Gordon Anderson continues his look at  health and safety  . . . 

The price you pay writes Gordon Anderson . . .  A boy stood on a burning deck his pocket full of crackers . . . I'm sure you can finish this verse but it leads me into a story of a young lad who was given a job in an engineering workshop.

Gordon Anderson ponders - are the insurance company underwriters "The Silent Regulators" of H&S? The new Health and safety looks like it will be passed into law at the end of this week regardless of the attempts by a number of lobby groups trying to have it watered down.

The reported breach this week of a health and safety injury in a public amenity certainly highlights the need to not brush an incident or an accident aside.

To be forewarned is to be forearmed -  I don’t wish to sound as if this is an overreaction, but from information I received just a few days ago in a Google health and safety (H&S) alert via stuff.co.nz, the following is a wakeup call for all NZ businesses.

The prime intention of the new health and safety legislation is designed to lift the standard of health and safety in NZ as well as reducing the number of fatalities and serious harm accidents in the NZ workplace.

Is it not an indictment on NZ and the NZ business culture when the government has to pass a law that requires employers to include, involve and to communicate to their employees about issues dealing with health and safety.

But will it land in the right hands?

Gordon Anderson principal of health & safety company Hasmate knows health & safety.

Episode 2 with Gordon Anderson talking about the pending changes to the health & safety regulations being introduced  in April 2016.