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Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Miscellaneous provisions - Administration - Health and Safety at Work Strategy and workplace injury prevention

196: Workplace injury prevention

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“WorkSafe and ACC must plan and work together to prevent workplace injuries”

WorkSafe and ACC need to have a plan to stop people from getting hurt at work. This plan is called a workplace injury prevention action plan. They must always have this plan ready.

WorkSafe and ACC also need to write down agreements about ways to prevent injuries. These agreements can be about things they do together or things that WorkSafe does with ACC’s money.

You can find more information about the workplace injury prevention action plan in Section 264A of the Accident Compensation Act 2001. The agreements between WorkSafe and ACC are explained in Section 264B of the same act.

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Part 5 Miscellaneous provisions
Administration: Health and Safety at Work Strategy and workplace injury prevention

196Workplace injury prevention

  1. Section 264A of the Accident Compensation Act 2001 requires WorkSafe and ACC to, at all times, have a workplace injury prevention action plan that meets the requirements of that section.

  2. Section 264B of the Accident Compensation Act 2001 requires WorkSafe and ACC to enter into written agreements about injury prevention measures that are—

  3. jointly undertaken by ACC and WorkSafe; or
    1. undertaken by WorkSafe and partly or wholly funded by ACC.