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Safety Management Services
Nelson, New Zealand
Links Bruce Recommends
Important links for HSNO and ERMA
The home website for the Ministry for the Environment [MFE]
The home website for the Environmental Risk Management Authority [ERMA]
HSNO Acts - this link will bring up the Statutes of New Zealand home page. Once here you will need to type in "Hazardous" to bring up the sub menu then click on Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996.
HSNO Regulations - to view the HSNO regulations - this link will bring up the Regulations of New Zealand home page. Once here you will need to type in "Hazardous" enter then there you will see several sub menus on the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Regulations.
Gazette35 - This is a key compliance document. This is ERMA's consolidated version produced by ERMA as an information resource. Produced August 2006
HSNO Group StandardsWhat are Group Standards?
Group Standards Update #1
Group Standards Update #2
Group Standards Update #3
ERMA "Quick Guide, for Approved Handlers"
ERMA has provided a package of Assessment guidelines to aid the correct issue of Appropriate AH Certificates:
ERMA has produced an information sheet on Approved Handler interpretations for Pesticides:
An excellant brief for farmers on tracking has been published
ERMA’s guideline on Controlled Substances Licence’s [CSL]
ERMA’s application form for a CSL: [for cyanide, 1080 etc]
Emergency Management/Containment or bunding [for signage]
Emergency Management/Containment or bunding [for plans]
Signage: The New Zealand Chemical Industry Council (NZCIC) has an Approved Code of Practice on signage which provides one means of compliance with the HSNO legislation.
http://www.ermanz.govt.nz/hs/compliance/codesofpractice.html
http://www.nzcic.org.nz/
Important links for Approved Handler Training
Renewal of Approved Handler status
NZ Agrichemical Education Trust. See their website:
‘Suppliers’ have their own training course known as the "National Certificate in Agrichemical Supply that has different strands in Plant Protection and Animal Health Products"
Important links for Transport
Land Transport NZ now a part of the Transport Agency
Transporting Dangerous Goods
New Zealand Search Engines
NZS.com — New Zealand Web directory and search engine.