Good Practice Guides

This guide is intended to set out the reporting needs for individuals with a governance role and those with a senior or executive management role. Managers and technical experts who support officers and senior or executive management to meet their duties, should have a clear understanding of how the organisations’ health and safety management systems meet these principles and considerations. 

The purpose of this guide is to provide practical support to Public Service chief executives, and other senior leaders who are deemed to be officers under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (the HSWA), with their governance accountabilities and ‘due diligence’ responsibilities.

Winner of the leadership category at the 2019 Safeguard New Zealand Workplace Health and Safety Awards for their officer development and assurance programme, the Department of Corrections is leading by example and has invested significant time and effort building capability in this area.
In this case study, Chief Executive Jeremy Lightfoot talks about the Corrections journey.

Kāinga Ora has developed an Officer’s Due Diligence Handbook as an induction style document for any of their officers who are new coming into this role. It is intended to support their attendance at the IoD / GHSL Officer Development programme.

This easy to follow handbook is a great example of support that can be provided to officers who need to understand their role, duties and activities to be taken under s44 of the HSWA 2015. This helpful resource also provides some example questions and conversation prompts for officers to have with their workers and aligns with the Business Leaders Health and Safety Forum document.

The purpose of these guides are to provide practical support and controls when dealing with emergency responses to - severe weather events dealing with soil, debris, harmful road interactions and safety discussion cards.

The purpose of this guide is to provide information on using helicopters companies engaged in work for your agency and the health and safety pre-qualifications and required