Grant Nicholson: Health and Safety Lawyer on the new regulatory reforms

An opinion new health and safety regulatory reforms is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. 

The Government's change makes clear landowners won’t be responsible if people are injured on their property, while doing recreational activities. 

Fault will lie with the organisations running them. 

It used the prosecution of the company that grants access to White Island after it erupted as one reason for the change. 

Health and Safety Lawyer Grant Nicholson told Mike Hosking that's the only example of the law getting muddy. 

He says ultimately the court did its job —with the company later acquitted— and the law worked as intended. 

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