H&S Services

Safety Kept Simple offers Expert, Affordable Health & Safety Consultancy Services throughout New Zealand

You started your business or joined your workplace because you are an expert in your own industry. For many business owners health & safety is an area they feel inexperienced in. This leads to concerns that this may impact their staff & workplace safety.

Safety Kept Simple removes this burden from you by establishing a simple yet effective health and safety framework which adds value to the safety of your work.

Are you a business owner/manager/director who knows the importance of having an effective health and safety framework embedded into all the work you undertake, but don’t have the time or expertise to implement one?

Then get in touch with Safety Kept Simple Director Jess Griffin for a free, no judgement chat about your needs.

What is a Workplace Health and Safety Consultant?

A workplace health and safety consultant is a professional that is specially trained on the matter of health and safety in the workplace. With their experience and expertise, they can provide expert advice on how a business can improve its overall health and safety in its workplace.

The new laws for workplace health and safety, the Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA), means that organisations have a greater focus on managing health and safety, and a workplace health and safety consultant will help support your health and safety activities.

An organisation may need to review, change or develop its health and safety strategies and systems to make sure it is managing its workplace health and safety effectively. Most organisations do not have enough people with the right training to cover all the issues necessary for good management of workplace health and safety.
A consultant can offer expertise in specific areas so that problems can be solved, or provide on-going support where a full-time health and safety manager or advisor is not needed.

Key components to successful health and safety within an organisation

At Safety Kept Simple our ethos in ensuring people are not harmed at work is simple:

Keep it simple and practical. If it doesn’t add value to the safety of work do you need it?
Engage your workforce. Your staff are the experts in the work they do. Their engagement and participation will in turn create ownership of their safety at work and a higher performing safety culture.
Focus on risk. Mitigate that risk by taking a practical solution-based approach.
Continual improvement. Work is continually evolving; your safety framework must also continually evolve to ensure its optimal effectiveness.

Safety Kept Simple’s Key H&S Elements

Create a living and breathing health and safety policy. A policy your staff identify and connect with. One they are familiar with and understand. This then becomes the founding document on which your organisation can base its entire approach.
Create a tailored safety management system. A framework which incorporates staff engagement and participation into your risk management, practices and procedures.
Risk management. Identifying your risks and implementing effective and practical controls.
Influence, engage and coach all levels of the organisation, including senior management and governance.
Onsite safety interactions. One of the most effective ways to really understand the risks your people encounter and the most effective ways of controlling these risks. Drill down into what your people need or don’t need. Identify how work could become more efficient and safer. Hence moving away from “work as imagined” into a “work as done” space ensuring your framework is actually supporting those on the frontline.
Training. Create and deliver tailored induction and specific health and safety training.
Incident management. Manage all your incidents or one-off investigations including Duty Holder Reviews (WorkSafe).
Staff engagement. Develop opportunities for your staff to take full ownership of their safety of work. Work improvement teams, planning meetings, completion of work safety reviews.
Work with you to ensure sure your business has a practical solution-based approach to safety in an ongoing nature.
Also specialising in initial set up of a safety framework you can self-manage.

FAQ’s

I currently have a very limited health and safety management system in place. Where would you start?

We will start from where you are right now!
By identifying current gaps and priorities we can begin to build a tailored framework that is owned by everyone in your team. This will give you peace of mind that your health & safety responsibilities are fully compliant.

I currently have an extensive health and safety management system in place, however it is not working effectively and our staff are not engaged. Where would you start?

Our ethos is to remove the safety clutter.
What adds value? What does not? Increase staff involvement; what do they need or don’t need? Make safety simple, yet effective and part of every aspect of work.

Are you a one-off service or will we work together long term?

We do offer a full range of health and safety services which can be one-off projects. However, at Safety Kept Simple our clients will add far greater value to their safety of work when we work together in an ongoing nature. Get in touch for a free chat about your requirements.

My business has grown but still cannot justify a dedicated health and safety role. Can you help?

Yes!
Safety Kept Simple can work within your business as your dedicated health and safety professional. This could be one day a week or one day a month. Let’s work together to establish your needs based on your scope of work and business requirements.

Where are you based?

I am based in Wanaka, working extensively throughout Wanaka, Queenstown and Central Otago.

Do you take on clients throughout New Zealand?

Yes!
We are happy to work with you no matter where your business is based in New Zealand. We can travel to your location to make a full assessment and then work remotely with you from there.