Somewhere to ask the question you didn't want to ask at work.
Around 4,000 health and safety people in New Zealand, talking to each other. No fee, no application and no letters after your name.
Where this came from
I started NZHSP because I wanted somewhere to ask a question and I couldn't find one.
Not a conference question. The real kind. You've made a call, it's four in the afternoon and you're not certain you got it right.
Most health and safety people in this country are on their own with that. One person carrying the lot, in a business where everybody else has a different job and nobody down the hall had the same problem last week.
So I started one. Around 4,000 people have turned up since. Turns out I wasn't the only one wanting it.
You put the question up, somebody who's been in amongst it answers you and you get on with your day. That's really all it is.
It isn't a professional body and I'm not pretending it is. There are organisations that do that job and they do it properly. Nothing here registers you or accredits you or qualifies you for anything.
It's simply the conversation that goes on alongside all of that.
The Safety Summit
Four keynotes, four workshops and a panel. One day, built for the people who actually have to make this work on Monday morning.
I produce it so I'm hardly neutral about it. It's still the thing on this page I'd point you at first. A room does something a feed never quite manages.
Worth a look if you've not been before.
Prices step up as the date gets closer. Earlier is cheaper.
The rest of the year
Four places and they're all free. Pick whichever one you'll actually open. The others will only sit there.
Safety Connect
The private one. Monthly calls, webinars and a library of templates you can lift and use as they are. Nothing deciding what you see except what people put up.
Join Safety Connect →The Facebook group
The busiest of the lot and the bluntest. Somebody puts a real problem up in the morning and there are six answers on it by lunchtime.
Join the group →The LinkedIn group
Roles going, what the regulator's up to and the longer conversations about where this work is heading. A bit more considered than Facebook.
Join the group →Who's behind it and who pays for it
I started NZHSP and I fund it myself through my company, Advanced Safety. Nobody else pays for it.
There's no fee to be here and there's no sponsor sitting behind me with a view on what gets said.
It's the first thing I'd want to know about a network somebody asked me to join. So there it is. If that ever changes I'll say so on this page.
Come and have a look. If you get something out of it then it's doing its job. If you don't then no harm done.
Yours,
Matt Jones
NZHSP is a network and a community. It isn't a professional body and it doesn't register, accredit or certify anyone.
Funded by Advanced Safety Limited. Producer of the Safety Summit.