Morning Report

New research is beginning into why so many work-related fatalities involve vehicles.

The government agency WorkSafe has put out a tender for a study into the business models and supply chain pressures that contribute to the high death rate, on and off-road.

The editor of Safeguard magazine Peter Bateman says the failings are in plain sight and agencies have been remiss.

The Hurricanes aren't about to ease up after grabbing their first Super Rugby win of the season with a late 26-23 win over the Jaguares in Buenos Aires yesterday.

The coronavirus death toll passes 8-hundred, more than the 2003 Sars outbreak. Safety advocates say working conditions are making driving the number one workplace risk to life. Thailand is in mourning for the 29 victims of a shopping mall mass shooting.

It's Friday so we cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh.

A Hawke's Bay school is believed to be the first in the country to join a global campaign to discourage bullying and improve the mental health of its students by doing up its loos.

They were once grey and drab but now Haumoana School's toilet block is brightly painted and plastered with inspirational slogans.

As Anusha Bradley reports, its seems to be making a difference.

A week of wild weather on the South Island's West Coast has meant a late route change for the Coast to Coast multi-sport race which began today.

A 243 kilometre haul from Kumara Beach to New Brighton Beach in Christchurch, the annual event has long pushed people to their mental and physical limits.

Heavy rain earlier this week put this year's event, quite literally, under a cloud.

Clay Wilson reports.

Waitangi came alive this week with thousands joining to commemorate the signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Politicians and iwi leaders dominated news coverage but Te Aniwa Hurihanganui spoke to some of the less high-profile visitors.

A brief update on the movements in the financial sector.

RNZ is planning to substantially reduce its classical music station RNZ Concert and replace it on FM radio with music for a younger audience.

The move is part of efforts to build a new multimedia music brand and to extend the audience of RNZ.

Young composer Claire Cowan and Duncan Greive ,managing editor of the website The Spinoff, speak to Corin Dann.

The government is being taken to task for failing to act on a 2017 report which found more than 100 'orphan oil and gas wells' around the country had not been properly decommissioned.

Released to RNZ under the Official Information Act, the Petrofac report says these onshore wells "represent an unknown risk to health and safety, and the environment".

RNZ reporter Robin Martin has more.