{"id":184542,"date":"2025-12-15T08:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/184542\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T08:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:32:09","slug":"worksafe-takes-enforcement-action-against-daycare-at-centre-of-chemical-burns-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/184542\/","title":{"rendered":"WorkSafe takes enforcement action against daycare at centre of chemical burns incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>15 Dec, 2025 05:28 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Hato Hone St John treated multiple patients at a daycare centre in Woolston. Photo \/ Nathan McKinnon, RNZ<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">WorkSafe has taken enforcement action against a Christchurch childcare centre where at least five children suffered chemical burns earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Five children and two adults were taken to hospital after a steriliser chemical was mistaken for detergent and used on a children\u2019s slip<br \/>\n         and slide at Kindercare in Woolston.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/worksafe\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/worksafe\/\">WorkSafe<\/a> southern regional manager Adrian van Dyk said it had issued an improvement notice to the centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe found the centre was not sufficiently managing risks to health and safety associated with hazardous substances, in particular the use and storage of detergent sanitiser,\u201d van Dyk said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 15 Dec, 2025 05:28 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[432,9092,1975,51003,1550,31515,85768,17900,671,111,43,139,69,1118,1120,17705],"class_list":["post-184542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-action","tag-against","tag-at","tag-burns","tag-centre","tag-chemical","tag-daycare","tag-enforcement","tag-incident","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-takes","tag-worksafe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}