No published New Zealand figure for the cost of unregistered, uninspected or wrong-category plant

What it is. None - no source read gives a fine, stop-work cost or incident cost attributed to plant registration, inspection or category failure in New Zealand.

Sample. WorkSafe court summary register searched on "crane", "certificate of inspection", "pressure equipment", "crane inspection", "plant registration", "prestart", "registration", "forklift licence" (building and construction, and all industries); WorkSafe cranes and construction pages; the quarterly report; a law-firm count of fines. The register's free-text search is not selective ("plant registration" returned all 608 entries), so the entries read were those whose titles and facts were plant-related; none was charged for an unregistered or uncertified machine, except KNCC and Metallic Sweeping, where a certificate of inspection was one particular among several. Frequencies exist that the schema cannot hold: construction is about 15% of work-related fatalities and serious injuries, with 9 to 10 deaths a year, and vehicles and mobile machinery are a WorkSafe focus area.

What it is not. Recorded as none on purpose. The nearest evidence is KNCC (2023), a construction company charged under section 36 with four particulars, one of which was using a truck loader crane and slings without a current certificate of inspection. The fine ($380,000, cut to $240,000 for financial capacity) covers the whole charge, so no part of it can be assigned to the plant certificate. The 1999 pressure equipment and cranes regulations, which require those certificates, lost their offence and penalty provisions in 2016, so plant breaches are pleaded as general duty failures. This is a search of public registers and pages, not of court files.

Where it came from

• WorkSafe New Zealand (2023), KNCC Limited (court summary, 2023)
  summary page kncc-limited-2: The offence, The decision · source record

Considered and set aside

• WorkSafe New Zealand: States that holding a crane unit standard or certificate is not mandatory for an operator, which is a people question; it holds no cost and says nothing on plant registration or inspection.
• New Zealand Parliament (legislation.govt.nz): The regulations that require certificates of inspection for cranes and pressure equipment. Their offences and penalties (Part 6, regulation 39) were revoked on 4 April 2016, so a missing certificate is no longer a stand-alone offence with a penalty of its own, and the text holds no dollar figure.
• WorkSafe New Zealand: The one prosecution found where a crane certificate of inspection is a named particular outside the KNCC case ($15,000 over three years, 2022), but the industry is waste services and the fine is for the whole section 36 charge, including a detached hook.
• WorkSafe New Zealand: Crane lift and collapsed temporary works ($400,000 fine, reparation and costs) charged under the general duty, not plant certification.
• WorkSafe New Zealand: Principal contractor in the same lift, $10,000 fine for a duty on engaging another party, with no plant registration element.
• WorkSafe New Zealand: The nearest plant-hire case: a skid steer delivered with inoperative safety devices, reparation $66,515.20 and no fine; one 2016 case under the 1992 Act about condition, not registration or category.
• WorkSafe New Zealand: A vehicle inspection company fined $225,000 over a pedestrian death on its own site; transport industry and a traffic-management failure, not an inspection certificate.
• Hesketh Henry: An average of $145,033.60 per section 36 offence across all sectors and causes, with no plant split.
• WorkSafe New Zealand: Counts 1,039 improvement and 254 prohibition notices in one quarter with no dollar value and no plant category.
• WorkSafe New Zealand: Gives construction's share of harm and deaths and names vehicles and mobile machinery as a focus, but no cost figure and no registration or inspection data.
• Marsh New Zealand for NZ Transport Agency: Shows NZTA's insurance covers plant not required to be registered for road use and hired plant, with a $500,000 deductible; a policy term, not the cost of an unregistered or uninspected machine.

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