Industry Consultancy & Collaboration
Gain access to the lab’s scientific research resources, advanced metrics, and expert insights to transform your food safety culture.
Evidence-led and practice-oriented, we work with partners to translate research into measurable improvement, strengthening behaviours, systems, and decision-making across your organisation.
Improving Culture Through Partnership
Our researchers provide an authoritative voice on food safety culture in New Zealand, providing consultancy services to manufacturers, regulators, and industry organisations. We can help your organisation move beyond compliance to tackle complex human and behavioural challenges.
Our consultancy types range from short-term advisory roles to long-term collaborative research projects. We welcome commercial research proposals and partnerships.
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Capitalise on our expertise in "what works" to design training and communications that actually change behaviour. We can help you move beyond standard SOPs to create visually immersive, biometrically-optimised instructions and leadership training programs.
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Example: Co-designing a "Food Safety Culture Champion" peer-leadership programme.
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Our researchers can help your organisation objectively measure the "Say-Do" gap. Moving beyond self-reported surveys, we utilise AI, computer vision, and biometric tools to quantify actual food safety behaviours in real-time.
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Example: Using eye-tracking glasses to map employee attention and identify "blind spots" in Critical Control Point monitoring.
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We provide strategic advice to Boards and Executive Leadership Teams on safety culture maturity, governance, and risk oversight. We help leaders understand the psychological drivers of safety and how to foster a "Just Culture."
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Example: Developing board-level reporting metrics for food safety culture maturity.
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We have experience in creating evidence-based solutions to change habit loops. We can identify the hidden barriers to safe behaviour (e.g., time pressure, social norms) and pilot psychological interventions to overcome them.
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Example: identifying barriers to "speaking up" about near-misses on the factory floor.
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Our researchers have a range of expertise in the food safety space and can speak to specific problems like trust, blame, and compliance. We can facilitate safety culture workshops at your workplace or help design your internal safety conferences.
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Example: Facilitating a root-cause analysis workshop using human-factor principles.
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Ways to engage
The costs of each project vary depending on scope, duration, and IP arrangements. Please get in touch for specific quotes.
If you’re interested to talk more about engaging with us on one of these projects, please get in touch. We’d love to discuss your organisation’s food safety culture needs.
Engage a Master's or Honours student to tackle a specific problem over 6-12 months (highly cost-effective).Student Projects
Contract Research
Commission specific research or data analysis.
Consultancy
Hourly or daily advisory services.
Strategic Research Collaboration
Long-term co-funded research via the NZ Food Safety Science & Research Centre (NZFSSRC).