White Island volcano eruption: Whakaari Management found guilty of ‘astonishing’ safety failures - eviltoast

New Zealand judge Evangelos Thomas criticised failures of safety audits given ‘obvious risks’ that led to 2019 fatal eruption

  • Axisential@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    Hard to say in specific terms. Generally, we’ve already seen changes to the Adventure Activities Act (after much debate and industry consultation) which will put a lot more emphasis on informed consent and risk disclosures for clients. There’s also more emphasis on risks due to major natural events and having systems to identify and mitigate these.

    Honestly, the chances to the Act have been pretty minimal, and I don’t think this verdict changes that. What it does achieve is force the hand of shonky operators to come up to standard.