72631 (2024). Francisco Hernandez to the Minister of Corrections

72631 (2024). Francisco Hernandez to the Minister of Corrections: How many health and safety incidents, if any, occurred in the Minister's departments, if any, from 1 November 2023 to 1 November 2024?

Hon Mark Mitchell: Corrections employs over 10,000 staff across a variety of different roles, with the overwhelming majority of Corrections’ staff working in frontline positions at many Community Corrections sites and 17 prisons across New Zealand. I am advised that Corrections encourages staff to lodge all health and safety incidents and has introduced a Health and Safety Reporting System to support this. These incidents are then triaged and investigated where required. Reported incidents can vary in nature and would include smaller incidents such as a stubbing a toe on a door frame or water on the ground. I refer the member to the attached table, which provides the number of health and safety incident reports completed between 1 November 2022 to 31 October 2024. This is also my response to WPQ 72633 (2024).