People falling over at home cost the country $1.8 billion a year and the Government wants to do something about it.
ACC Minister Judith Collins says more than 100,000 working age people fall over and more than 10,000 of them are so seriously injured they can't continue in their jobs.
"Falls cost the country an estimated $1.8 billion in annual social and economic costs and they're happening to people at the most productive time of their lives - when they run households, support families and hold senior positions at work," she said.
Ms Collins is launching a programme called Idea Nation and she's asking people to use their "number eight wire thinking" to come up with ways to help prevent falls.
Prizes are going to be offered for the best ideas from schools, universities, businesses and the public, but changing the numbers won't be easy.
"No one in the world has really been able to come up with a solution for reducing falls in the home," Ms Collins said.
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