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This 10 page paper examines the legislation and regulation of health and safety in the workplace in New Zealand. The workers compensation system administered by the ACC, put in place under health and safety legislation, with the aim of reducing risk in the work place as well as compensating sufferers of occupational injury or disease is discussed and the basis of the system, which has its' basis in the Woodhouse Report, is discussed with the principles used compared to the Meredith Principles. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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File: TS14_TEHSCOMPNZ.rtf
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of protecting workers from work-related accidents, conditions or illnesses. Health and safety as well as the workers compensation system that is in force within the country can be seen as
built on the early beginnings and based on many of the original and ongoing values. Today the situation is one where there are a number of different legislative and regulatory
requirements with which employers, either on a compulsory basis or on a voluntary basis, comply, and a workers compensation system based on the concept of no-fault (Clayton, 2003). To consider
the existing arrangements a brief consideration of the way in which they have developed, as well as the underlying values, would add value to any analysis. One of the first
range months was legislative; the Workers Compensation for Accidents Act 1900 was the first move under which there would be periodic payments made which were linked to earnings (Anonymous, 2006).
This is one of the first moves which became subject to a large number of amendments over the years, culminating with the Compensation for Personal Injury in New Zealand: Report
of the Royal Commission of Inquiry 1967, a report by Sir Owen Woodhouse, more commonly known as the Woodhouse Report (Anonymous, 2006). When the report was undertaken it was noted
that there were significant inadequacies in the way the workers compensation is dealt with, and that the common law action for damages was relatively constrained and may not always result
in an equitable outcome (Clayton, 2003). It is possible to argue that the Woodhouse report took a fairly similar approach to compensation as the report by Sir William Meredith, who
developed the "Meredith Principles". Sir William Meredith was a judge in Ontario, Canada, appointed in 1910, he developed the principles which were enacted in to the legislature it came into
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