Welcome to Stay Safe, New Zealand's leading expert for Tourism Health and Safety
Stay Safe: Health and Safety Expertise for the Tourism Sector
With over 35 years of experience in the tourism industry, Stay Safe specializes in health and safety solutions tailored to tourism businesses. Our mission is to deliver expert guidance in plain, simple language, helping you develop and implement effective Safety Management Systems (SMS) that put you in control and integrate seamlessly into your operations.
Why Do Tourism Businesses Need Specialist Health and Safety Advice?
Even low-risk tourism operations are not without risk. Navigating the complex web of regulations and legislation can be challenging, but industry-specific expertise ensures you meet all necessary requirements. At Stay Safe, we make sure you’re aware of everything you need to know, keeping your business compliant and your guests, workers and others safe.
Beyond Box-Ticking: Safety as the Foundation of Success
Health and safety is more than just meeting legal obligations—it’s about ensuring your guests, workers and others have a safe and enjoyable experience. Our Safety Management Systems are grounded in the principles of ISO45001 the International Standard for Risk Management, ensuring a systematic approach that fosters a strong safety culture within your team. By following best practices, regulatory compliance becomes second nature.
We Speak Tourism
Having operated adventure tourism products, tour companies, travel agencies, and worked extensively with resorts and accommodation providers, we understand the unique dynamics of the tourism sector. We know that legislation and safety jargon can be overwhelming. That’s why we believe if you can manage a tourism business, you can manage your health and safety. We’re here to support you every step of the way, ensuring your SMS is effective and straightforward to implement.
Our approach to health and safety in tourism.
The purpose of health and safety at work act is to keep workers and others safe. It's pretty simple. So that's where we start. We work with you to identify the hazards and risks that are present in your operation. We put in the appropriate controls to either eliminate risks are ensure they don't cause harm. Even with the best of planning, things can still go wrong. We ensure you have robust emergency management systems and your team are trained to manage any situation which may arise. Incidents provide important learning opportunities, we work through the principles of incident investigation and make sure we are getting to the root cause and can take the appropriate action to ensure they don't reoccur. As the saying goes, "health and safety, it's no accident". Effective system don't happen on their own. We work with to implement and overarching safety management system which captures all aspects of your operation. The foundation of this is a robust safety management plan.
