If you're searching for experienced health and safety consultants, you're probably asking one core question:
Can this consultancy actually reduce risk, improve performance and stand up to scrutiny when it matters?
Advanced Safety helps New Zealand businesses move beyond box-ticking compliance and build health and safety systems that work in practice as well as on paper. Our consultants support organisations across construction, manufacturing, infrastructure, retail, local government and high-risk industries to meet their obligations under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA) while strengthening culture, leadership and operational performance.
Working with a health and safety consultant should leave you with a system your people actually use and decisions you can defend. That's the standard Advanced Safety works to with businesses across New Zealand.
Why Choose Advanced Safety as Your Health and Safety Consultant?
Not all health and safety consultants are the same. Many focus on documentation alone and others deliver audits with no practical follow-through. Advanced Safety was built to close that gap.
Discover the Advanced Safety difference.
Reduce Risk and Strengthen Safety Performance
Our health and safety consultants focus on risk first, not paperwork. That means finding where risk actually sits in your operations and applying controls that line up with the hierarchy of controls in the General Risk and Workplace Management Regulations 2016, not outdated hazard-only models.
This approach leads to:
Fewer incidents and near misses
Better control of critical risks
Stronger confidence from clients, regulators and insurers
(For a deeper explanation of how risk controls should be applied correctly, see our detailed guide on the Hierarchy of Control.)
Experienced, HASANZ-Registered Health and Safety Consultants
All Advanced Safety consultants are HASANZ-registered professionals and that gives you assurance the advice is competent, ethical and aligned with recognised professional standards.
This matters because HSWA requires officers to exercise due diligence. Using qualified consultants helps demonstrate it when decisions are later scrutinised.
If you're unclear about your responsibilities, I recommend starting with our explainer: Who or What is a PCBU?
Tailored Health and Safety Systems That Work in Practice
There are no templated systems here. Our consultants design health and safety frameworks that reflect:
Your industry risks
Your workforce capability
Your operational reality
The result is documentation that supports real work, not a system sitting unused in a shared drive.
When your system exists on paper but isn't working day to day, see how Implementation Partner works.
Proven Results Across Construction, Manufacturing and High-Risk Industries
Advanced Safety consultants work extensively across:
Construction and civil infrastructure
Manufacturing and processing
Logistics and transport
Retail and commercial property
Councils, government agencies and NGOs
Our systems are routinely used to support:
Tender submissions
Regulatory engagement
Insurance and due diligence reviews
Health and Safety Consulting Services That Protect Your Business
Our health and safety consultants provide end-to-end support, from diagnostics through to implementation and ongoing improvement.
Health and Safety Management Systems (HSWA and ISO 45001 Aligned)
Advanced Safety designs and implements health and safety management systems that align with:
HSWA 2015
ISO 45001 (Occupational Health and Safety)
ISO 45003 (Psychosocial risk management)
Each system is scaled to suit small, medium and enterprise organisations.
Health and Safety Audits, Assessments and Gap Analysis
Our consultants conduct practical audits that assess both:
Documented systems
Actual work practices
These reviews show where the gaps sit between intent and reality and what to prioritise first.
Risk Management and Critical Risk Controls
Risk management under HSWA isn't optional and our consultants help businesses:
Identify critical risks
Apply controls in line with the Hierarchy of Control
Justify decisions where elimination isn't reasonably practicable
This protects both workers and officers when decisions are examined after incidents.
Contractor Management and Prequalification Support
Advanced Safety supports contractor management frameworks and prequalification systems including:
SiteWise
Tōtika
Impac and client-specific portals
This includes aligning your systems to what assessors actually look for, not just what the standards say.
Incident Investigation, Training, and Safety Leadership Development
Our consultants provide:
Incident investigations focused on learning, not blame
Targeted training for leaders, workers and health and safety representatives
Coaching to strengthen safety leadership and decision-making
How Our Health and Safety Consultants Support Your Business
Our consulting approach is structured, transparent and focused on outcomes.
Initial Consultation and Compliance Diagnostic
Every engagement starts with a clear picture of where you stand, covering:
Legal obligations as a PCBU
Current system maturity
Risk exposure and priority gaps
Many clients begin with the free Compliance Compass Self-Check to see where their system sits and what to fix first.
