA Act
The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 can be found at The HSWA Act
The Hazardous Substances Regulations 2017 can be found at: HSNO Regulations 2017
Deemed regulations can be found at: Parliamentary Counsel Office
The Resource Management Act 1991 can be found at: The Resource Management Act
The Climate Change Response Act 2002 can be found at: The Climate Change Response Act
The Ozone Layer Protection Act 1996 can be found at: The Ozone Layer Protection Act
The Imports and Exports (Restrictions) Act 1988 can be found at: The Imports and Exports (Restrictions) Act

All of these Acts can be found at www.legislation.govt.nz

Hazardous Substances Regulations

The Hazardous Substance and New Organisms legislation can be found at: www.legislation.govt.nz with commonly used regulations as follows:

Work place SWI and EPA Notices

The latest copy of these Codes of Practice as prepared by the Environmental Protection Authority can be found at www.epa.govt.nz.

EPA Notices for Hazardous Substances

Rules for Hazardous Substances

WorkSafe Safe Work Instruments