Our team of highly skilled occupational hygienists and hazardous materials and asbestos consultants design, implement, and manage site-specific occupational hygiene and asbestos services - tailored for your organisation.
Our team works with clients to improve employee comfort, wellbeing, and productivity, and meet their health and safety obligations. We’re focused on practical ways to protect and promote the health of your greatest asset – your people.
We are one of Australasia’s largest providers of occupational hygiene and hazardous materials consulting services. Our team have extensive experience across a range of industries and projects. We are members of New Zealand’s Occupational Hygiene Society and senior team members hold the internationally recognised Certified Occupational Hygienist qualification.
Our specialist areas include:
- Monitoring for chemical stressors, including particulate/dust, respirable crystalline silica (RCS), diesel particulate matter (DPM), metals, fumes, gases, PAHs, VOCs, and lead.
- Monitoring for physical stressors such as noise, vibration, temperature, and illumination.
- Assessment of indoor air quality (IAQ), including ventilation and mould/bacteria hazards.
- Hazardous materials (including asbestos and lead-based paint) surveys, control and post removal assessments/clearance inspections, asbestos management plans, and risk assessments.
- Project management and site supervision of hazardous materials removal (including asbestos).
- Occupational hygiene assessments/workplace exposure risk assessments and surveys.
- Design, implement, and manage site specific occupational hygiene services tailored for the client and based on site-specific risks, including workplace exposure monitoring and management plans.
- Hazardous substance audits, technical review, and advice.
- Human health risk assessments and toxicology advice.
Aviation
WSP provides integrated environmental and occupational hygiene services for airports, airlines and aviation maintenance facilities across New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific. Our multidisciplinary team supports clients throughout the asset lifecycle, from strategic planning and environmental management through to operational monitoring, compliance, incident response and remediation.
Environmental risk and compliance
We help airports, airlines, and aviation asset owners turn environmental compliance into a strategic advantage. Our services include compliance audits, contaminated land risk registers, gap analyses, ISO 14001-certified management systems, and real-time compliance dashboards. This provides the visibility and assurance needed to manage risk proactively. Our solutions help clients strengthen governance, reduce regulatory exposure, improve operational performance, and make confident, data-driven decisions.
Occupational hygiene and worker health
Aviation environments present a unique combination of occupational health risks, including aircraft noise, jet exhaust, fuels, solvents, hazardous chemicals, airborne dust, vibration and radiation exposure. WSP's occupational hygiene specialists help aviation clients understand, measure, and manage these risks through targeted monitoring, exposure assessments, and practical risk mitigation strategies. By transforming complex exposure data into actionable insights, we help protect employee health and give business leaders the evidence needed to prioritise investment, demonstrate due diligence, engage constructively with workforce representatives, and build safer, healthier, and more resilient operations.
Contaminated land
PFAS and other contamination risks can significantly impact project costs, approvals, and construction schedules across aviation assets. WSP helps clients reduce uncertainty and avoid costly delays through targeted site investigations, groundwater assessments, plume delineation, remediation design, and bespoke PFAS treatment solutions. Combining global aviation experience with local expertise, we provide the technical insight and practical strategies needed to de-risk developments, accelerate decision-making, and protect project value.
Identify and assess risks
Airports are complex ecosystems where environmental, occupational, and operational risks are closely connected. By understanding your assets, people, and stakeholders, WSP helps identify risks early, use data-driven insights to prioritise action, and deliver practical solutions that protect people, strengthen compliance, and improve business performance.
Compliance support
We deliver practical, risk-based, prioritised solutions that help manage environmental and occupational health risks, maintain regulatory compliance and support business continuity within complex operational environments.
Deliver monitoring, response and remediation
We turn environmental data into actionable insight by combining monitoring data, compliance trends, and operational intelligence, to identify root causes, not just symptoms. Our focus on learning from incidents and implementing practical solutions that strengthen compliance, reduce risk, and build more resilient airport operations.
