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Human Resources Advice

Anna Ramm brings over 20 years of Senior Strategic and Operational Management, HR, Recruitment, and Learning and Development experience across diverse industries in the UK and NZ. This extensive background has equipped Anna with unique insights into small to medium-sized businesses, enabling her to craft innovative, practical solutions for her clients.

With a profound passion for both people and business, Anna effortlessly cultivates enduring relationships with business owners and managers, fostering trust and loyalty that keeps clients returning for her expertise time and time again. Her exceptional ability to interpret clients’ visions, coupled with her adept mentoring, development, and inspiration of others, ensures that each company she advises is in secure hands.

To learn more about this NZSDA Member benefit, login to your Members Section.

IT and Data Security

Minitech is an MSP (Managed Service Provider) looking after a range of businesses throughout NZ. The founders, Leo and Elizabeth both have experience working across multiple industries in their career history and have worked closely with a range of professionals, understanding the day-to-day requirements and pain points within those businesses. They are offering the following discounted services to NZSDA members:

Full Discovery Meeting & Consolidation Report – 20% off

In this meeting we want to hear from you what your pain points are and specifically look at the systems and apps you use. We will then provide a report on which tools could be replaced from within your existing suite, or if there is a more appropriate solution that meets the need for security, integration with your existing systems and cost-efficiency.

Migration from On Premise Servers to Cloud Based System – 15% off

  • For any companies still using an On-Premise server we would provide a start to finish process including:
  • Explaining the benefits of shifting to a cloud-based system
  • Carrying out the migration of data with minimal impact to your business
  • Our team will provide training on the new set up for all staff to ensure a seamless transition
  • Improving security for the on-prem server if there is a need to retain it for some business processes

Backing up your data – 15% off

Knowing that your emails and files are safe and accessible if needed is crucial for many professions but can be more challenging for industries with significantly larger files to deal with, and we have experience in this area. We can help with:

  • Understanding of your business process (where is everything stored currently)
  • Explaining best practice when it comes to back up solutions
  • Implementing and managing back-ups as an ongoing service

To learn more about this NZSDA Member benefit, login to your Members Section.

Health and Safety Policies

  • Comprehensive 80+ page manual that is specific to your company (logos and names and roles are all in there)
  • A number of different tools that are specific to the industry and the work being carried out. ie. Induction forms, Checklists, Task/Risk Analysis, Risk Register specific to your company, internal training sheets for your staff, hazard management tools, accident and incident investigation and reporting tools etc.

Business Insurance

Business Insurance Limited is proud to partner with the NZSDA and to be providing tailored insurance solutions, advice and service for NZSDA members nationwide. Business Insurance limited understands all business are different in many ways and will look to understand your business and people before providing practical and appropriate advice.

Business Insurance Limited works with the country’s leading Insurers to ensure our customers have the most innovative products and wordings available to them from financially sound and trusted insurers.

Please feel free to contact the team at Business Insurance Limited anytime to arrange a no-obligation discussion around your tailored insurance program.

P: 03 339 7065 |  E: reilly@bil.co.nz 

Short-Term Business Funding

Keep your business moving with Taxi — Exclusive NZSDA Member discount

At Taxi, we know that managing cash flow is a constant challenge for sign and display businesses. That’s why we provide flexible, affordable lending solutions designed to give you access to the funds you need — without the hassle. As a sister company of Tax Traders, we’re trusted by businesses across New Zealand to deliver stress-free business funding.

NZSDA members get an exclusive 10% discount on monthly fees with the code *****

Visit the members section of our website to learn more and access your discount code!

First Aid

First Aid training you can trust…

Red Cross is the global leader in first aid training. They have provided first aid in New Zealand and throughout the world in teaching and disaster response capacities for over 100 years.  Their courses are based on world-class research and Red Cross’ on-going commitment to quality and excellence.

Red Cross can provide first aid training and courses by qualified instructors to over 70 locations nationwide all aligned with NZQA standards.  All courses are hands-on, where participants gain the practical skills and confidence to perform first aid whenever and wherever they might need it.

As well as classroom learning, they also offer a flexible approach through blended learning options – a combination of digital and face-to-face options. Some courses can be partly self-taught through the Red Cross First Aid app or through an online learning platform.

First aid training is a cornerstone of New Zealand Red Cross’ mission to strengthen community and workplace resilience, so the more people who are first aid trained in your workplace, the better prepared everyone will be when it matters the most!

