OSACO GROUP
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
OSACO Group is a proudly owned and operated New Zealand company.
Our Aotearoa New Zealand-based team brings expertise in law, investigation, training and international investigations built over decades of international, in-the-field experience. Together we help create safer, more secure and compliant workplace environments.
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
We provide 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
OSACO Group’s Certified Training Programme for Misconduct Investigations (for individuals and organisations) has become a trusted resource for the international companies, humanitarian organisations 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
OSACO now offer open General Investigation skills training events.
To register your interest, and for further detail click here
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, organisations, education and sporting environments are not exempt from requiring protection from exploitation, abuse, harassment, intimidation and bullying.
OSACO 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.
DE-ESCALATION AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
De-escalation training empowers your staff to deal with difficult, abusive or non-compliant people in the workplace by providing them with key skills to keep themselves, and others, safe.
We'll cover communication (aligned to your organisational values); the art of keeping calm amidst chaos; an introduction to creating safer environments; and ways to encourage positive engagement.
If you want to improve your ability to respond safely, ethically and professionally when faced with difficult people, we can help you.
The OSACO Group
The OSACO Group is 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.
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.