Practical Health & Safety Tools
Free, practical health and safety checklists, forms and templates for New Zealand businesses. A variety of free health and safety tools are provided in this collection.
Use these resources to inspect workplaces and equipment, manage risks, investigate incidents and improve your health and safety processes. For anyone wanting to manage health and safety better, these tools—many of which are free—are a great place to start.
Our tools are designed to help you focus on what matters: identifying significant risks, putting effective controls in place, and checking that those controls continue to work.
Important: These resources are general guidance tools. You must adapt them to your workplace, activities and risks. Using a checklist or template does not, by itself, ensure compliance with health and safety legislation.
Browse the resources below and download the tools you need. Take advantage of these health and safety tools available for free to help you manage your health and safety.
Warehouse Inspection Checklist
A practical checklist to help identify common warehouse hazards, inspect work areas and equipment, and record issues requiring action.
Download Warehouse Checklist (PDF)Forklift Safety Inspection
A structured inspection form to help check forklift condition, identify defects and record items requiring attention.
Download Forklift Checklist (PDF)Gantry Crane Inspection
Inspection checklists for gantry cranes, including a more detailed inspection and a shorter pre-start check.
Download Gantry Crane Checklists (PDF)Forklift Driver Competency Review
A form to help assess and document a forklift operator’s practical competency and identify any additional training or supervision needed.
Download Competency Review (PDF)Health & Safety Risk Register
An editable spreadsheet template for recording workplace risks, existing controls and further actions needed to manage those risks.
Download Risk Register (Excel)Serious Incident Investigation
A document to support the investigation of a serious incident, including gathering information and recording findings.
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We’re continually developing practical tools to help businesses manage Health & Safety more effectively. If there’s a checklist, inspection form, template or other tool that would help your business, we’d love to hear from you.
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