Data, Reporting & Analytics

About The Warehouse Group The Warehouse Group is one of New Zealand's largest and most iconic retailers. Founded by Sir Stephen Tindall in 1982, it operates three beloved Kiwi brands: The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery, and Noel Leeming. The Group serves customers nationwide across hundreds of stores, supported by a large and complex distribution network. Its North Island Distribution Centre is one of the biggest DCs in New Zealand, handling everything from general merchand

If you've ever done a safety walk, you know the routine. Grab the clipboard (or the tablet, if you've gone digital). Walk the floor. Check the usual spots. Note what you see. File the report. Repeat next week. Safety walks are one of the most established practices in workplace health and safety. They're recommended by OSHA , required under New Zealand's Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA) as part of proactive risk management, and endorsed by Safe Work Australia as a core e

This blog provides general information about how workplace safety data and CCTV footage may be relevant in investigations and audits. It is not legal advice. For guidance specific to your situation, consult a qualified legal professional. When a WorkSafe inspector arrives following a serious incident, or when your ISO 45001 certification audit is scheduled for next quarter, there is one question that cuts through everything else: what does your evidence actually show? Not wha

When safety teams evaluate AI monitoring platforms, the pitch they usually hear sounds something like this: "Our system detects unsafe behaviours in real time and sends alerts so you can act before an incident occurs." That is not a bad pitch. Real-time detection is genuinely useful, and most of the platforms that deliver it do so well. But there is a question that pitch leaves unanswered: what happens after the alert? Because alerts, on their own, do not change behaviour. Th

If I asked you to point to the most dangerous spot in your facility right now, you'd probably have a pretty good answer. The intersection near the loading dock. The blind corner behind Rack 12. The pedestrian crossing by the dispatch area. But would you be right? And more importantly, would you know whether it's more dangerous at 6am than at 2pm, whether the risk shifted after you rearranged the racking last month, or whether your third-party delivery drivers create a differe

Ask most EHS managers what they measure, and you'll get the same list: lost-time injury rate, total recordable incident rate, workers' compensation claims, days away from work. These are all lagging indicators, and they're all telling you the same thing: what already went wrong. There's nothing wrong with tracking them. You need lagging indicators for compliance reporting, benchmarking, and understanding the severity of incidents after they occur. But if lagging indicators ar

Here is a question worth asking at your next safety meeting: how much of your safety data tells you what already went wrong, and how much tells you what is about to? For most organisations, the honest answer is heavily weighted toward the past. Incident rates. Lost-time injuries. Workers' compensation claims. DART cases. These are the metrics that fill safety reports, get presented to boards, and satisfy regulatory requirements. They are also, by definition, a record of failu