Help shape your ACC

Is our thinking on the right track?

Businesses need to be held accountable and get benefits for good practice but without good mentors and support it becomes a low priority job that small businesses have no time or money for.

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Is our thinking on the right track?

Anything that provides more information and more clarity around processes and ability to find and learn from information is great move. The ability to look at a business and "ringfence" separate area of possible risk in a manufacturing company that employs admin staff in a separate area makes a lot of sense. Monitoring and benchmarking will also help us understand where we are at in our H&S journey.

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Is our thinking on the right track?

The change of focus from compliance (paper towers) to H&S results (safer workplaces) is to be commended. Continuing development of relationships between ACC/WorkSafe and the workplace representatives, will clearly do more to encourage safer working practices and environments than regulatory box ticking.

In most businesses it is the H&S Managers and representatives whom are the front line dispensers of the policy developed by WorkSafe and ACC and therefore these people must be fully involved in the education process. Currently H&S Representatives are unit standard 29315 trained but there is no clear direction or training recommended beyond this, which would assist these people to better facilitate the roll out of initiatives from Worksafe and ACC. Pathway development for these frontline supporters of H&S should be established with urgency.

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Is our thinking on the right track?

What about business that are sole contractors? where do they fit into this? The product seems to be geared towards businesses that employee people. There should be something for sole contractors as well. It is very difficult for small businesses that do not employ others to meet your criteria because it seems to all be based around looking after employees.

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Is our thinking on the right track?

I think that it is important that businesses that are committed to the health and safety of their workers are rewarded with some sort of discount on their levy.

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How many insights reflect your experience?

Will there be consideration for the existing External prequalification process that our company already submits evidence to, as this is a lengthy but required process. I ask this question in light of Administration utilisation for most companies.

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How many insights reflect your experience?

All key insights I find to be accurate. There has always been a real focus on the paper-based systems of a business, rather than the culture and behaviours of those within the business. To me this has been a misrepresentation of the performance of a business, with many looking to ensure their documentation is compliant (only compliant, nothing beyond), without any real identified (or perceived) incentive to ensure their actions, behaviours and culture really embody their policies and procedures.

ACC programmes/ incentives need to be easy to understand, for all levels of people - Employers and upper management, employees and other stakeholders otherwise there will be no buy-in, and the reward or incentive should ideally be seen at all levels too.

All businesses are at varying levels of understanding health and safety, how it applies to them, and what is reasonably practicable for them to be doing. This needs to be understood, and taken into account when looking at the maturity of a business’s health and safety - with readily accessible, easily understood resources available to assist them in improving.

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