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.
Tool 3: Injury and incident reporting processesTool 4: Injury and incident process flowchartTool 5: Causes of injury or illnessNotifiable 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.
Asthma inhalers for emergencies#
Schools must have an authority to possess inhalers in their emergency medical kit for the emergency treatment of asthma. Principals of registered schools must provide a written order for a pharmacy to be able to supply asthma inhalers to a school.
The 'Authority to Possess Medicines (Emergency Medical Kit)' for asthma inhalers is below.
Authority to Possess Medicines (Emergency Medical Kit) - inhalers