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Reduce workplace exposures

Workplaces will have health and safety instruction to protect you from workplace exposures may cause cancer or other conditions.

By law, businesses must manage health risks caused by their work. If you are an employee, make sure to follow health and safety instructions.

Some of the more common cancers caused by workplace exposures include:

  • work-related skin cancers
  • asbestos-related mesotheliomas (a type of lung cancer)
  • shift work-related cancers.

Simply being exposed does not necessarily mean that you will develop cancer. Many factors influence whether a person will develop cancer, including the amount and duration of the exposure and a person's genetic background.

WorkSafe is developing an action plan to reduce exposures to carcinogens at work. For more information on mitigating risks at work, visit the WorkSafe website .

For information on how workplaces can manage and monitor workplace UV exposure, visit the Wellplace NZ website.