NZISM Health and Safety Practitioner Accreditation System
08/09/2016 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Speaker: , Managing Director, First 4 Safety


Description

Following the Government’s plans expressed in the Working Safer blueprint to work with industry bodies to develop agreed professional standards for health and safety professionals, WorksafeNZ contracted NZISM at the end of 2014 to create an accreditation system for generalist health and safety practitioners. This accreditation system was to act as a base for generalist health and safety practitioners to list on the HASANZ Register; a register that New Zealand businesses would be able to go to and be assured of quality health and safety advice.

This presentation discusses the considerations that needed to be taken into account in creating the system, the differing stakeholder interests from the Government, current practitioners with no academic qualifications, international reference, through to the needs of the New Zealand Large and SME business owner. As a matter of course the varying health and safety ‘specialist’ fields needed to be defined to isolate what a true generalist health and safety practitioner was, what knowledge and experience was to provide their base, and what was expected from them.

Attendees will be taken through a short brief of the new system and see the process in use from start to finish. This presentation will be of interest to all general health and safety practitioners, to those working in the health and safety field in other roles, and to those in New Zealand business seeking to understand the accreditation of those working in the health and safety field.