A joint submission from 61 companies on the work health and safety regulatory system
Sixty-one New Zealand companies are calling for radical improvements to how the Government supports businesses to manage the risks of harm from work, in a joint submission to a major health and safety review.
The companies which employ close to 200,000 people across the country and who influence close to 80,000 other businesses through their supply chains have come together with one voice to call for six recommendations as part of the Minister of Workplace Relations and Safety’s health and safety review.
Driven by a shared motivation to see an uplift in New Zealand’s workplace health and safety performance; Vector, Z Energy, MinterEllisonRuddWatts, Downer, Auckland Airport, Air New Zealand, Fonterra and 54 other companies spanning multiple industries have developed the submission with the support of the Business Leaders’ Health and Safety Forum.
Read the full submission below, and the media release here.
