Health and Safety

Why choose us for your on farm Health and Safety

Time on Farm

Keith as a farm owner is aware of what might be practical on paper and what in real life is practical, as well as the real life things farmers face everyday and the realties of managing staff, contract milkers and sharemilkers.

Hasanz registered

Hasanz is the health and safety association of New Zealand, each member must meet strict experience and qualification requirements and stand up to independent verification whilst undertaking continuous professional development – so we’re on the 8ball with the latest and greatest proven methods for on farm safety management. Just like a Chartered accountant would for accountancy.

Safe Plus audit

An in depth assessment and improvement toolkit Jointly developed by WorkSafe, ACC MBIE for your business that helps you understand what gets in the way of safe work and how to have safety conversations to remove those barriers.

Not everyone can offer SafePlus auditing, Keith is one of only a handful in NZ accredited by WorkSafe to do this assessment.

The benefits of doing this include reducing the likelihood of workplace accidents and illnesses, increase your confidence that your business takes safety seriously and boosts the farms reputation by showing leadership in safe working practice when trying attract talent to work with you.

Other Packages and work we can do on farm to improve safety:

  • General Audit

  • Annual reviews to make sure you are keeping on top of your health and safety (it isn’t just a plan you put in the drawer)

  • Incident Investigation including a Learning Team Approach (bringing the team involved together to learn more and what needs to change)

  • Team Talks - are you struggling with getting your team or sharefarmers on board? We can work directly with them to improve the on-farm safety culture

  • ACC return to work plans

  • Wellbeing and Fatigue management plans

  • Procedure and SOPs to reduce the risk of tasks

  • Contractor management systems - contractors coming and going on farm are a huge risk to the owners and management, an area many farmers forget.

On Farm Health and Safety Packages

Farm health and safety policy

$640 for a completely customised policy

Health and safety policies are a specialist area that we want to make sure you can rely on, and that they work for both farm owner and sharefarmer to keep everyone safe on farm.

The package includes 4 hours of contact time and a further 4 hours to administer, test, format and deliver - this includes going through the final plan and assisting with the first phase of implementation and advice on what next.

Health and safety facilitation meetings

$180 per hour

A health and safety policy should not just go in the drawer after it is written. Implementation is the key to acheiving your goals in health and safety. If this isn’t an area you are confident in, or you just want to see how its done, we highly recommend this service.

According to the Institute of Directors and Worksafe Health and Safety Guide:

“Health and safety governance is as important as any other aspect of governance. It is a fundamental part of an organisation’s overall risk management function, which is a key responsibility of directors. Directors and other officers have a duty to exercise due diligence to ensure that the organisation complies with health and safety duties and obligations. Failure to manage health and safety risk effectively has both human and business costs. The price of failure can be the damaged lives of workers, their families and friends, as well as direct financial costs, damaged reputations and the risk of prosecution.”

How does this apply on farm and how can we help?

With the way many farmers and their families structure their farm businesses in limited liability companies with directors and trusts with trustees, its important that they also understand how health and safety applies to them as directors and trustees. Keith’s expertise in advising boards and directors in the corporate work is something he is also able to provide and apply to our smaller farming businesses.

Not a Farmer?

That’s OK - Whilst our core services are aimed towards farming related industries, Keith has a wealth of experience from the boardroom to the shop floor in manufacturing, oil, gas, construction and government/defence sectors. Get in touch and we can work together on a solution that fits your business.