Aviation Services

Key partners for delivery of aerial toxin operations, providing accurate and consistent placement of bait and logistical support for Sawland personnel undertaking ancillary tasking in remote areas.  Their professionalism and safety record aligns with our own high standards.

The aviation subcontractors we choose to work with are among the most experienced in New Zealand and their pilot workforce collectively has thousands of hours' experience in aerial bait application.

Road Transport

Providing the logistical support necessary to get materials to our worksites.

Our transport subcontractors have proven staff and dependable fleets that routinely perform miracles to ensure the safe and timely delivery of equipment and materials to project sites,  often necessitating significant off-highway travel in challenging terrain.

Site Security

Providing essential security services for our operational sites, particularly those involving toxins or public access.

Security operatives play an important role to deter and interdict unauthorised access to high-hazard areas where aircraft and machinery are operating, ensuring the safety of Sawland and subcontractor personnel, as well as the public while site work takes place.

Traffic Management

Toxin application routinely takes in or occurs in close proximity to public roads, or otherwise necessitates the transport of materials and movement of subcontractor resources along roading assets where ensuring the safety of our personnel and the public is paramount.  This is where our STMS qualified traffic management subcontractors play a critical role.

Ancillary Services

Sawland personnel have longstanding relationships with a large number of experienced field operatives able to undertake ancillary tasking for aerial operations, including landowner consultation, sign installation, sign maintenance, facility closures and clearance of toxic bait from affected facilities, ensuring thorough and efficient operational delivery.

WorkSafe New Zealand

WorkSafe New Zealand is New Zealand's primary workplace health and safety regulator.  Its regulatory framework is directly relevant to Sawland's management of worker health and safety, hazardous substances, plant and equipment, remote work and other operational risks.

Environmental Protection Authority (EPA)

The Environmental Protection Authority has regulatory responsibilities relating to hazardous substances and environmental protection.  EPA requirements are relevant to Sawland's work involving vertebrate toxic agents and other hazardous substances used or encountered during pest management operations.

Department of Conservation (DOC)

The Department of Conservation has multiple roles relevant to Sawland's work, including as a major client for landscape-scale pest management services, administrator of Public Conservation Land and, where applicable, a permission authority for operations undertaken on land it administers.

Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI)

The Ministry for Primary Industries leads New Zealand's biosecurity system and administers legislation and programmes relevant to pest management and agricultural activities.  Its regulatory and policy functions may apply to Sawland projects depending on the nature of the work undertaken.

Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)

The Civil Aviation Authority regulates civil aviation in New Zealand. For Sawland's aerial operations, aviation regulatory requirements are principally managed by the certificated aviation operators engaged to provide aircraft and aviation services, with Sawland coordinating the relevant interfaces with overall project delivery.

Local Government

Regional, unitary and territorial authorities administer local and regional requirements that may apply to Sawland's operations, including environmental, land-use and pest-management requirements.  Applicable council requirements and notifications are identified through project planning and permission processes.