16 Sep 2021

Whakaari/White Island: Independent WorkSafe review months overdue

From Morning Report, 7:46 am on 16 September 2021

A review of WorkSafe's handling of operations on Whakaari/White Island before the deadly eruption took place is now months overdue.

The blast in December 2019 took 22 lives.

In 2020 Minister of Workplace Relations and Safety Michael Wood announced the WorkSafe's own conduct would be independently reviewed, shortly after the regulator laid charges against 13 parties.

Sam Olley reports.