Customised Health and Safety Improvement Plan
The findings then shape a practical roadmap that:
Prioritises high-risk issues
Aligns actions to business objectives
Avoids unnecessary documentation
On-Site and Remote Implementation Support Across New Zealand
Our health and safety consultants operate nationwide, providing:
On-site support where needed
Remote advisory and review services
Flexible delivery aligned to your schedule
Ongoing Advice, Monitoring, and Performance Improvement
Health and safety isn't a one-off project and ongoing improvement comes through:
Regular reviews
Leadership coaching
System refinement as your business grows or changes
What Makes a Good Health and Safety Consultant
The qualifications matter, however they're only the starting point. HASANZ registration tells you someone has met their profession's standard. It doesn't tell you whether they'll be any good inside your business.
The consultants worth hiring tend to share a few traits:
They make the law simple enough to act on without dumbing it down
They find the root cause, not just the symptom
They know your industry well enough to tell a real control from a paper one
They tell you the truth about your risk, even when it's not what you want to hear
They keep learning as the law and the work keep changing
Ask any consultant you're considering for two references from businesses like yours, then ask those references one question: what changed on site after they left?
Health and Safety Consultants Trusted by Leading New Zealand Businesses
Advanced Safety works with organisations that understand the value of getting health and safety right.
Clients trust us because we:
Speak plainly, not in jargon
Focus on outcomes, not activity
Stand behind our advice
Many of our long-term clients engage us as their outsourced health and safety advisor, not just a one-off consultant.
What Our Clients Say About Our Health and Safety Consultants
– Melissa Dunstan, National Health & Safety Manager
Cook Brothers Construction (previous)
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"I can confidently recommend Advanced Safety to others looking for a professional external auditor"
Health and Safety Consultant FAQs
What Does a Health and Safety Consultant Do?
A health and safety consultant helps businesses meet their legal obligations, manage risk and improve safety performance. That covers system design, audits, training, investigations and ongoing advice.
When Should You Engage a Health and Safety Consultant?
Common triggers include:
Business growth or structural change
Tender or prequalification requirements
Regulatory engagement
Serious incidents or near misses
Uncertainty about PCBU duties
How Is Advanced Safety Different From Other Consultants?
Advanced Safety focuses on performance, not paperwork. Our consultants are HASANZ-registered, industry-experienced and accountable for outcomes, not just deliverables.
Do You Provide Health and Safety Consulting Nationwide?
Yes, Advanced Safety supports clients across New Zealand, including Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and regional locations.
Can a Health and Safety Consultant Guarantee Compliance?
No consultant can guarantee compliance and you should be wary of anyone who says they can. A good one helps you make defensible decisions, close the gaps that matter and reduce uncertainty. The duty stays with your business.
Start Working With a Health and Safety Consultant Who Delivers Results
If you're serious about reducing risk, strengthening leadership and building confidence in your systems, working with the right health and safety consultant matters.
Advanced Safety provides practical, defensible and performance-driven consulting that helps businesses move from compliance uncertainty to operational confidence.
What Health and Safety Consultants See That Leaders Can't
In my book Raise the Standard I write about the vantage point an adviser gets from working across a lot of different organisations. A leader knows their own business deeply, however someone who's sat in many boardrooms starts to see the same gaps turning up in businesses that have no connection to each other.
That's one of the most useful things a good health and safety consultant brings to the table. If the problem you're wrestling with feels unique to you, the odds are it's common and fixable and someone who's seen it before can usually tell you where it starts.
The free G.A.P.E. Self-Assessment helps you see where what your leaders believe, what your documents say, what your people do and what you can prove have started to drift apart.
Call us at 021 194 3437
Email us at info@advancedsafety.co.nz
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About the Author
Matt Jones is the founder of Advanced Safety and a HASANZ-registered health and safety consultant. He's a Professional Member of NZISM and holds a Graduate Diploma in Occupational Safety and Health.
He leads a team of HASANZ-registered associates who work inside client businesses as Implementation Partners, turning a health and safety system that exists on paper into one that works day to day. He created the Compliance Compass audit and wrote Raise the Standard: Why Good Organisations Go Blind and How Leaders Restore Visibility.
He also hosts the Health & Safety Unplugged podcast.
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Latest update: 5 November 2026
