Safety Tips
Safety Videos
- Protecting your stuff - tips to help prevent burglary.
- Protecting your vehicle
- PDF version [2.4MB]
- HTML version
- Tips for visitors to New Zealand
- Keeping safe at home
- Keeping safe on the internet
- Keeping safe in the car
- Keeping safe at work
- Keeping safe in public places
- Keeping safe out on the boat
- Keeping safe out in the country - rural safety
- Neighbourhood Support Fact Sheets
Tips for visitors - Keeping safe in New Zealand
- Keeping Safe on New Zealand Roads
- Keeping Yourself Safe
- Keeping Safe Outdoors
- Keeping Your Possessions Safe
Keeping safe at home
- How to deal with family violence
- How to serve a Trespass Notice
- How to protect children from paedophiles
- Methamphetamine and other drugs
- How to identify a clan lab
- Reduce the burglar's opportunities
- Who burgles a house and why
- Avoid burglaries [PDF leaflet]
- Home burglar alarms
- Recording serial numbers
- Malicious telephone calls [Links to www.Telecom.co.nz]
See also: Neighbourhood Support
Keeping safe on the Internet
- Email hoaxes and scams
- Netsafe internet safety for kids, parents and schools. Provides advice and safety tips for using social media websites like Facebook and YouTube - with advice on how to deal with text bullying and cyber bullying.
- Child Safety Online [Department of Internal Affairs]
- Spam, scams, frauds and phishing
- Keystroke logging spyware
- Prevent identity crime
Keeping safe in the car
- Motor vehicle crime
- Protecting your vehicle
- Driver licensing
- Land Transport Safety Authority have safety information for all road users [www.ltsa.govt.nz]
- Speed, alcohol and seat belts.
Keeping safe at work
- How to prevent business crime
- Dealing with suspicious postal mail
- Child labour convention
Keeping safe in public places
- Reducing the risk of handbag and briefcase theft
- Safety with drinks
- SAFE (7233) - free txt intentions service
Keeping safe out on the boat
- Boat purchasing advice
- Preparing a marine disaster plan
- Marine disaster plan template
Keeping safe out in the country - rural safety
Neighbourhood Support fact sheets
Neighbourhood Support have a number of fact sheets available with tips on how to keep safe in:
The home and neighbourhood:
- Buying secondhand goods
- Serial number recording
- Consumer Guarantees Act
- Fences and neighbours
- Neighbours and trees
- Noise and nuisance
- Dog control
- "Citizen's arrest" and self defence
Vehicles:
- Explaining speed enforcement
- Drink driving
- Illegal parking and car towing
- Checking if a vehicle is stolen
- Reporting bad driving
- Holiday driving tips
General:
- Giving a good description
- Holiday security tips
- Cheque fraud
- Credit and EFTPOS card fraud
- Identity theft
- Shoplifting: trespass, kids & human rights
- Armed robbery
- Domestic Violence Act - Protection Orders
Neighbourhood Support also have information about:
Law and the older person:
See the Neighbourhood Support website (www.ns.org.nz) for even more information on how to make our homes, streets, neighbourhoods and communities safer and more caring places in which to live.
