Evaluation of ACC Reforms: Case Study Research
Summary
Three reports summarising the findings of case study research into the impacts of reforms to the accident compensation system on organisations’ workplace health and safety policies and practices.
The Department of Labour commissioned WEB Research to undertake case study research during the years 1999 to 2002 to investigate the impact of accident compensation legislative changes on workplace health and safety and injury management. A case study methodology was chosen because it allowed an in-depth focus on the issues in a real life context. For example it enabled a closer look at how and why firms responded to the changes in ACC legislation, the insurance decisions they had made and the reasons for those decisions.
The research comprised the following three phases:
• phase one focused on the situation prior to and during the transition to the new private market environment for workplace insurance in July 1999.
• phase two focused on the impact of the 1999 reforms one year after the reforms, and the transition to the workplace accident compensation environment of 2000.
• phase three focused on post 2000 workplace accident compensation reforms.
Author: Centre for Research on Work, Education & Business
All publications in subject category: Health & safety in employment
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All publications in subject category: Injury prevention, rehabilitation, and compensation
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- Effective Occupational Health Interventions in Agriculture
- Health Outcomes in Former New Zealand Timber Workers Exposed To Pentachlorophenal (PCP)
- Measuring the total cost of injury in New Zealand: A review of alternative cost methodologies
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- Report of the Ministerial Advisory Panel on Work Related Gradual Process Disease or Infection
- Returning to work from injury: Longitudinal evidence on employment and earnings
- Risk Evaluation of Dioxin Exposure to Workers at Dow AgroSciences, New Plymouth
- Strategies to Return Injured Workers to Sustainable Earnings - An International Literature Review
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- The effects of occupational safety and health interventions
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