Stronger sector — built together
Every operator, school, training provider, and individual professional who contributes makes the picture sharper. Pooled, anonymised, and published as a shared resource — the result is sector-level intelligence that no single organisation could build on its own, and that comes back free to everyone who needs it.
Three areas where pooling data has the biggest impact for the sector: workforce composition, social and wellbeing outcomes, and safety incidents. Pick the one you can contribute to — every return counts.
Social Outcomes
Help measure the wellbeing and social value outdoor programmes create for participants. Each contribution adds to the evidence schools, funders, and government look to when deciding what to support.
Workforce Data
Take the short workforce survey — as an employer or as an individual. Every return makes the picture of who's in the sector, where, and what's needed sharper for training providers, employers, and policy.
Incident Reporting
Share near-misses and sub-threshold events — fully anonymised — so the whole sector can learn from what almost went wrong. Mandatory WorkSafe reporting misses the leading indicators; voluntary sharing fills that gap.
Why your contribution matters
These aren't anecdotal gaps — they're documented in government reviews, sector body reports, and official statistics. Closing them takes the whole sector showing up.
MBIE Targeted Review (2022)
"Data on serious harm other than fatalities in the sector is limited, so fatality data was adopted as the best available representation of serious harm."
Toi Mai WDC → Services Industry Skills Board
Toi Mai was disestablished 31 December 2025. The new Services Industry Skills Board (1 January 2026, established under SL 2025/290) inherits outdoor-recreation qualifications alongside tourism, hospitality, retail, business services, gambling and sport-and-recreation — but operates with a narrower mandate of standards-setting and programme endorsement, without the workforce-intelligence remit the WDCs previously held.
Stats NZ Business Demography (2025)
72,777 jobs in sport and recreation — but no dedicated outdoor recreation sub-classification exists. The sector is invisible in official data.
Sport NZ SROI Report (2023)
$20.8 billion in total social and economic value from active recreation — but no NZ outdoor education-specific social outcomes dataset exists.
How your contribution flows through
From your submission to a sector-wide benchmark — privacy-first, transparent, and shared back free to everyone.
Organisations submit
Operators, educators, and employers contribute data through simple online forms. Submissions are voluntary.
Data is anonymised
All identifying information is removed before storage. No organisation names, individual names, or data that could identify a specific incident appear in any output.
Data is aggregated
Individual submissions are combined into sector-level statistics. Minimum thresholds apply — small cell sizes are suppressed.
Sector reports published
Annual reports published on this platform. Available free to all sector bodies, operators, regulators, and government agencies.
Privacy and data protection
Full anonymisation
No operator name, individual name, or location detail that could identify a specific organisation or person appears in any published output. Reports contain aggregated sector statistics only.
Consent and purpose
Data is collected only for the purpose stated at submission — sector-level safety learning and advocacy. It is not shared with WorkSafe, insurers, or any third party in identifiable form.
NZ Privacy Act 2020 compliant
All collection, storage, and publication of data is conducted in accordance with the NZ Privacy Act 2020 Information Privacy Principles. A Privacy Impact Assessment has been conducted.
What the sector gets back
Contribution flows two ways. Here's what every part of the sector receives when the picture is complete.
Operators and educators
Benchmark your safety record and participant outcomes against sector averages. Use social outcome data to demonstrate value to funders and schools.
Recreation Aotearoa / NZOIA
Evidence-based advocacy with Treasury, MBIE, and WorkSafe. Annual sector health reports backed by real data rather than anecdote.
WorkSafe NZ
The voluntary incident module captures near-misses and contributing factors that mandatory reporting cannot see — a complementary layer of sector intelligence.
Services Industry Skills Board
Outdoor-recreation qualification setting, programme endorsement, and TEC investment advice all rely on current workforce and training-pipeline visibility — data the ISB is not resourced to produce internally.
Training providers and TEC
Workforce pipeline data showing qualification completion rates and geographic supply gaps informs training investment decisions.
Schools and funders
Social outcome evidence — using the same SWEMWBS wellbeing measurement tool used in NZ health research — supports funding applications and Ministry engagement.
MBIE and Treasury
Outdoor recreation sector workforce data aligned to Stats NZ frameworks. Social outcomes data aligned to the Treasury Living Standards Framework.
The data belongs to the sector — and so do the benefits
Operators, schools, training providers, and individual professionals can all contribute. Every return — survey, programme outcome, near-miss — feeds back into the sector picture. Pick whichever module fits the data you can share.
Sector body partnership
Recreation Aotearoa, NZOIA, ROSA, TIA, EONZ and other sector bodies are invited to co-govern this programme — contributing to methodology, validating outputs, and co-publishing annual sector reports. A formal partnership framework is being developed.