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As New Zealand moves into traffic light RED, business can refer to the link below for information about what control measures they need to have in place

It can be confusing about what mask to use, take a moment to check out what the differences are.

A lot of people use the beginning of a new year to set goals and milestones they want to reach over the next twelve months. We want to encourage you to use this time to think about what you're going to do for your wellbeing! It could be as simple as going on regular walks outside or catching up with whānau and friends more often. How are you going to look after your wellbeing in 2022? Let us know!

Industrial Compliance Solutions (ICS) have expanded the compliance side of their business to include Occupational Health and Safety monitoring. ICS now also provide Workplace Health monitoring (Lung Function testing, Hearing tests and Vision Tests), Drug testing and Wellness checks, which will be managed by Rachel Kennedy.
Please contact Rachel to discuss your requirements and how ICS can help your business (027 237 9129 or rachel@icsweb.co.nz).

It may not get the coverage it deserves, but America is in the midst of a stress epidemic. In fact, according to a survey conducted by Everyday Health, approximately one-third of people visited a doctor about something stress-related, with 57 percent admitting they’re paralyzed by stress.

Air pollution levels in Auckland's central city exceeded the safe standard for the first time in 10 years after the SkyCity fire.

New research suggests that long-term exposure to traffic-related pollution significantly increases the risk of pediatric asthma, especially in early childhood. Children living within a football field's length of major roadways had nearly three times the odds of pediatric asthma compared to children who lived four times farther away.

Although ozone pollution is dropping across many parts of the United States, western Europe and Japan, many people living in those countries still experience more than a dozen days every year in which levels of the lung irritant exceed health-based standards.
Source: University of Colorado at Boulder

January 2018 was officially the hottest month ever recorded in New Zealand.

Forty intrepid adventurers leave Wellington next week for a six-week scientific voyage to Antarctica.

National reporting on the state of fresh water in New Zealand, the pressures on this state, and what that means for us and the environment. It also has interactive maps you can use to check the water quality for swimming of our rivers and lakes.

The Ministry for the Environment's overview of likely climate change impacts in New Zealand. Links to information that local government can use to prepare its response to climate change.

Toxic NO2 pollution affects most of urban areas of the UK, but London is worst hit. View live data from the capital to see which sites are breaking legal limits

Airborne dust is normally seen as an environmental problem, but the lack of it is making air pollution over China considerably worse.

Apathy and poor policy contributing to slow death of waterways in so-called ‘100% Pure NZ’

BEIJING — The Chinese capital was on the second-highest level of smog alert Tuesday, but city officials said the air quality was improving overall, citing data for last year.

Air pollution in the UK is a “public health emergency”, according to a cross-party committee of MPs, who say the government needs to do much more including introducing a scrappage scheme for old, dirty diesel vehicles.

New Zealand needs its government to incentivise carbon reductions at home, say scientists, rather than buying carbon credits.

High levels of pollution are being emitted by diesel vehicles built by a range of carmakers other than Volkswagen, it has been reported.

The Hon. Greg Hunt MP, Minister for the Environment, today announced the Clean Air Society of Australia and
New Zealand (CASANZ) as the latest Clean Air Champion.

In July 2015, the Mayor of London Boris Johnson released a report that estimated that a total of 9,400 deaths in
London in 2010 were attributable to long-term exposure to air pollution of dangerous airborne particles (PM2.5)
and the toxic gas NO2.. This compares with 8,400 deaths a year in London from smoking.