OSACO New Zealand Limited
Global Expertise in Workplace Investigation, Safeguarding and Training
Nāu te rourou, nāku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi.
With your food basket and my food basket the people will thrive.
We are specialists in Organisational Integrity and Standards
As a proudly owned and operated New Zealand company, OSACO Group has enhanced its focus on supporting workplaces here in Aotearoa with a specialist office, OSACO New Zealand. We help organisations anticipate, identify and combat unacceptable conduct by people who work for them or those who work on their behalf.
Our Aotearoa New Zealand team bring decades of international, in-the-field knowledge to help create safer, more secure and compliant environments. We have assembled a team of expert human risk consultants with expertise in law, investigation, training and international investigations.
Based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, with experts throughout the motu, we offer objective independent and multi-disciplinary services and support tailored to your organisation’s needs, remotely or in-person.
How We Help
Workplace Investigations
OSACO NZL provides expert assistance in conducting workplace investigations into misconduct.
Our team follows a rigorous and standardised workplace investigation methodology, with consultants who specialise in fact-finding, formal interviewing, detailed analysis and report writing. We are also experts in sexual exploitation and abuse cases, ensuring our investigations are trauma-informed and centred on the needs of survivors.
Our practices align with UN best standards to guarantee thoroughness and sensitivity in every investigation.
Workplace Investigations Training
We can provide OSACO Group’s Certified Training Programme for Misconduct Investigations (for individuals and organisations), which has become a trusted resource for the UN and INGOs.
Participant feedback reinforces the high-quality of this training and its success in supporting investigators at all levels to deliver better quality and more comprehensive investigations.
The Private Security Personnel Licensing Authority (PSPLA) recognises OSACO's certified investigation training, which, upon successful completion, can be used to demonstrate the required investigation training for obtaining a Private Investigator Licence in New Zealand.
Applicants will still have to show evidence of the PSPLA's required level of investigation experience.
General Investigator Training
Registrations are now open for our open General Investigation skills training, taking place in Christchurch this May. Over four days you will complete Levels 1–4 of OSACO's Certified Training programme, enhancing your skills and ability to conduct effective and ethical investigations.
For further detail, click here
Date: 26.05. – 29.05.2025.
Location: Christchurch
Safeguarding
‘Safeguarding’ provides organisations a framework with which to prevent, and provide protection from, sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (SEAH), and all forms of maltreatment or harm caused by an organisation.
Although ‘safeguarding’ is commonly used in relation to humanitarian and development contexts, New Zealand workplaces and organisations are not exempt from requiring protection from exploitation, abuse, harassment, intimidation and bullying.
OSACO NZL can provide advice at a strategic and policy level, review current safeguarding processes and carry out safeguarding audits to ensure your organisational interactions with all stakeholders are safe and equitable.
The OSACO Group
OSACO NZL is part of the OSACO Group, a global network of specialist consultants which is proudly New Zealand owned and operated.
OSACO are international experts in workplace investigations, training and safeguarding and have been trusted providers of these services to the UN (United Nations), INGOs (International Non-Governmental Organisations) and corporate organisations for over 10 years.
Our Values
Founded and based in New Zealand, OSACO Group is a proudly Māori-led organisation; this is reflected in our values:
- Rangatiratanga - Leadership
We maintain personal and organisational integrity. Our actions and decisions are ethical. - Tohungatanga - Expertise
We continually acquire knowledge to enhance our expertise for the benefit of those we serve. - Kotahitanga - Unity
We work collaboratively. We recognise and utilise our collective expertise to achieve our objectives and the objectives of those we serve. - Manaakitanga - Looking after people
We respect our people and those we serve.
KEY CONTACT:
Simon Scott
General Manager
Osaco New Zealand Limited
Our OSACO NZL General Manager, Simon Scott, joined OSACO Group in April 2020. With a senior policing and management background, Simon brings high-level analytical and management skills and his proven ability to conduct effective investigations to his work with OSACO clients around the globe.
New Zealand Credentials
Sustainable Business Network Impact Investor • Member of the Wanaka Business Chamber • Member of Business Canterbury
Member of Kuma (Southern Māori Business Network) • NZIBA Finalist 2023
Global Credentials
OSACO NEW ZEALAND
If you have a human risk concern, or want to avoid one, OSACO New Zealand Limited can help.
Contact us to have a confidential conversation about your needs.