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Future Directions for Injury Prevention in New Zealand

Every year in New Zealand many people have an injury that causes them pain and suffering. For example, each year about 1.7 million of us will have an injury that’s serious enough for an ACC claim to be made.

An injury often also affects our families and friends, and results in costs to our workplaces and communities.

We know most injuries are preventable. Therefore, it makes sense to support injury prevention activities and reduce the number of injuries occurring and their severity. It also makes sense to check from time to time that what we’re doing is working and that we’re focusing on what’s important.

Given the launch of the New Zealand Injury Prevent Strategy (the Strategy) was in 2003, it is timely to evaluate it to:

• assess New Zealand’s injury prevention performance to date
• identify areas of progress and barriers to progress
• identify new approaches to achieve cost effective injury reductions.

Further information about the evaluation

• About the Evaluation
• Consultation and timelines
• Useful resources
• Have your say

What is the New Zealand Injury Prevention Strategy?

The Strategy provides a framework and direction for improving the country’s injury prevention efforts through a multi-agency, coordinated approach that includes government working with organisations and groups in the wider community.

Its goals are to:

• achieve a positive safety culture and
• create safe environments.

ACC hosts the NZIPS Secretariat which is responsible for coordinating the development of the Strategy and implementation plans, and monitoring and reporting on progress.

The implementation plans for the Strategy have been developed to focus the whole of the injury prevention sector’s efforts. The six areas identified as national injury prevention priorities each have an individual strategy and action plans.

The priority areas and the agencies that lead and coordinate these are:

Read the full strategy at www.nzips.govt.nz/strategy