Part 7Accident Compensation Corporation
The Corporation
264AWorkplace injury prevention action plan
The Corporation and WorkSafe must at all times have a workplace injury prevention action plan.
The Corporation and WorkSafe—
- may amend the workplace injury prevention action plan at any time; and
- must review the workplace injury prevention action plan at least once every 3 years.
The workplace injury prevention action plan must—
- outline all workplace injury prevention programmes that will be undertaken by WorkSafe and the Corporation (jointly or separately) in the period to which the plan relates; and
- state how those programmes are to be funded; and
- if funding from one agency is to be used to fund programmes undertaken by the other agency, state the amount of that funding; and
- in relation to programmes, or aspects of programmes, to be undertaken by WorkSafe, be consistent with the Health and Safety at Work Strategy published under section 195 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015; and
- in relation to programmes, or aspects of programmes, to be undertaken by the Corporation, be consistent with the Corporation's priorities for injury prevention measures relating to the Work Account.
The Corporation and WorkSafe must, to the extent practicable, ensure that—
- the workplace injury prevention action plan outlines a coherent scheme of workplace injury prevention programmes that do not involve the duplication of activities carried out by the Corporation and WorkSafe; and
- workplace injury prevention programmes are undertaken by the agency that is best suited to undertake them; and
- programmes outlined in the workplace injury prevention action plan complement the agencies' other activities, such as enforcement and education activities.
Notes
- Section 264A: inserted, on , by section 13 of the Accident Compensation Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 71).