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Workplace Health and Safety Strategy for New Zealand to 2015

Rautaki mō te Haumaru me te Hauora o te Wāhi Mahi mō Aotearoa ki te 2015

Snapshot of Progress 2005/06

Published November 2006

Department of Labour
Wellington
New Zealand

ISBN 0-478-28081-5

Workplace Group
Department of Labour
PO Box 3705
Wellington
New Zealand
email: whss@dol.govt.nz

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Minister’s Foreword

I am pleased to present the first progress report on the Workplace Health and Safety Strategy to 2015. When I launched the Strategy in June last year, the focus was very much on putting in place a number of actions that together would begin to realise the Strategy’s vision of “healthy people in safe and productive workplaces”.

This progress report demonstrates that we have done this - it provides a snapshot of the activities of many agencies who are contributing to the Strategy, and demonstrates the wide range of initiatives that are contributing to its progress. The report also provides detailed progress on each and every one of the actions and deliverables of the Action Plan 2005/06.

Ultimately, the Strategy is a catalyst for changing and lifting workplace health and safety practices beyond compliance, so we can have healthy people in safe and productive workplaces. An evaluation of the Strategy and action plan development has highlighted the need for us to keep focused on the vision and keep the Strategy “dynamic” - responding effectively to emerging opportunities and priorities, while making steady progress to achieve the vision.

Government, employers, employees, and key stakeholders all have a crucial role to play in working together to achieve this vision and make a difference. The evaluation clearly signals the need to continue to look at the way we work, and to ensure we facilitate the right dialogue to create changes in the workplace.

The priorities identified for 2007 and beyond reflect a new approach that aims to better engage with government, industry and the community over the coming years, and in doing so, accelerate progress towards the outcomes of government leadership, industry leadership and preventative workplace cultures.

The new Health and Safety Council will play a key role in providing governance to the Strategy and in providing direction over the medium to long term. I look forward to commencing work with the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions and Business New Zealand on this initiative.

I would like to thank the much wider range of other organisations and individuals for their continued commitment and contribution to the Strategy.

Hon Ruth Dyson
Minister of Labour

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