Safety Hub

About

Safety Hub is an NZQA Registered (PTE) provider of high quality online Health and Safety Training. Your own time, your own place, your own pace!

Story

ABOUT TONY TIKIKU



My Experience

I learned about the importance of Health and Safety while training as an Air Force pilot. I still remember my instructor saying to me by the end of the course, you will think differently. I did! Flying became a process of quickly assessing risks and taking action. All built on a foundation of systems and checks learned the hard way, over many years.

After flying the Hercules it was a natural fit to move into flight safety with the Air Force. However, I got interested in general Health and Safety. The military is full of risks given there are so many trades, tasks and work going on to support the more visible roles.

I pursued formal and any informal training opportunity I could, and was surrounded by professionals like Occupation Hygienists (I learned they don’t keep the workplace clean!), Environmental Health Officers and ex-DoL inspectors. I left the Air Force with excellent qualifications, experience and exposure to a range of Health and Safety workplace risks.

I then managed the ACC’s workplace Injury Prevention team. Our task was to write the programs that would help businesses in New Zealand remain safe. My biggest learning was to use data to focus on the right risks. Safety can be somewhat emotional, and businesses need to focus on the things that can hurt people and deal with those issues – and not necessarily the ‘squeaky wheel’. And of course, how the ACC can provide discounts for a business on their ACC levies, with the right safety systems in place.

Next, I moved on to become a portfolio manager with the newly established WorkSafe New Zealand. My team wrote the guidance and Codes explaining how and what people should do to remain safe in their workplace. I had great exposure to what WorkSafe are looking for and expecting from businesses.

I left WorkSafe to contract for Chorus, developing an understanding of corporate needs and challenges relating to safety and the management of safety programmes and practises.

My work has always been to develop ways to make workplaces safer for as many New Zealanders as possible! And how best to do this? Through high quality training, delivered in a way that as many people as possible can access.

Thus, Safety Hub was born!

Safety Hub is a Registerd PTE. We guarantee high quality training that is NZQA accredited, that meets the standards required by NZ Legislation. Anything less is not good enough!

Our courses are delivered online. Your own time, your own place, your own pace!