New health and safety rules relaxed for small businesses

New health and safety rules relaxed for small businesses
By Pattrick Smellie July 24 (BusinessDesk) - Health and safety law reform sparked by the Pike River coalmine disaster has been reported back from the industrial relations select committee with weakened requirements on small businesses to appoint health and safety representatives and committees. The Labour Party announced it was withdrawing support for the bill, whose re-emergence from the parliamentary select committee review process was delayed for months while National Party MPs fielded negative feedback from small business owners and f...