New Safety Rules for Adventures in New Zealand

The government in New Zealand has introduced new regulations to improve the safety of adventure sports and activities in the country.

The new regulations will introduce new safety standards for adventure activities and will require all adventure operators to be registered and undergo a safety audit every 3 years.

New Zealand minister Simon Bridges stated:

“The new safety audit standard is part of a range of initiatives introduced over the last three years to strengthen the safety of the industry.”

“It sets out the requirements operators must comply with to reduce risks in providing adventure activities. There will always be a level of risk with these types of activities, but commercial operators must take all practicable steps to operate safely.”

In the past 8 years over 50 people have died taking part in activities such as skydiving or quad biking in New Zealand, so the new rules are welcomed by the adventure tourism industry.

Any strengthening of safety rules is great news for UK travellers heading to New Zealand for a spot of adventure, but adventure sports and activities will always carry a risk of injury - that's part of the reason people choose to take part.

For this reason it is very important to buy travel insurance when you go on holiday and check to see if the activities and adventures that you intend to take part in will be covered.

Never take part in an adventure sport or activity without checking that your travel insurance will provide cover. If you were to have an accident and were found to be uninsured you could face medical bills of thousands of pounds.

Insurewithease.com can provides cover for a number of sports and activities, including kite surfing and scuba diving to 18m as standard, with the option to add cover for many more, including bungee jumping, rock climbing and tandem skydive.

More information about travel insurance for sports and activities.

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