New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations

For many years the ACC have been dumbing down the New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations by funding a different document and instructing Initial Occupational Assessors and Vocational Independence Assessors to use the document they have funded. Recently this arrangement has been changed.

The Statistics Department of New Zealand analyses all occupations in New Zealand and described the education, experience and skill required to be an earner in each occupation in New Zealand and after each census produced the New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations. the ACC are not permitted to instruct the occupational assessors on how they must assess. The occupational assessors must be expert on what they do. This means the occupational assessors may not be permitted to be instructed by the ACC on what they must report except qualification, experience and skill required to be an earner in any of the titles they give.

The work task activities and skill requirement for those activities that make up any occupation must be clearly detailed before the medical assessor may determine safety and sustainability while having regard for the injuries. This has all been very craftily avoided over the years.

NEW CHANGES

The new document that all assessors must rely upon is now complete.

There are some changes in the layout of how an occupational assessor is required to look at occupations. Each occupation is now graded so we will be able to determine whether or not we have been properly assessed. This will have far-reaching effects as it will identify the errors of fact made by a very large number of occupational assessors.

The good news is we are now able to rely upon this new improved information. This new information will ultimately required the Corporation to reassess former decisions as it is radically different to the information that they have been relying on to the extent that it shows up extraordinary errors of former decision makers.

as an example if we were to look at a plasterer we would see that to be rehabilitated he would need to reach a skill level of "4".
In New Zealand:

NZ Register Level 4 qualification

The New Zealand standard classification of occupations has been replaced with
The Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO)

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To assist to determine whether or not you have been rehabilitated you will find this site very useful. This information forms the basis of the information we rely on and is now an integral part of the basis of employment or earnings capacity in New Zealand. Goodbye Skills New Zealand you have failed!!