Health & Safety Document Templates for New Zealand Businesses
The documents that make up a working health and safety system — policy, procedures, registers, forms and permits — each written to the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and the regulations made under it, not relabelled from Australian source material. Every document is sold on its own at a single price. Buy the one you need.
15 H&S Templates documents
HSWA 2015 + HSWR 2016 aligned · NZ-specific (not AU relabels) · Editable .docx · Instant download · One-time payment
Incident & Near-Miss Report Form (NZ)
A single reporting form that captures the event, applies the HSWA 2015 notifiable-event tests, and tells the person filling it in whether Wo…
Incident Investigation Report (NZ)
The document that turns a reported event into a defensible finding — structured causal analysis, corrective actions ranked against the hiera…
Hazard Register Template (NZ)
A working hazard register built on the HSWA duty to manage risk — not a list of hazards, but a live record of what was identified, what cont…
Risk Assessment Template (NZ)
A task-level risk assessment with a scoring method written out in full — so two assessors working the same task arrive at the same rating, a…
Risk Register Template (NZ)
The business-level register that sits above your hazard register — critical risks, named owners, treatment plans with dates, and a governanc…
Health and Safety Policy Template (NZ)
The signed statement that sits at the top of your H&S system — written in HSWA 2015 duty language, with the PCBU, officer, worker and other-…
Health & Safety Manual (NZ)
Fourteen documented procedures that turn a signed policy into a working system — hazard management, incident response, contractor control, e…
Emergency Response Plan (NZ)
Regulation 14 does not just require an emergency plan — it requires communication procedures, testing of those procedures, and instruction f…
Hazardous Substances Register & Inventory (NZ)
The inventory required under the HSW (Hazardous Substances) Regulations 2017, structured so it also does the work you actually need it for —…
Hot Work Permit (NZ)
A permit that controls the risk where it actually sits — not during the welding, but in the hour after everyone has packed up and left a smo…
Confined Space Entry Permit (NZ)
Atmospheric testing before and during entry, isolation verified rather than assumed, a standby person who never enters, and a rescue plan th…
Site Induction Pack (NZ)
Induction content, an attendance register that actually evidences understanding, competence verification for the tickets people claim to hol…
Toolbox Talk Record (NZ)
The record form and register that turn a conversation on the tools into worker-participation evidence — who was there, what was raised, what…
Business Continuity Plan (NZ)
What the business does when it cannot operate normally — which functions come back first, how long they can be down before it hurts, and who…
SWMS in New Zealand — and what to use instead
A Safe Work Method Statement is an Australian instrument created by Australian regulation. New Zealand has no equivalent provision, and no N…
View →Frequently asked
Which documents do I actually need?
It depends on your position. A subcontractor working under a main contractor's system usually needs a health and safety policy and a hazard register to start. A business running its own system — or applying for SiteWise or Tōtika — generally needs the policy, the manual, the hazard and risk registers, incident reporting, and an emergency plan. Permits are task-specific and only needed if you do that work.
Do these documents need to be different for each region?
No. New Zealand is a single jurisdiction — HSWA 2015 and its regulations apply nationwide under one regulator. Unlike Australia, where each state and territory has its own work health and safety law, there are no regional variants to choose between. One document covers the whole country.
Are these Australian templates with the names changed?
No, and that distinction is the point. Australian documents cite the WHS Act, use SWMS as the task-level instrument, and omit the officer due-diligence duty in the form HSWA created it. These are drafted from New Zealand legislation with the duty and regulation numbers stated inline.
Will these get me through SiteWise or Tōtika prequalification?
They supply the documented-system layer that prequalification assesses, which is where most applications fall short. What no template can supply is evidence the system is in use — completed records, signed toolbox talks, closed-out corrective actions built up over months. Assessors look for both.
Is there a discount for buying several?
No. Each document is sold at a single price on its own. We do not run bundles or multi-document discounts.
Do you sell a SWMS for New Zealand?
No, because New Zealand has no statutory SWMS. A SWMS is an Australian instrument required under Australian WHS regulations for high-risk construction work. In New Zealand the equivalents are the Site-Specific Safety Plan at project level and a Job Safety Analysis or Task Analysis at task level.
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