Compliance
How can NZ social and health services keep up with constant policy change?
Keeping a policy framework current in NZ social and health services is genuinely hard. The realistic options — and what generic HR templates miss.
Responsible AI Governance in NZ & Australia: A Board-Ready Guide
The challenge is clear: how do we harness AI responsibly while ensuring compliance, equity, and defensibility?.
Best System for Keeping Policies Up to Date in NZ
Keeping policies current isn’t just about compliance — it’s about protecting your organisation, your staff, and the people you serve.
What Policies Do We Need? A Simple Guide for NZ Agencies
In this post, we look at some of the "must-have" policies that every organisation needs, plus service-specific policies that depend on what you do. .
Policies in the age of AI Hallucinations
In our everyday life, we wouldn't rely on a person for advice who is known to hallucinate from time to time in their advice-giving. For the same reason, we cannot....
The Policy Place: Audit‑Ready Policies for Health, Disability, and Social Service Organisations
We’ve recently discovered that a large HR company is paying to appear first in search results when people look for us. So let’s set the record straight — here’s who....
Are you a Health or Disability Service Provider Without Knowing it? Why it Matters
Under New Zealand law, it's the nature of the service that counts, not whether you're government-funded or operating in a clinical setting.
Onboarding staff to your policies and procedures
When onboarding staff you need introduce them to some key policies. But can you do that without boring them to death? And can you do it in a meaningful way?.
Legislative compliance – we have you covered
We don’t just say we’ll comply with the law via a legislative compliance policy. We have the processes in place to do it. Here's how.
Privacy policy – time for review and update
At the Policy Place we've just finished reviewing and updating the core content of our online privacy policy pages.
Open disclosure for good policy and practice
What's open disclosure and how should your policies and procedures provide for it?.