Health and Safety Update 2023 - Online CPD

Package includes:

Online CPD Module  l  Electronic booklet  l  PowerPoint Presentation

Package Fee (incl GST)

• $149 - NZLS members and Associate members
• $179 - Non-members

Note: Access to the online files is via your "My CPD" page. If you would like to purchase multiple packages, please contact us here.

Online CPD Module

Health and Safety issues constitute major risks to many clients’ businesses and to their people. This module will outline WorkSafe’s enforcement approach, and its current areas of focus, including the construction sector, and consider what that means for the parties that  you are advising. It will also consider recent developments in the law including: recently proposed legislative changes, the key case law, and the practical implications for your clients of these decisions.

Learning objectives

By completing this module you will:

• Gain an up-to-date knowledge of key case law and pending legislative changes relating to health and safety.
• Understand the role of WorkSafe in COVID-19 workplace issues.

Electronic paper 

Authors: Greg Cain, Michael Hargreaves
Published: 29 March 2023
Pages: 49

Introduction

The pace of change in health and safety law continued unabated in 2022. There were a number of interesting decisions, but possibly the most significant, and certainly contentious, was the NEMA decision on the scope of the “other persons” duty in s 36(2) of the Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA). A number of other decisions relating to this duty demonstrate the difficulty of drawing a sensible line between situations which attract the duty and those that do not.

There were also significant liability decisions on recklessness, inspectors’ authority, reliance on earlier advice given by inspectors, and a host of sentencing decisions.

The Government is also proposing some significant legislative reform.

PowerPoint Presentation

These are the slides included in the presentation.