Early in February the Health and Safety at Work Amendment Bill passed its first reading and is now open for public submissions. The draft legislation is a significant change to the health and safety regime that currently operates in New Zealand.  

The Bill’s central aim is to refocus New Zealand’s health and safety system on preventing serious harm (“critical risks”), while reducing unnecessary compliance and increasing certainty for businesses.  

Below is a short, anonymous survey for you to complete to provide your own thoughts and comments on the draft legislation.

Safer Farms will be making a submission with input from our members and will take into account any additional commentary from your feedback in this survey. Safer Farms members will have also received an invitation to a webinar next week to discuss this with us further.

If you want to have your say, please fill in this survey by 5 pm on Thursday, March 12th.

Click here for the survey.

Below is a link to the Bill and additional links if you want to read what others have to say.

• Link to Bill  
• Link to Minister van Veldon’s media release
• Link to NZISM media release
• Link to Business Leaders’ Health and Safety Forum media release
• Additional reading on what this may mean for agriculture

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