Story: Workplace safety and accident compensation

More links and websites

• Accident Compensation Corporation

  The ACC site provides information about the corporation’s structure and functions.

• WorkSafe New Zealand

  WorkSafe New Zealand is the government agency that enforces health and safety law and provides workplace assessments, guidance and training.

• Hazel Armstrong’s book Blood on the coal is also available online.

More suggestions and sources

• Armstrong, Hazel. Blood on the coal: the origins and future of New Zealand’s accident compensation scheme. Wellington: Trade Union History Project, 2008.

• Campbell, Ian. Compensation for personal injury in New Zealand: its rise and fall. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1996.

• Eldred-Grigg, Stevan. New Zealand working people 1890 to 1990. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 1990.

• Macfie, Rebecca. Tragedy at Pike River mine: how and why 29 men died. Wellington: Awa Press, 2013.

• Slappendel, Carol (ed.). Health and safety in New Zealand workplaces. Palmerston North: The Dunmore Press, 1995.

• Tennant, Margaret. Paupers and providers: charitable aid in New Zealand. Wellington: Allen & Unwin and Historical Branch, Dept of Internal Affairs, 1989.