{"id":14489,"date":"2025-08-01T17:40:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14489"},"modified":"2025-08-01T17:40:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:40:57","slug":"calls-to-road-cone-hot-line-drop-off-latest-worksafe-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14489","title":{"rendered":"Calls to road cone hot line drop off, latest Worksafe data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Worksafe data shows calls into the road cone hotline has dropped dramatically since its launch.<\/p>\n<p>The data showed in the month of July Worksafe received 217 reports of excessive road cone use,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/563042\/98-road-cone-reports-on-hotline-s-first-day\">down from 641 in June.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hotline was set up as part of changes to health and safety, following a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/political\/562876\/brooke-van-velden-shifts-worksafe-s-focus-from-enforcement-to-advice\">directive by workplace relations and safety minister Brooke van Velden<\/a>\u00a0telling Worksafe to shift its focus from enforcement to advice.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worksafe.govt.nz\/notifications\/road-cones\/road-cone-reports-data\/#footnote\">217 reports<\/a>\u00a0were lodged with Auckland Transport (79) and NZTA (62), with a heat map showing the Auckland, Wellington and Canterbury regions as some of the most reported on.<\/p>\n<p>The over first seven days the online hotline was active there were 406 reports, nearly double the total number reported in July.<\/p>\n<p>The minister has been asked for comment.<\/p>\n<p>~VIA RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest Worksafe data shows calls into the road cone hotline has dropped dramatically since its launch. The data showed in the month of July Worksafe received 217 reports of excessive road cone use,\u00a0down from 641 in June. The hotline was set up as part of changes to health and safety, following a\u00a0directive by workplace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,222,208,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-latest-news","category-lifestyle","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14491,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14489\/revisions\/14491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}