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ACT Party MP Brooke Van Velden claims the bill offers common sense changes that increase certainty, ease compliance costs and improve safety.
Plans to scale back on health and safety measures will impact the country's economy, as well as worker safety, says the NZ Institute of Safety Management.
Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety Brooke Van Velden's Safety at Work Amendment Bill would exempt businesses with fewer than 20 workers from legally having to manage non-critical safety risks.
The bill sets out to cut death and injury rates, and compliance costs, by focusing on the most serious critical risks and reducing confusion.
