Biosecurity Business Pledge
The Biosecurity Business Pledge Incorporated aims to help all businesses take a proactive approach to their biosecurity practices.
Developed by business to provide a framework for managing the risk of unwanted pests and diseases (plant or animal) disrupting individual businesses or even whole sectors.
This framework is designed to make biosecurity a core part of operational activity and assist businesses to reduce risks as well as meet their corporate and social responsibilities.
Taking a proactive approach is not only good for your individual business or sector, but helps protect our economy, unique natural environment and our way of life.
Join today to access a range of practical hands-on learning sessions such as our members forums and online seminars where your peers and other industry leaders will share their biosecurity practices. Biosecurity New Zealand supports the Pledge and the senior team share latest insights in the pre-border, border and post-border working environment.
Biosecurity Business Pledge Incorporated
Over the past 15 months, work has been underway to transition the Pledge to a new structure to support momentum and ongoing delivery of value appropriate to the growing membership.
Rules to guide the new entity
The objectives in the rules reflect the focus and vision with which the Pledge has operated since its inception, as well as reflect the more formal requirements of an incorporated society.
Rules to the Biosecurity Business Pledge Incorporated [PDF, 158KB]
Membership application for the new society
You will need to complete a new membership application form to help us bring you on into the new entity and let us know which fee category you fit into.
Our annual subscription fee structure ranges from $400 for our smallest members to $5,000 for our largest.
If you are an existing Pledge signatory company, please use the link below:
Membership form and consent to take previously held information from MPI
Any other questions please contact the Executive Director, Debbie Teale, on debbie@debbieteale.co.nz or mobile 021 811 866.
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.
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.
Join leading businesses today to better protect New Zealand’s natural environment, lifestyle and livelihoods.
Biosecurity Governance for New Zealand’s board tables
Accountability for biosecurity risks should sit at the most senior levels of leadership and be on risk registers with regular reporting and discussion at senior levels. The CEO Guide to Managing Biosecurity Risk and Biosecurity Considerations for Boards are guidelines designed to support businesses in taking top-down leadership through the development of high-level biosecurity risk plans that can be tailored for individual companies. These guidelines are valuable tools that will shape efforts to protect our businesses, New Zealand’s unique environment and the economy.
The guidelines were co-designed by members of the Pledge in consultation with a selection of Pledge chief executives and governors. If you have any questions about these guidelines or the Biosecurity Business Pledge, contact Debbie Teale, executive director of the Pledge debbie@debbieteale.co.nz or 021 811 866.
CEO guide to the management of biosecurity risk [PDF, 320KB] | Biosecurity considerations for Boards [PDF, 415KB] |
Pledge members
Find out which companies and associations have signed up
Executive Committee and Member Reference Group
Meet the leaders from business and industry who are part of our reference and funders group
How to join the pledge
Sign your business up today
Tools and templates
A range of biosecurity resources created by our pledge members
News, stories and case studies
Read about the different businesses doing their bit for biosecurity across the country
Members' resources
Access a range of templates and tools that have been developed by business for business to help Pledge members strengthen their biosecurity practices
Key event dates
New members' webinar: 10am - 11am, 20 June 2024
All members' webinar: 2pm -3pm, 26 June 2024
All members' webinar: 11am - 12 noon, 11 July 2024
August is Biosecurity Awareness Month - join us for a range of activities
All members' webinar: 2pm - 3pm, 28 August 2024
- James Reed and Pauline Williamson, Biosecurity New Zealand - update on all things TF related
Ports of First Arrivals (PoFAs) Readiness and Response workshop at MPI Centre Auckland - timing TBC
News and stories
Story
Spotlight on a Pledge member: NZ Post – on the frontline of biosecurity
With biosecurity threats increasing at the border, NZ Post’s International Mail Centre (IMC), has a critical role to play alongside Biosecurity New Zealand (BNZ) in preventing the introduction and spread of harmful organisms in New Zealand.
Story
Building the biosecurity toolbox - Unwanted pest and diseases ID cards
The Pledge has produced an introductory set of ID cards that help to identify some of the high-risk pests and diseases that need to be kept out of New Zealand.
News
A significant milestone for the Biosecurity Business Pledge
The Hon Andrew Hoggard, Minister for Biosecurity, joined Biosecurity Business Pledge members to celebrate the inaugural AGM of the Biosecurity Business Pledge Incorporated Society.