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The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015: Lessons from the past decade, questions for the next three years

Join Auckland branch for an insightful presentation from their new CEO, Jeff Sissons.

The Royal Commission into the Tragedy at Pike River Coal Mine had a seismic effect on health and safety regulation in New Zealand with the creation of a new regulator, WorkSafe NZ, and the passage of a new law, the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and accompanying regulations. We have seen some sustained improvements in fatality and injury rates but New Zealand still lags well behind our peers (such as Australia and the UK).

It’s hard to shake a feeling of drift across the system: uncompleted regulations for plant and structures, reform of HSNO regs needed, a lack of system-wide coordination and direction, and paring back of regulatory resources.

A surprise in the National-Act coalition agreement (as neither party had campaigned on it) was a promise to “reform health and safety law and regulations.” NZISM members and other health and safety experts will all have a list of wished-for improvements. Can we influence Minister van Velden and the Government to deliver improvements and halt the drift?

Jeff's presentation will include some reflections on the previous ten years of progress and some crystal ball gazing and planning as to how NZISM might help to steer health and safety to a happier port.

Bio:

Jeff Sissons is the new CEO of NZISM. He has worked as a lawyer in private practice, health and safety advisor and union official. Jeff saw health and safety reforms up close as General Counsel at the CTU during the formation of WorkSafe and the passage of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and subsequently working as Ministerial Advisor to the Minister of Workplace Relations and Safety from 2017-2020.

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3M

94 Apollo Drive
Rosedale
Auckland
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