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In April 2013 an independent taskforce produced a report on the state of health and safety in New Zealand.
As a result of the 2013 report new health and safety legislation was introduced.
Since April the fourth 2016 the old Health & Safety in Employment Act 1992 has been replaced by the Health & Safety at Work Act 2015.
WorkSafe New Zealand was formed in 2013 following the pike river mining disaster. It is a government empowered dedicated task force that is focused upon spearheading health & safety compliance and enforcement.
WorkSafe New Zealand has set a target of cutting workplace fatalities and serious injuries by 25 percent by 2020.
We tend to think of health and safety as something that applies just to the workplace yet there are more preventable deaths and injuries that occur outside of this environment in our daily lives.
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