Zest Safety helps operational leaders get control of serious health and safety risks — without the stress, noise, or guesswork.

 

Working across New Zealand and Australia, we partner with organisations that care deeply about their people but feel the weight of responsibility, pressure, and uncertainty that comes with modern operations.

 

Most of our clients don’t come to us because they lack policies or intent. They come to us because:

• They’re not fully confident where their biggest life-changing risks sit

• Their systems look compliant, but don’t always hold up in reality

• Leaders are accountable, but too far from the work

• And safety feels harder to manage than it should be

 

Zest Safety exists to close that gap — calmly, practically, and alongside your people.

How we help 

We work with organisations to simplify safety, focus attention where it really matters, and support leaders to make strong decisions under real operational pressure.

 

Our approach is:

• Personal — we work with your leaders, not just your documents

• Practical — grounded in how work actually happens

• Focused — prioritising serious harm prevention over noise

• Easy to work with — clear advice, no jargon, no theatre

Clients often tell us we make safety feel lighter, not heavier.

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Our Services  

What we specialise in

Rather than offering everything, Zest Safety deliberately focuses on the areas where we are the experts, where failure has the greatest consequences — and where leaders feel the most pressure.

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⭐ Critical Risk & Fatality Prevention Program

Clarity on life-changing risks, confidence that the controls preventing them truly work.

For leaders who carry responsibility for serious harm risk but lack clear visibility or assurance. This flagship program identifies where people could be seriously injured or killed, why controls fail in practice, and what must never be compromised — without adding unnecessary complexity.

⭐ Risk Management That Focuses on What Matters

Cutting through risk registers to focus on the hazards that could seriously injure or kill.

We help organisations prioritise real-world exposure rather than drowning in generic risk lists, so effort is spent where it actually reduces harm.

⭐ Health & Safety Systems That Work in Practice

Simple, practical systems that make sense in the real world and hold up under pressure.

We design and simplify health and safety systems so leaders can explain them, supervisors can apply them, and workers can follow them — consistently.

⭐ Safety Leadership & Culture Change

Helping leaders turn good intentions into everyday behaviours that reduce real risk.

We support leaders at all levels to strengthen safety conversations, increase presence where risk exists, and align decisions with stated safety values.

⭐ Machinery Safety Assessments (AS/NZS 4024)

Clear, defensible machinery safety advice focused on what actually prevents serious injury.

Independent assessments by Certified Machinery Safety Experts (CMSE®), prioritised and explained in plain language so leaders know what truly needs attention.

⭐ Serious Incident & Notifiable Accident Investigations

Calm, structured investigation support when pressure is high and decisions really matter.

We support organisations through serious and notifiable incidents, helping establish what really happened, manage regulator engagement appropriately, and prevent recurrence.

 

Our wider contribution

Beyond client work, we actively contribute to improving health and safety outcomes more broadly by:

• Sharing free safety leadership and topical issue videos via YouTube, LinkedIn, and TikTok

• Advocating for better safety conversations across New Zealand workplaces

• Providing practical insights that help leaders think differently about risk

 

Partnering with Zest Safety doesn’t just improve outcomes in your business — it contributes to safer work across the wider system.

Call to action

If you’re carrying responsibility for people, operations, or risk — and want clarity without the hassle — start with a conversation.

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Get in touch for a free initial discussion.