Health and Safety Law Made Easy 2017

A comprehensive guide to NZ’s health and safety scheme in an accessible format, enabling businesses to understand their rights and obligations and manage their legal risk.

by Sherridan Cook (Author) , Isaac Rosario (Author)

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ISBN/ISSN: 9781988506128
Release Date: January 01, 2017
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ISBN/ISSN: 9781988506135
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Health and safety is now the responsibility of everyone at the workplace under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. The personal and financial consequences of getting it wrong are severe. Ignorance of the law is no excuse and businesses must inform themselves. There is no room for a casual approach to health and safety – the stakes are too high.

Adjusting to the changes in health and safety law is a challenge. Health and Safety Law Made Easy keeps it simple for you. It provides a practical guide to New Zealand’s health and safety scheme in an accessible format, enabling you to understand your rights and duties and manage your legal risks. Included are examples, practical checklists and insightful tips to ensure you’re making the best decisions. Most of the health and safety concerns you have thought of are covered, as well as the ones you haven’t, including the classes of duty-holders, their associated duties, worker engagement, misleading conduct and much more.

Health and Safety Law Made Easy provides the practical essentials of the law so that you’ll have more time to focus on the important part – implementing a strong health and safety culture at your workplace.

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Featured Authors

Sherridan Cook
Isaac Rosario

Sherridan Cook

Sherridan Cook is a partner at Buddle Findlay and has specialised in health and safety and employment law for over 20 years. He advises a wide range of public and private sector clients on their health and safety compliance. He defends prosecutions and other enforcement action by WorkSafe and he also provides training and easy-to-use guidelines on health and safety risks, obligations and best practice.

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Isaac Rosario

Isaac Rosario (BSc/LLB) is a solicitor at Grimshaw & Co which specialises in leaky buildings, construction law and insurance law. Isaac’s interest in health and safety issues was sparked while studying employment and healthcare law topics.

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Table of contents

Regulatory framework

 
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

 Health and safety regulations

 The regulator

 Codes of practice

 
 
Classes of duty holders

 Person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU)

 Officers

 Workers

 Volunteers

 
 
Duties and obligations

 
Essential definitions and principles

 PCBUs’ duties

 Officers’ duties

 Workers’ duties

 Other persons 

 
 
Worker participation, engagement and representation

 Participation

 Engagement

 Health and safety representatives (HSRs)

 Health and safety committee (HSC)

 Ceasing unsafe work

 Issue resolution

 
 
Adverse, coercive and misleading conduct

 Adverse conduct

 Coercive conduct

 Misleading conduct

 Civil proceedings

 
 
Enforcement

 Functions of inspectors
 
 Powers of inspectors

 Immunity of inspectors

 Enforcement measures

 Civil proceedings for non-compliance with notices

 Notice types

 Enforceable undertakings

 Reviews and appeals

 
 
Authorisations
 

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