eSafety was created in 2009 during a brainstorming session (over a beer or two) about what was missing in the Health & Safety market. The revelation was that there was nothing to cater for everyone from the self-employed person to large businesses only requiring a Health and Safety Policy, or a policy with prequalification or consultancy services.
Rod had already been creating H&S policies for many years, so it was decided that he would create different versions for different business requirements. Then, using our extensive and ever-growing collection of risk modules, the idea was formed about how the website could work simply to provide quick, yet effective and still personalised information, to create a policy for a business.
eSafety started as a sideline while Rod focused on his existing consultancy business. Demand picked up around 2015, and by 2017 eSafety had become his main business. eSafety has now sold over 2,000 personalised Health & Safety policies to individual New Zealand businesses, with many clients returning for regular renewals.
Thanks to this model and many years of experience in the H&S industry (since 2000 for the director) we can provide policies at a cost-effective price for all sized businesses.
Just because the policies are done online, they are not just thrown together. If any risks have been possibly incorrectly selected or missed in a module, we will ring the client to check, or for a myriad of other reasons. Rod is on the phone a lot. This is not only because he is precious about these things, but every policy we put out not only represents our client but it represents us as a company, and we want to make us both look fantastic.
We are firm believers in business being for the benefit of both parties.
Carrying that same thinking forward, we’ve now built the eSafety App — practical, no-nonsense Health & Safety software for New Zealand businesses, from sole traders and trade crews through to growing companies managing multiple sites, contractors and dozens of workers. The Lite plan supports up to 15 active workers and 2 App logins; Standard starts at 50 active workers and 5 logins, with expansion packs for additional workers and users. JSAs, SWMS, SOPs, safety meetings, inspections, incident reporting, training records, worker and contractor management and more are all in one place — built to make sense to people on the tools and the people coordinating safety across the business.
It’s designed to be genuinely easy to use, priced fairly with no contracts and no tricks, because practical Health & Safety software shouldn’t require a big-player budget.
The policy service and the app can be used on their own or together. Get a policy written, run your ongoing H&S through the app, or do both and have the whole thing joined up. Whichever way suits your business, the aim’s the same as it’s always been — quick, effective, personalised, and fair to everyone involved.
