Rewarding safe workplaces

The Dom Post reports on how unions are against ACC rewarding employers with safe workplaces:

The Government is set to reintroduce lower ACC levies for firms with the best safety records, a move unions claim will see bosses cover up accidents.

Sigh – the paranoia is rampant. Do they actually have any proven examples of this happening from last time? Failing to register workplace accidents is basically a criminal offence. So unions are saying we should not reward safer workplaces because they think so many employers are criminals who will cover up accidents. Really – at times they are just dinosaurs.

ACC Minister Nick Smith said he wanted an upcoming review of the corporation to consider bringing back “experience rating” of the 1990s, which saw employers pay levies according to the number of accidents in their workplace.

It’s called a carrot. The left want only a stick – prosecutions after the fact if an accident happens. I would much prefer getting the incentives right before an accident by having some carrot.