As a business owner, irrespective of industry, you will have health and safety compliance demands that you must meet.
As specialists in health and safety we are here to provide you with the knowledge and resources to ensure you are health and safety compliant. This will ensure you are minimising risks to your staff, yourself and your business.
We offer tailored safety advisory, training and auditing services for businesses wanting to improve their health and safety and refine their systems.
Our goal is not to make health and safety compliance onerous, rather we take a very practical and pragmatic approach working with yourself and your teams to approach health and safety in ‘bite sized’ chunks. With the support of the Safe365 software we are able to set practical and manageable steps with you, track progress and map out what you need to focus on next.
Our goal is to help make NZ businesses safe by taking practical steps – one step at a time.
With over 30 years of experience in health and safety, our team offer a range of services to support you.
For established businesses we undertake Safety Assessments using proven tools to identify gaps.
This process ensures you are continually refining your approach to Health and Safety ensuring ongoing improvements are being made to keep your employees and business safe.
Once gaps are identified we provide practical steps to address these and support our recommendations with templated solutions for easy implementation.
We have a range of services on offer to provide you with the knowledge required to set up or improve your Health & Safety systems.
To set up your H&S system, we work alongside you to define and set your safety management goals.
Once these are set, we assist with setting up Safe365 to monitor and track your progress to improve health and safety in your workplace.
Our H&S systems are practical to implement, tailored to you and supported by tools that are simple to use.
An H&S system will ensure you:
We have a range of services on offer to provide you with Learning.
Managing Director
With over 15 years as a Senior Assessor, National Advisor and National Manager for Health, Safety, Environment & Quality, Paul brings extensive knowledge and advice to businesses across New Zealand.
Paul has worked for some of NZ’s largest businesses including Vector, Siemens, GEA NZ Ltd, UGL NZ Ltd, Genesis and Hick Bros Group. Within these organisations Paul has headed up the most senior roles being responsible for Health, Safety, Environment and Quality.
During his career, Paul has been responsible for developing and implementing health and safety strategies, eliminating and managing risks, and setting up operations for team compliance.
Paul was Group Manager of Health & Safety for Genesis when they won the Safe365 Safest Place to Work - Innovation Award in 2018 and was finalist for the Large Enterprise Safety Award.
Paul is providing NZ businesses with knowledge and support to assist with Health and Safety governance through to developing operational policies and procedures.
Learning & Development Manager
Lara started her career as Training Manager for a large casino in South Africa. From here her extensive career of over 20 years in training and assessment continued. During this time Lara worked across a range of sectors, including Hospitality, Food & Beverage processing, Manufacturing, Engineering, Maritime and Forestry.
Lara has worked within these industries creating induction programmes, developing ongoing training programmes, and supporting individuals to achieve their NZQA national qualifications.
As the Regional Customer Manager –Northern for Competenz (a multi-sector Industry Training Organisation), Lara worked with industry partners to support them to upskill their employees on-job, aligning their internal training to national qualifications and supporting them to improve efficiencies within their workforce.
Having established Risk Ready Ltd with Paul, Deane brings considerable knowledge of industrial equipment and day to day running of businesses, gained after his 20 years as the Managing Director of NZ Crane Hire – one of New Zealand’s leading crane hire specialists. He is a Director and Owner of Rendertech Ltd, Australasia's leading manufacturer of waste processing equipment for the meat and dairy industries and has been a Director of Kawerau Engineering Ltd since 2009. Deane also helps run a medium sized Logging Operation in the Bay of Plenty with his Daughter and son in Law.
Prior to founding New Zealand Crane Hire, Deane spent 14 years in the financial sector, heading up senior roles with two of the country’s biggest lending institutions, UDC and GE Capital, including five years as New Zealand Manager for GE Capital. Deane has kept an active interest in the financial sector through involvement with Armillary Private Capital and his boutique finance company Equipment Capital Limited which is a licensed broker for Speirs Finance.
It is this experience as well as his comprehensive expertise in day to day safety management, strategy formation, financial management, marketing and sales which Deane brings into Risk Ready.
Looking to improve your health & safety?
Contact us today for a no obligation discussion - fill in our Online Contact Form or contact us via email or phone.
paul@riskready.co.nz
