Benefits of Harmonised Law
In terms of the benefits of this process really it is about greater clarity and simplicity for all parties because some states of Australia started on the same page from 1 January 2012. In terms of national businesses, they are the ones that are going to have the most benefit from this process. There will be greater certainty and understanding of health and safety laws for them because they can comply with one set of consistent laws regardless of what state they are operating in. there will also be lower compliance costs because national businesses rather than having to develop systems to cover eight different jurisdictions legislation they can spend that time to develop company wide prevention programs based on one set of consistent laws. This also flows through economies of scale In terms of their training and deployment of health and safety expertise throughout their organization.
For government there will be some reduced expenditure in terms of policy function and in terms of developing health and safety laws into the future. Moving into the future the intergovernmental agreement states any future changes to health and safety laws will have to be taken up through that national structure and agreed at that highest level before they are implemented in all the jurisdictions.
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