Learn about the work that ANZSOM is doing in this area. Members will be able to keep track of progress in the Members Area.
Recent Consultations that we are currently or have recently been involved in:
- Ministry of Health – Putting Patients First: Modernising health workforce regulation (Apr 2025)
- MBIE – Consultation on Engineered Stone and Materials Containing Crystalline Silica (Mar 2025 joint with AFOEM NZ)
- ACC – Working Together to Improve Patient Outcomes – Primary Care (Mar 2025)
- ACC – Working Together to Improve Patient Outcomes – Secondary Care (Apr 2025)
- Climate Change Commission – National Climate Change Risk Assessment 2026 – Call for Evidence (Nov 2024 submitted through AFOEM NZ)
- New Zealand Transport Agency – Development of New Medical Guidelines on Fitness to Drive (Sep 2024)
- ACC – Consultation on Improvements to Vocational Medical Services Contract (Nov – Mar 2024
Other areas that we actively advocate for include:
- Improvements in the New Zealand Occupational Medicine Specialist Training Programme through AFOEM NZ.
- Improvements in ACC services through regular meetings with ACC.
- Continuous review of the systems in place to protect workers at risk of occupational dust disease and inform a national approach to the prevention, early identification, control and management of occupational dust diseases in New Zealand, through WorkSafe’s Dust Diseases Task Force.
ANZSOM also advocates through its membership and partnerships with other organisations:
- Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Australasian Faculty of Occupational Medicine New Zealand Committee
- WorkSafe NZ – Dust Diseases Task Force
- Health and Safety Association of New Zealand
- Health Coalition Aotearoa
- International Occupational Medicine Societies Collaborative.
