Reducing the Incidence and Severity of Injuries in the Construction Sector

2026-11-03

ACC’s Injury Prevention Strategy (2024-2033) focuses on reducing the incidence, severity, and long-term cost of injuries in New Zealand by targeting investment toward areas where the greatest measurable impact can be achieved.Through this procurement, ACC seeks innovative, scalable, and evidence-based approaches that can reduce injury incidence and severity within the construction industry, improve worker health and safety outcomes, and contribute to the long-term sustainability of the ACC Scheme. Suppliers will be expected to demonstrate how their proposed interventions will achieve measurable outcomes, effectively reach priority populations, and generate lasting behavioural and system-level change in on one or all of the following objectives:• Eye injuries (specifically increasing the use of Personal Protective Equipment [PPE]);• Work-related musculoskeletal injuries (specifically reducing worker exposure to hazardous working environments and improving the way work is planned, designed, resourced, supervised, and carried out); and• Slips, trips and falls (specifically reducing worker exposure to hazardous working environments and improving the way work is planned, designed, resourced, supervised, and carried out).This approach aligns directly with Injury Prevention’s new commissioning approach (evidence led, outcomes centred and balancing autonomy with accountability). Injury Prevention has set clear objectives and outcomes (identified through prescribed Intervention Logic Models and associated data sets), while allowing providers the flexibility to propose the initiatives and approaches they believe will best achieve them. This approach will invite suppliers to solve the challenge rather than respond to a predetermined approach. ACC's expectation is that initiatives will combine evidence-based approaches, effective engagement with construction businesses and workers, robust monitoring and evaluation, and a clear pathway to measurable injury prevention outcomes.

New Zealand

2026-10-30