WorkSafe New Zealand
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WorkSafe New Zealand is the national workplace health and safety regulator responsible for promoting and enforcing safe work practices across New Zealand.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| WorkSafe New Zealand canonical | 2 |
| WorkSafe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11044715 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: WorkSafe New Zealand Context triple: [New Zealand Crown agencies, includes, WorkSafe New Zealand]
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A.
Work and Income New Zealand
Work and Income New Zealand was a former New Zealand government agency responsible for delivering social welfare benefits and employment services to individuals and families.
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B.
Health and Safety Executive
The Health and Safety Executive is the United Kingdom’s national regulator responsible for enforcing workplace health, safety, and welfare laws and promoting safer working environments.
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C.
Remuneration Authority of New Zealand
The Remuneration Authority of New Zealand is an independent statutory body that sets and reviews the pay and allowances of key public office holders, including senior judges, members of Parliament, and certain local government officials.
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D.
New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions is the country’s peak national body representing and coordinating affiliated trade unions and advocating for workers’ rights.
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E.
Employment Court of New Zealand
The Employment Court of New Zealand is a specialist superior court that adjudicates complex employment disputes and interprets employment law within New Zealand’s judicial system.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: WorkSafe New Zealand Target entity description: WorkSafe New Zealand is the national workplace health and safety regulator responsible for promoting and enforcing safe work practices across New Zealand.
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A.
Work and Income New Zealand
Work and Income New Zealand was a former New Zealand government agency responsible for delivering social welfare benefits and employment services to individuals and families.
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B.
Health and Safety Executive
The Health and Safety Executive is the United Kingdom’s national regulator responsible for enforcing workplace health, safety, and welfare laws and promoting safer working environments.
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C.
Remuneration Authority of New Zealand
The Remuneration Authority of New Zealand is an independent statutory body that sets and reviews the pay and allowances of key public office holders, including senior judges, members of Parliament, and certain local government officials.
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D.
New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions is the country’s peak national body representing and coordinating affiliated trade unions and advocating for workers’ rights.
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E.
Employment Court of New Zealand
The Employment Court of New Zealand is a specialist superior court that adjudicates complex employment disputes and interprets employment law within New Zealand’s judicial system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Crown agent
ⓘ
New Zealand government agency ⓘ workplace health and safety regulator ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
New Zealand Fire and Emergency services
ⓘ
linked to:
Fire and Emergency New Zealand
New Zealand Police ⓘ New Zealand labour inspectors ⓘ |
| country | New Zealand ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
high-risk sectors such as construction, agriculture and forestry
ⓘ
worker engagement and participation in health and safety ⓘ |
| formedBy |
Government of New Zealand
ⓘ
linked to:
New Zealand government
|
| hasObjective |
improve workplace health outcomes
ⓘ
support businesses to manage risks effectively ⓘ |
| hasRole |
educate businesses and workers about health and safety
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enforce workplace health and safety law ⓘ investigate workplace incidents ⓘ monitor and enforce compliance with health and safety legislation ⓘ promote workplace health and safety ⓘ prosecute serious health and safety breaches ⓘ provide guidance on safe work practices ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
New Zealand
ⓘ
Wellington ⓘ |
| inception | 2013 ⓘ |
| issues |
improvement notices
ⓘ
prohibition notices ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | New Zealand ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
ⓘ
WorkSafe New Zealand Act 2013 ⓘ |
| mission |
to reduce work-related fatalities and serious injuries
ⓘ
to transform New Zealand’s health and safety performance ⓘ |
| operationalSince | 2013 ⓘ |
| oversees | implementation of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 ⓘ |
| parentAgency | New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment ⓘ |
| publishes |
approved codes of practice
ⓘ
health and safety guidance for workplaces ⓘ |
| regionServed | New Zealand ⓘ |
| regulates |
health and safety in adventure activities in New Zealand
ⓘ
health and safety in mining in New Zealand ⓘ health and safety in petroleum and geothermal operations in New Zealand ⓘ high-risk work activities in New Zealand ⓘ major hazard facilities in New Zealand ⓘ workplace health and safety in New Zealand ⓘ |
| replaced | health and safety functions of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment ⓘ |
| shortName |
WorkSafe
ⓘ
linked to:
WorkSafe New Zealand
|
| supervisedBy | Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety ⓘ |
| typeOfAgency | independent Crown entity ⓘ |
| website | https://worksafe.govt.nz ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: WorkSafe New Zealand Description of subject: WorkSafe New Zealand is the national workplace health and safety regulator responsible for promoting and enforcing safe work practices across New Zealand.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: WorkSafe New Zealand