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Preventative Measures

OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE, HEALTH AND SAFETY CONSULTANTS

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Occupational Hygiene

By identifying and reducing the occupational hygiene, health and safety risks in the workplace, we can help you improve employee comfort, wellbeing and productivity as well as meet your organisation’s health and safety obligations. Our professional team is focused on practical ways to protect and promote the health of your people.

We have extensive experience across a range of industries, including manufacturing, mining, oil & gas production, council and the not for profits sector and have worked in New Zealand, Australia and SE Asia

As highly-skilled occupational hygienists, we design, implement and manage site-specific occupational hygiene services tailored for organisations and based on site-specific risks.

 Our comprehensive services include:

  • Development/review of an Occupational Health and Hygiene programs, including

    • Qualitative and quantitative health and hygiene risk assessments

    • Monitoring and health surveillance plans

    • Statistical analysis of health and hygiene monitoring data

    • Training, mentoring site Occupational Hygiene Technicians and H&S Advisors

    • Development of Occupational Hygiene procedures

  • Development and auditing of health surveillance programs (e.g. audiometric, blood lead, arsenic in urine, etc.)

  • Occupational hygiene awareness training tailored to meet your need, such as:

    • Correct use, maintenance and selection of Personal Protection Equipment (e.g. hearing protection, chemical gloves, etc)

    • Correct use, maintenance and selection of Respiratory Protective Equipment

    • Specific health and safety information (e.g. required PPE, clean up procedures, Occupational Hygiene air monitoring, health surveillance, etc) relating to a particular hazard on site. (e.g. mercury, etc)

  • Development and auditing of specific Occupational Hygiene hazards Management Plans and Procedures (e.g. Mercury, Lead, Asbestos, etc)

  • Shutdown planning and onsite support

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Health & Safety

Preventative Measures Ltd have been involved with the development, implementation and maintenance of health and safety management systems in multiple businesses in the Bay of Plenty, NZ.   We have actively supported small and medium size organisations on full and partial system development and implementation scopes.  


Preventative Measures takes a mentoring approach to build Health & Safety capacity within a business over a period of time with recurring site visits.   This approach requires time and resource contributions from the business and its employees.  The initial goal is to developed a practical business specific health and safety management system, with a secondary goal of embedding processes, skills and knowledge so that the business can undertake continuous improvement on its own health and safety management system with little to no external input in the future.

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 Our comprehensive services include:

  • Development/review of Health and Safety Management Systems

  • Health and Safety Risk Assessments

  • Health and Safety Procedure Development

  • Worker Engagement Processes

  • Hazard & Incident/Accident notification systems

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At Preventative Measures Ltd, we have an exceptional team of consultants with expertise in various areas. We’re committed to solving complex business challenges using the latest technology and data resources, combined with our creative and collaborative strategic approach. Learn more about some of our talented professionals below.

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Alex Smith

Principle Occupational Hygienist, Health and Safety Specialist

Alex is the principal Occupational Hygienist, Health and Safety Specialist at Preventative Measures.  He has tertiary qualifications in Occupational Hygiene, and Environmental Health with ten years’ experience in heavy industry as an Occupational Hygiene, Health & Safety Specialist. Alex’s professional career has seen him apply his trade in New Zealand, Australia and SE Asia across an array of industries, including on and off shore oil and gas production and refining, as well as mining; alumina, iron ore, lead, zinc, copper, gold, underground and open cut mining. He has a wide range of health and safety and hygiene experience, including health exposure risk assessment, health and safety training, hygiene data statistical analysis and management as well as Safety Management System development and implementation.
Alex has tertiary qualifications and significant experience in mentoring and educational roles which has fulfilled his passion for empowering teams and embedding health and safety skills, knowledge and behaviours in the organisations he works with.
Furthermore, Alex has ten years’ experience in public health and environmental management with government agencies in Australia.

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Contact Us

Rotorua, New Zealand

027 359 5580

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Coming Soon

South East Asian Occupational Hygiene, Health and Safety Consultants affiliated with Preventative Measures Ltd.  This new business will be based in Vientiane, Laos

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