ACC Experience Ratings Released, Adapto are There to Help
New Zealand employers are currently being notified of their ACC experience ratings for 2011/12, which will determine the
financial impact of the new experience rating system on their ACC levies.
On April 1 2011 ACC introduced the experience rating, a system designed to recognise and reward businesses with less
than the industry average of workplace injuries, whilst those with a higher number of claims would face large levy
increases.
As a result, over the coming weeks companies nationwide will realise there is a distinct link between reducing
work-related injuries and gaining financial benefits from a better experience rating.
In response to this, Adapto Ltd can offer a comprehensive safety programme that is proven to create a safer, healthier
workplace with reduced ACC levies moving forward.
Adapto Ltd Managing Director, Dr Paul Reyneke, believes changing the safety culture of any organisation requires more
than a tick in a compliance box, and instead focus needs to be placed on three key areas:
1. The physical safety environment
2. The safety behaviour of employees
3. The injury rehabilitation process after an injury occurs.
In the past it has been all too easy for a business to assume they are meeting necessary workplace safety requirements
by simply ticking a compliance box/passing an audit.
At Adapto we know that positively influencing the safety behaviour of everyone in an organisation can result in
progressive safety habits being embedded into the everyday culture. This, quite simply, is how injury numbers, and the
negative ratings they incur, can be reduced,†concludes Reyneke.
Adapto Ltd offers New Zealand’s leading workplace safety programmes. Their unique approach presents more than a way to
pass ACC’s standard audit, it also provides a proven way to reduce the frequency of workplace injuries by changing
workplace habits. Apart from the obvious benefits of not harming staff, it also has the benefit of reducing the
experience rated ACC levies.
For more information about Adapto’s award-winning programmes head to www.adapto.co.nz.
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