The NZ Initiative has published a new report by Dr Bryce Wilkinson on the costs and benefits of the government regs for workplace falls from heights - A Matter of Balance. Costs - not definitive but could be as much as $15k for a new build. Benefits? Officially who knows as MBIE apparently did not calculate net benefits.
Anyway, well worth a read at nzinitiative.org.nz. A lot of information in the report, some of which is being disputed in online discussions. An extract -
".... Mike Fox,
founding director of Primesite
Homes, said in the June 2014 issue
of Building Today, the official
magazine of Registered Master
Builders Federation (RMBF):
Conservatively, the cost to the consumer
of the current approach is approximately
$15,000 per [new?] dwelling (excluding
the consumer’s additional holding costs)–
or about $300 million in total, each and
every year."
Anyway, well worth a read at nzinitiative.org.nz. A lot of information in the report, some of which is being disputed in online discussions. An extract -
".... Mike Fox,
founding director of Primesite
Homes, said in the June 2014 issue
of Building Today, the official
magazine of Registered Master
Builders Federation (RMBF):
Conservatively, the cost to the consumer
of the current approach is approximately
$15,000 per [new?] dwelling (excluding
the consumer’s additional holding costs)–
or about $300 million in total, each and
every year."
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