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Mid Canterbury businesses are set to benefit from additional financial support from ACC to support safer working environments. The new initiative, announced by ACC minister Iain Lees-Galloway, will see $22 million worth of funding rolled out across the nation over the next five years in the form of subsidies and grants. The subsidies are for services that are known to improve workplace safety, and grants to provide funding for organisations to help solve workplace health and safety problems that affect multiple businesses in an industry or supply chain. One Ashburton business welcoming
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ing in to the office first,” she said. “It can be quite frustrating.” In 2017 ACC processed 231,651 claims for work related injuries, while five sectors currently represent 52 per cent of all severe workplace injuries (agriculture, construction, forestry, manufacturing, healthcare and social assistance). “The Government is determined to ensure that all New Zealanders can return home to their friends and whanau in the same health as when they began their day at work,” Lees-Galloway said.
the funding is Ag-serve. Director Cheryl Ann Smith says the increased funding will definitely be a positive for businesses. “All our policies are compliant and all our staff have attended courses but this would certainly help as it is not cheap,” she said. “We also have an outside compliance person that comes in to ensure everything is okay as well.” Smith said while their staff are fully equipped to work safely and meet every morning, some people coming on to a business site are more reckless with health and safety. “We do get people that come in and ignore the signs we have out and just wander around the place without com-
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