16582 (2025). Teanau Tuiono to the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety

16582 (2025). Teanau Tuiono to the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety: Further to her response to oral question 12 on 2 April 2025, where she said "I'm not weakening health and safety; I'm refocusing health and safety on critical risks. One of the clear parts of my consultation came back saying that small businesses are spending a lot of time on paper-based compliance. They're not sure if it's actually having any effect on reducing harm, but what we do know is we want people to focus on those critical risks that are causing death, serious injury, and illness in workplaces." what is her working definition of critical risk?

Hon Brooke van Velden: My working definition of critical risk is those risks that could lead to the incidents covered by sections 23 and 24 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.