Biosecurity Business Pledge

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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.

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]

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.

Pledge members

Pledge members

Find out which companies and associations have signed up

Executive Committee and Member Reference Group

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

How to join the pledge

Sign your business up today

Tools and templates

Tools and templates

A range of biosecurity resources created by our pledge members

News, stories and case studies

News, stories and case studies

Read about the different businesses doing their bit for biosecurity across the country

Members' resources

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

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Key event dates

Members' webinar: 10am -11am, 15 February 2024

Speakers joining us:

  • Diane McDermott - Central/South Commissioner, Biosecurity New Zealand will provide an update of what happened at the border over the summer season.
  • Independent Verification Services Group (IVS), which provides independent assurance services to businesses, industry sectors, and regulatory bodies will talk about the need for biosecurity training in your business, and provide some tips based on their years of providing training, testing, and support services to importing and exporting businesses across all sectors of NZ.
  • Final speaker TBC

News and stories

Spotlight on a Pledge member: NZ Post – on the frontline of biosecurity

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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.

Building the biosecurity toolbox - Unwanted pest and diseases ID cards

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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.

A significant milestone for the Biosecurity Business Pledge

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.