Road cone hotline logs nearly 1,100 tips, 60% in first month

One full-time contractor is employed to administer the hotline and three additional full-time staff provide support on top of their existing workload. (Image: Dean Purcell/NZME)

John Anthony

Mon, 29 Sep 2025

A hotline for the public to report overzealous road cone use has received 1,089 valid notifications, with more than half of these coming in the first month.In June, Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety Brooke van Velden announced the launch of WorkSafe’s 12-month road cone hotline pilot to look into and provide guidance on instances of excessive use of road cones.The road cone digital hotline form asks submitters to specify the type of site where the road cones are being used, the impact of the road cones, and why they believe the...

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