By doing your first aid training with New Zealand Red Cross, not only will you learn to save a life, but you will be keeping your staff, clients and the public safe in and around the workplace and community, bettering the way you do business and adding value to what you do everyday.

Working at Heights

Site Safe is a national not-for-profit health and safety organisation. Formed in 1999 by the construction industry, Site Safe’s goal is to help companies reduce workplace injuries by creating a positive change in health and safety culture.

To do this, Site Safe provides training and resources on best practice systems and behaviours known to improve health and safety.  In addition to education, Site Safe also offers auditing and consulting services, and health and safety kits for small businesses.

NZSDA is a trade association member to Site Safe. NZSDA members qualify for a trade association discount on subscriptions. Simply provide proof of your NZSDA membership when you join Site Safe, and you will receive an automatic 10 per cent discount on your annual subscription fee.

Accessman is New Zealand’s leading hire company supplying Scissorlifts, Cherry Pickers and Knucklebooms to the construction industry.

Accessman has led the EWP market since its inception in 1994.  Our key strength is that we operate in a niche market, EWPs is what we do, and we are experts in the best brands and models in use, not only in New Zealand, but internationally.  We know what works and what doesn’t and continue to drive the NZ market with innovation and new technology specific to our client’s requirements.

With over 1000 machines nationwide and our franchise system growing we are excited to now be able to partner with the NZ Sign and Design Association to offer members a 30% discount on the standard hire rate of our machines.

Accessman are also key drivers of Health and Safety and EWP training in NZ and we offer both HIANZ and IPAF EWP training.

NZSDA and Accessman have recently come together to offer members 30% discount on hireage of access equipment, helping our members save money and time so they can get on and do better business.  To find out more go to the members section of the website.

Equipment Hire

The Hirepool brand has been operating in New Zealand since 1955 and has a national footprint of 70+ locations, so we can offer you nationwide capabilities, a well-maintained fleet and knowledgeable staff.

We have experience, large range of hire fleet and we can provide you with member benefits, enhanced products, services and customer support. We’ve got a range of high-quality cherry pickers, scissor lifts, portable scaffolding and other access equipment. All of our gear is safe, compliant and checked every time before it leaves the gate.

To make sure you are getting the best deal for your business go to the members section of this website. Get all your access equipment from Hirepool.

You can Hirepool that!!

Brent Riggs

M 021 978 584   |   0800 15 15 15 | brent.riggs@hirepool.co.nz

Training and Education

Signee was created to align with NZSDA’s mission and vision. It acknowledges the need for a training programme at entry level into industry and accelerated training opportunities for existing members within the industry.

We are offering the Signee workbook and online courses to NZSDA members as a FREE onboarding tool for new staff.

The Signee training courses focus on developing skills and knowledge of industry standards in the ‘core‘ six pillars of sign making in New Zealand.

Competenz is one of New Zealand’s industry training organisations that work with over 3,500 companies and 20,000+ learners in 37 industries around New Zealand to build skills, careers and businesses. Most learning takes place on-the-job.  Competenz works with experts from each industry and support to develop nationally recognised qualifications (New Zealand and National Certificates and Diplomas).

Competenz help structure tailored training plans around the country with the assistance of 70 account managers that specialise in certain industries. They work with companies to build training plans tailored to their businesses – then help their learners gain their skills in the workplace.

Competenz helps make the learning happen and can provides training materials and eLearning, visits to workplaces to check on progress, arrange for learners to complete any off-job training they need (e.g. at a polytechnic), assesses (or arrange assessments) to confirm learners have built their skills, moderates assessments to make sure they are fair, valid and consistent across the country and registers learners’ success with the New Zealand Qualifications Authority.

Competenz also support our industry amongst others in many ways, including promoting careers in these industries, sponsoring industry events like conferences and competitions, offering scholarships and celebrating learners’ success.

To find out more about Competenz or how to become an apprentice view more details at this link.

Benefits

The NZ Sign & Display Association has partnered with n3 to help you reduce your business costs across a wide range of leading New Zealand Suppliers. NZSDA members get access to an n3 full Membership at no additional cost.

As a business buying network with over 16,000 Members, n3 is dedicated to making it simple for businesses to save money.

Their strength in numbers gives them the ability to negotiate exclusive pricing and terms of supply with New Zealand’s leading Suppliers. From building supplies to fuel, stationery to health and safety gear, n3 offers discounts on everything you need to run your business at a lower cost.

By leveraging discounts from n3 Suppliers, an n3 small business saved on average $6,927* last year.

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