New Zealand's Health & Safety Amendment Bill — Leading the Way

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Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis discuss New Zealand's Health and Safety at Work Amendment Bill and its implications for workplace safety.

Drop us a note In this episode, due diligence engineers Richard Robinson and Gaye Francis discuss New Zealand's Health and Safety at Work Amendment Bill and explore why New Zealand is leading the in workplace health and safety. They break down the key changes in the amendment, including a sharper focus on critical risk and what this means for both large organisations and small PCBUs. The conversation touches on the real-world prosecutions that appear to have motivated the reform, includ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Richard Robinson, Gaye Francis

Topics covered

• health and safety
• legislation
• workplace safety
• risk management
• New Zealand

Keywords

• Health and Safety
• Amendment Bill
• New Zealand
• workplace health
• critical risk

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Health and Safety at Work Amendment Bill

Places: New Zealand

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