Comments on: Red Tape Commissioner starts work on reform including OHS

By: andy

andy — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 22:13:51 +0000

Red tape only serves to tie businesses and workers hands behind their backs so the public sector seems productive. Ohs has become a tyranny. \”just fill in these 5 bits of useless paper and all risks are gone\” a bit of paper has never made a job any safer, it wastes time which needs to be made up, usually by corner cutting.

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By: Kevin Jones

Kevin Jones — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:41:10 +0000

In reply to Paul Breslin.

Paul, certainly the Red Tape Commissioner\’s brief is whole-of-government but from the OHS perspective I share your thoughts.

The red tape website does include reports about red tape and administrative costs but many of these reports are over five years old and Victoria now has a very different economic status and the Liberal Party in power. (The business licence review is from 2010) Many of the reports were commissioned by the previous Labor government and have specific terms that do not necessarily support the current red tape strategy. For instance one report, on administrative burden, is based on comparisons with European and UK performance metrics with no discussion on the applicability of these measures for Victoria.

Also many of the cost estimates of administrative burden in the report are tiny compared to the cost estimates of workplace incidents, injuries and illnesses. A quick comparison of business costs of red tape and the business costs of unsafe workplaces clearly shows that by this government focussing on red tape, it is doing business and workers a disservice.

By: Tony Harrison

Tony Harrison — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:38:15 +0000

Not worth commenting on. Pure political nonsense.

By: Paul Breslin

Paul Breslin — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:18:18 +0000

Kevin
It\’s amazing that this State Government want the regulators to reduce the red tape across industries considering the fact that it had a real opportunity to do this by implementing the new national OHS legislation and reneged.

Regards
Paul

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