About Our Team
Provention has been working with New Zealand and Australian businesses for over 15 years; having helped hundreds of businesses reduce their injury-related costs and thousands of individuals improve their quality of life.
We promise to improve people’s lives by educating them on new techniques and creating new habits to keep them safe at work and at home.
The best way to describe what we do is to compare it to athletes: To get better at their chosen sport, the athlete works on their physical performance to get more efficient, more effective and avoid injury. This is the same as a workplace.
Our passion is assisting organisations with a sustainable, effective, engaging and interactive manual handling programme that lives and breathes in their business and its people. It’s training for real people that works.
We practically share our knowledge and education to help people understand.
We strive to improve, always challenging the ‘norm’ with continuous improvement.
We are curious about people and their behaviour; we will always be learning to understand the neuroscience of habit change and the psychology of people.
We give people the tools to create new habits and follow up to ensure correct techniques are embedded.
The founder of Provention, Alison Richmond, qualified as a physiotherapist and has spent 20 years studying physically intelligent individuals and habit change. Knowledge gained has enabled her to create highly successful programmes for reducing strain injuries in the workplace and elsewhere - by teaching people safe movement principles.
Alison is passionate about providing companies with practical, engaging, and effective solutions that fit seamlessly into an organisation's procedures and create lasting results for individuals.
We are nation-wide
We believe being physically intelligent is not just important for the workplace but essential for everything in life - now and in the future. Being physically intelligent means a better quality of life.
Provention recognises the need for workplace injury prevention and manual handling training programmes based on sound physical learning principles. Through our First Move programmes, we provide programmes in New Zealand and Australia to ensure your team practise safe working habits.
Every member of the Provention team is a qualified health professional with extensive industry experience. They are not just Trainers – they all have years of experience and extensive knowledge of the body’s workings. They work in the real world every day to make workplaces safer.
Our clients include businesses from many industries: Fulton Hogan, Downer, Foodstuffs, Inghams, Silver Fern Farms, NZ Safety Blackwoods, Watercare, Mainland Power, Farmers, Hamilton City Council, Pernod Ricard, New Zealand Blood, and many more.
Get started with us
Our engagement process ensures that we understand your organisation’s needs and can work with you to embed the appropriate programmes.
Contact us via our contact page or at +64 (0)27 495 0045.
We will arrange a no-obligations call or visit to understand your organisation’s needs.
You will receive a proposal and ongoing plan to address your organisation’s needs.
We’ll work with your organisation’s key stakeholders to roll out the appropriate programme to improve your employee’s well-being and reduce strain/sprain injuries.
Meet the Team
“I got told today by our workshop manager that we have changed his life! He has been trying all sorts of tasks and found that he can really tell the difference now in what he is doing. This has even applied to the voluntary work he does marking out an athletic track!”
We are not affiliated with Move 4 Life
