Simple Effective Solutions
- Health & Safety Solutions
- Quality Management Solutions
- Environmental Solutions
- Asbestos Management Plans
- Tailored Business Solutions
- Large & Small businesses
Welcome to Simple Effective Solutions, where we provide Health and Safety, Environmental and Quality Management solutions that work for you.
Don Richards, as the Director of Simple Effective Solutions, provides pragmatic Health and Safety, Environmental and Quality Management solutions that meet both your legal and business requirements. He can also combine your systems to provide an integrated complete package.
Don offers his extensive hands on experience in designing and implementing systems that work for, and not against, you.
In addition, Don undertakes asbestos surveys and compiles Asbestos Management Plans for residential and light commercial buildings. The Health and Safety at Work (Asbestos) Regulations 2016 require PCBU’s (business and sole traders etc) to have a written plan (an asbestos management plan).
Call Don today to discuss your needs or click here to send an email.
Services
We will come to your business premises and assess the current state of the system or systems you want evaluated.
We will then provide a gap analysis which will identify what is required to meet either your business requirements or the requirements of the respective standard or code.
The amount of record keeping and documentation in any system should be directly proportional to the size of your company, the complexity of the work undertaken and the amount of risk involved.
Small companies that undertake straightforward work that carry little risk requires less record keeping than larger and more complex ones.
We pride ourselves in not over engineering the solutions we provide. We keep things simple and effective.
Health and Safety Solutions
Don Richards, the Director of Simple Effective Solutions has over 15 years of hands-on experience in Health and Safety, starting in 1998 when he set up the Health and Safety System for Standards New Zealand. He was on the Health and Safety Committee for Transpower and was the Secretary of the BRANZ (Building Research Association of New Zealand) Health and Safety Committee for 11 years.
Don was an integral part of the team that won the 2015 ACC Workplace Safety Award in the Wellington Gold Awards and you will benefit from his expertise which includes:
- Requirements of the new regulations
- Policy documentation
- Risk (Hazard) identification and management
- Worker engagement
- Health and Safety committees – establishing and running
- Accident and Incident - reporting and investigation
- Return to work following injury
- DPI (Discomfort, Pain and Injury) previously known as OOS, RSI or GPI
- Contractor engagement
- Training courses
- Audits
- Continuous improvement
Asbestos Management Plans
Don has the International proficiency certificate in IP 402 Surveying and sampling strategies for asbestos in Buildings and uses an internationally recognised algorithm to identify Asbestos Containing Materials (ACMs) and record their potential to release fibres. The algorithm provides numeric values for a number of variables such as product type, condition and surface treatment.
As a general rule, if a building was built between the late 1940s and the late 1970’s it is highly likely that it will have asbestos containing material.
Buildings constructed between the 1980s and late 1990s are likely to contain asbestos containing material and those constructed beyond the year 2000 are unlikely to contain asbestos containing material.
Environmental Solutions
Don developed the BRANZ Environmental Management system from scratch and it was a finalist in the 2016 Wellington Gold awards. You will benefit from his expertise in:
- Complying with legal and statutory requirements.
- Complying with the requirements of the standard – if appropriate
- Policy documentation
- Aspects and Impacts (Risk) identification and management
- Waste minimisation
- Workplace travel plan
- Training courses
- Audits
- Continuous improvement
Quality Solutions
Don was the Quality Manager for Standard New Zealand for four years and implemented ISO 9001 after three previous attempts by previous Managers failed.
He was the Business Excellence Manager for IRL prior to being the Quality Manager for BRANZ for 11 years. Don implemented solutions that gained praise from TELARC and IANZ auditors for their simplicity and its effectiveness including:
- Complying with legal and statutory requirements.
- Complying with the requirements of the standard – if appropriate
- Policy documentation
- Risk Management
- Change Management
- Project Management and mentoring
- Audits
- Training courses
- Customer satisfaction surveys
- Continuous improvement including good ideas, complaints, corrective actions and audit recommendations
- Setting quality objectives
