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Safety Documentation: Does Safety Documentation Save Lives – or Do People?

Written by Jacob Beullens | May 30, 2025 7:51:50 AM

Beyond ticking your risk management box, is safety documentation all that necessary for keeping people safe? 
At last year’s Safeguard National Health and Safety Conference in Auckland, Andrew Barrett facilitated this debate between leading NZ health and safety experts.
Leading health and safety lawyer, Grant Nicholson, and University of Auckland’s Health, Safety and Wellbeing Manager, Robert Powell, argued for the proposition. GM Health and Safety Innovation at Construction Health, Jon Harper Slade, and H&S Consultant (at the time with Rocket Lab), Moni Hogg, were in opposition.