Featured sector
Aviation
Rob spent forty years in aviation as a Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer in airframes, engines and avionics, and his career includes a period with the New Zealand aviation industry body. QHSE supports operators, maintenance organisations, flight training organisations and aviation service businesses with their health and safety at work duties, auditing, quality systems, training and risk.
What QHSE does here
- Health and safety at work duties under HSWA: worker engagement and participation, critical risk and controls, officer due diligence, and notifiable event decisions.
- Internal audits carried out independently of the organisation's own staff, and preparation for regulatory, certification and customer audits.
- Quality management system development and internal audit programme design.
- Internal auditor training for quality and compliance staff.
- Root cause analysis and corrective action training, so operators' own investigators and quality teams work from a shared method.
- Independent investigation of workplace incidents where an outside investigator is wanted.
- Risk framework design and facilitated risk assessment for operational and business risk.
- Ground operations health and safety: hangars, ramps, workshops and stores.
For smaller operators
Plenty of aviation businesses are small operations of a few people, where the owner is the director, the officer, and often the person flying, instructing, maintaining or running the job as well. The duty is the same as a large operator's, the time available is not. QHSE sizes the work to that: the critical risks written down properly, controls that suit the way the business actually runs, and the officer duty evidenced without a filing cabinet of paper nobody reads. The first conversation costs nothing, so a call to work out whether there is anything worth doing is free.
Food and beverage manufacturing
Processing lines, packaging machinery, forklifts, chemicals and shift work make this a sector with a high concentration of machinery and traffic risk.
- Machine safety assessment and guarding review for processing and packaging plant.
- SafePlus assessments and ACC AEP audits.
- Critical risk identification and controls assurance.
- Root cause analysis training for production and maintenance teams.
Electricity networks and power
Network and generation businesses manage high-consequence risks around live work, working at height, vehicles and contractors, with strong regulatory and assurance expectations.
- Critical risk framework design and controls assurance.
- ACC AEP audits and readiness reviews.
- Independent health and safety system audits and gap analyses.
- Internal auditor and root cause analysis training.
Roading and infrastructure
Civil and roading work brings together mobile plant, live traffic, excavations, services and multiple contractors on constantly changing sites.
- Critical risk identification and controls assurance for mobile plant, traffic and excavation.
- Contractor and subcontractor management review.
- SafePlus assessments and ACC AEP audits.
- Root cause analysis training for site and project teams.
Government and local government
Public sector organisations carry the same duties as any other PCBU, with the added weight of public scrutiny. Central government agencies and Crown entities, and regional and district councils, all run an unusually wide range of activity, much of it delivered through contractors, and councils have elected members who are officers in their own right.
- SafePlus assessments across the organisation's activities.
- Officer due diligence support and briefings for elected members, boards and executives.
- Risk framework design and critical risk reviews.
- Contractor management review and health and safety system audits.
General manufacturing and engineering
Workshops, fabrication and production environments combine machinery, lifting, hot work, hazardous substances and traffic, often in businesses with lean management teams.
What QHSE does here
- Machine safety assessment, guarding review and equipment compliance.
- Electrical safety and portable appliance testing.
- Quality management systems aligned to ISO 9001.
- SafePlus assessments, ACC AEP audits and practical advice.
