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The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for hazardous substances and chemicals — managing exposure, fire/explosion, and reactive/toxic harm from substances, fumes, dusts and asbestos. Use for storing, handling, using or disposing of hazardous chemicals,…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for health & safety in mining, quarrying and the extractives industry — surface and underground — a high-consequence sector that sits under its own dedicated safety regime, separate from baseline HSWA/WHS. Use for…
Specialist in New Zealand HSWA 2015 duties and WorkSafe NZ requirements. Use for who holds which duty, the primary duty of care, reasonably practicable (SFAIRP), management of risks, worker/other-person duties, and especially OVERLAPPING DUTIES — how PCBUs…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for health & safety on farms and in agriculture — the sector's fatal risks, with farm vehicles and quad bikes as the flagship. Use for any farming, station, orchard, dairy or rural workplace question. Triggers on…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for the construction-project safety regime and construction-specific activities — the principal-contractor / SWMS / high-risk-construction-work system, site induction and coordination, temporary works, demolition,…
Use this skill when building or reviewing a bow tie risk assessment, defining a critical risk, assessing control (barrier) assurance, or scoring residual risk for NZ/AU workplace hazards. Triggers on "bow tie", "bowtie", "critical risk", "control assurance",…
Orchestrator for NZ/AU workplace health & safety work. Use this skill FIRST whenever a request touches occupational H&S, WHS, or HSWA — to identify the jurisdiction (New Zealand vs Australia, and which Australian state/territory) and the task type, then route…
Expert in workplace health & safety GOVERNANCE and OFFICER DUE DILIGENCE for boards, directors, CEOs and other officers. Use when an officer or board needs to discharge or demonstrate due diligence, improve H&S governance, run a governance self-assessment,…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for machinery and plant safety — guarding, isolation and lockout/tagout (LOTO) to prevent contact with rotating/moving parts and unexpected start-up or stored-energy release. Use for fixed and major plant — rotating…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for the pressure equipment itself — fired and unfired — boilers, pressure vessels, pressure piping, air receivers, autoclaves, steam and compressed-air systems, and gas cylinders as equipment. Use for the…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for health & safety in the geothermal energy sector — exploration, well drilling, the steamfield, power generation and direct use — where the defining hazards are hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for the drilling rig and the rotary-drilling operation itself — common across oil & gas, geothermal, water-bore and mineral-exploration drilling. Use for the rig, the drill floor and the operation, whatever the…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for the electricity supply industry (ESI) sector — the generation, transmission and distribution workforce whose core business IS the electrical network. Use for line work, live-line and de-energised network work,…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for health & safety in the oil & gas / petroleum sector — upstream exploration, drilling and production, offshore installations, and gas processing — a major-accident-hazard sector run under a dedicated safety-case…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for the scaffold structure itself — choosing the scaffold type, its duty (load) rating, foundations and sole boards, standards/ledgers/transoms, ties and bracing for stability, complete platforms with edge…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for working at height / preventing falls — the good-practice controls, the qualifications/competency required, and the governing NZ/AU guidance. Use for any work where a person could fall and be injured, or an…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for the elevating work platform itself — selecting the right EWP/MEWP type, reading the data plate (rated platform capacity and max persons), setting up on firm level ground within slope and wind limits, keeping it…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for health & safety in hospitality — restaurants, cafés, bars/pubs/clubs, hotels/motels/accommodation, catering and fast food — a young/casual/high-turnover workforce in a high-frequency-injury setting under the…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for health & safety in the rail sector — heavy rail, metro, light rail/trams and rail freight — worked in the rail corridor under a dedicated rail-safety regime that is co-regulated alongside WHS/HSWA. Use for any…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for WORKER health & safety in food, meat, dairy and seafood processing — abattoirs/meatworks, boning rooms, rendering, dairy factories, seafood and general food manufacturing. A manufacturing sub-sector with its own…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for health & safety in waste management and recycling — kerbside collection, transfer stations, materials recovery facilities (MRFs), landfills, composting and hazardous/clinical waste — one of the highest…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for WORKER health & safety in healthcare, aged residential care, and disability & community support — the largest-employing sector, where chronic, psychosocial, biological and violence hazards converge under the…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for health & safety in maritime vessel operations and port/harbour operations — non-fishing commercial seafaring (cargo ships, ferries, passenger vessels, tugs, workboats, charter/tourism) and the marine side of…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for health & safety in commercial fishing and aquaculture — one of the highest-fatality sectors, worked on vessels and the water under a co-regulated maritime + work-health-and-safety regime. Use for any commercial…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for vehicles, mobile plant and workplace traffic — preventing collisions, vehicle-pedestrian strikes, and loss of control. Use for forklifts, trucks, diggers/excavators, loaders, telehandlers and cars moving around…
Specialist in managing psychosocial risk — hazards arising from the design and management of work that may cause psychological (and physical) harm. Use to identify, assess and control psychosocial hazards such as high job demands, low job control, poor…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for road transport, trucking and logistics safety — the heavy-vehicle supply-chain regime (Chain of Responsibility in AU; HSWA upstream duties plus Land Transport work-time in NZ), driver fatigue and work-time,…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for electrical safety and stored/released energy — electric shock, arc flash/blast, burns, and uncontrolled release of stored energy. Use for work on or near energised electrical equipment, working near overhead or…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for stevedoring and port cargo-handling safety — loading and unloading ships, container terminals, and the wharf, a sector with an injury rate many times the all-industry average. Use for any stevedoring, wharf,…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for health & safety in manufacturing and processing — the factory production system and its catastrophic and chronic risks, including process safety and major hazard facilities, combustible dust and fire/explosion,…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for health & safety in forestry and harvesting — a high-fatality sector with its own deadly core tasks — manual and mechanised tree felling, breaking out / cable (hauler) logging, the cutover and the landing/skid.…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for the crane itself — selecting the right crane, reading and de-rating its load chart / rated capacity, building up the gross load, setting up on competent ground with outriggers, keeping it stable, planning the…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for the forklift itself — its rated capacity and load-centre/lift-height de-rating, the stability triangle and tip-over, attachments, operating on grades and at loading docks, pre-start checks, ROPS/seatbelt, and…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for health & safety in horticulture — orchards, vineyards, kiwifruit, pipfruit, market gardens, glasshouses, and the packhouses and coolstores that go with them. Use for any growing, picking, pruning, spraying,…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for lifting, slinging, rigging and dogging a load — choosing and de-rating slings, estimating the load and its centre of gravity, picking lifting gear (shackles, eyebolts, beams), and directing a crane lift safely.…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for confined space entry and work — managing unsafe atmospheres (asphyxiation, toxicity, fire/explosion), engulfment, and the ability to rescue. Use for any enclosed or partially enclosed space not designed for…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for excavation, trenching and ground disturbance — preventing collapse/engulfment and contact with underground services. Use for any work that breaks or penetrates the ground — trenches, excavations, pits, post…
Specialist in high-risk work competency and licensing for NZ and Australia — cranes, dogging, rigging, scaffolding, elevating work platforms (EWP), forklifts and hoists. Use to work out WHAT licence or competency a task needs and WHO may carry it out, and…
Use this skill to write or review a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) / safe system of work — the repeatable, trainable method for how a task is done safely. Triggers on "SOP", "standard operating procedure", "safe operating procedure", "safe system of…
The subject-matter expert (SME) you consult for work-related violence and aggression — preventing harm to workers (and the public) from assault, threats, aggression or armed offending. Use for customer/client-facing work, cash/valuables handling, lone or…