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Safeguarding New Zealand businesses and our economy through proactive biosecurity management
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The Biosecurity Business Pledge Incorporated helps businesses take a proactive approach to their biosecurity practices.
Biosecurity is about preserving our natural advantages.
New Zealand’s economy is strongly linked to the health of our natural environment. Our small size also means many businesses are built on the value created from our natural assets.
The Biosecurity Business Pledge Incorporated is the first initiative of its kind to create a pre-competitive network across the business community to:
- equip businesses with the knowledge and tools needed for effective biosecurity risk management.
- enhance the two-way flow of information between the business community and government to strengthen New Zealand’s biosecurity system as a whole.
Taking a proactive approach is good for individual businesses and the sectors, and helps protect our economy, unique natural environment and way of life. The total economic costs of biosecurity to the New Zealand primary sector has been estimated to be approximately $6 billion dollars when considering both production losses and defensive expenditures (Economic costs of pests to New Zealand: 2020 update. Prepared for MPI by NimmoBell & Associates). Managing down these costs has never been more important as the New Zealand economy continues to experience COVID-19’s economic legacy.
Pledge members have a collective commitment to positively contribute to Aotearoa New Zealand having one of the best biosecurity systems in the world. Pledge participation is one way to make an active contribution and share practices for better biosecurity outcomes for all.
The pledge made by participating businesses
Businesses pledge to play their part in the efforts to prevent pests and diseases from getting into New Zealand or helping to stop their spread if they do get here.
Businesses commit to being an active part of New Zealand’s biosecurity team of all New Zealanders by integrating proactive biosecurity practices into their operations and supply chains
Join leading businesses today to better protect New Zealand’s natural environment, lifestyle and livelihoods.
You Will:
- actively seek to understand and manage the biosecurity considerations associated with their business activities
- promote a culture of proactive biosecurity management within their operations, across their business, around their board tables, and across their teams
- incorporate biosecurity into their procurement policies that guide the selection of goods, travel, logistics, and service providers
- take opportunities to support their customers, staff, suppliers and stakeholders to understand the importance of biosecurity and what good biosecurity practice looks like
- approach biosecurity with the views that it is everyone’s responsibility, that risk is best managed offshore, and that they will actively engage with the Biosecurity New Zealand to support better biosecurity outcomes for New Zealand.