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Katherine Rich: BusinessNZ Chief Executive praises Brooke van Velden's new workplace reforms · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Bryan Bridge, Workplace Health and Safety getting a big shape
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  Speaker 2: shake up this afternoon, I should say, and we're going
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  Speaker 2: to go to business ends Chief Executive Captain rich On
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  Speaker 2: this for reaction, Catherine, Good evening, Good evening, You're glad
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  Speaker 2: to be out of politics.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yes, it's the world of business. Advocacy is a
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  Speaker 3: really good one, and so I'm really pleased by the
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  Speaker 3: announcements today, Ryan, because I think the government's making some
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  Speaker 3: progress pair back some of the silly rules and we've
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  Speaker 3: got ourselves into over a period of years. I think
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  Speaker 3: the announcements today many small businesses will breathe a sigh
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  Speaker 3: of relief because they're going to have to just concentrate
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  Speaker 3: on the critical issues that cause best serious injury and
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  Speaker 3: illness and not get into the endless paperwork and tick
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  Speaker 3: box exercises. It makes them fearful about running their businesses.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're taking small businesses out of the general requirements
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  Speaker 2: under the Health and Safety at Work Act. Can you
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  Speaker 2: just give us a couple of examples from businesses you
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  Speaker 2: are aware of. What are some of the things that
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  Speaker 2: they have been having to deal with.
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  Speaker 3: Well, for a lot of businesses, particularly when they get
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  Speaker 3: fearful about not doing the right thing, might overcompensate and
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  Speaker 3: then bring in rules because they think they just want
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  Speaker 3: to absolutely eradicate risk rather than manage or minimize it.
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  Speaker 3: And it's that kind of environment if you get fearful,
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  Speaker 3: which means more road cones, means things like being concerned
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  Speaker 3: about lolly scrambles at community events or farmers being nervous
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  Speaker 3: about having people on their properties. The announcements today, I
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  Speaker 3: think will go a long way to remind small businesses
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  Speaker 3: that their job is very successful in their businesses and
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  Speaker 3: not to have to worry about things that are not
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  Speaker 3: serious stuff like you've still got to have a safe environment.
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  Speaker 3: You've still got to do a whole bunch of things
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  Speaker 3: for the workers. Safety is still paramount. But what we're
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  Speaker 3: seeing here is a clarification of what the responsibilities are
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  Speaker 3: because over a period of time, individual smallnesstresses have been
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  Speaker 3: worried about doing something wrong and being the one in
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  Speaker 3: the dock.
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  Speaker 2: Catherine, thank you very much for your time. Appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: Katherine Rich who's the business ends in chief executive.
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