Standards and Benchmarking

NZRA provides a number of standards and facilitates benchmarking services to the recreation industry, including:

Aquatic Facility Guidelines

An outline of current best practice and industry standards with templates and requirements for managers and operators of aquatic facilities. Read more... 

NZ Parks Categories & Levels of Service Publication

The parks categories and levels of service framework have been developed by NZRA, in consultation with the New Zealand parks sector, to provide a New Zealand relevant industry guideline for consistent application across the parks and open spaces sector. This is the first New Zealand, industry developed and agreed, set of parks categories. Read more...

Pool Safe

PoolSafe is a New Zealand Recreation Association and Water Safety New Zealand programme incorporating a range of initiatives aimed at reducing the number of water related injuries in and around New Zealand pools. Read more...

Pool Water Quality Standard

Standard providing guidance for pool owners and pool managers to check water quality measurements and maintain water quality, to safeguard the health of pool users. Read more...  

Sports Field Surface Guidance

For many New Zealand councils, schools and sports clubs making the decision to invest in a sports field is a complicated balancing process, with many factors to be considered.  Sport NZ engaged Opus International Consultants to develop a guidance document that will assist sports field providers with planning, constructing and maintaining their fields. Read more about the guidance document...

Strategic Plan for Community Recreation

NZRA are supporting the development of a strategy to develop community recreation in New Zealand. The Developing Community Recreation Strategy was developed with extensive consultation and engagement with the recreation industry over 2007-2008. Read more...

Yardstick

Yardstick is a benchmarking programme covering parks and leisure facilities. It was established in New Zealand in 2002 as a benchmarking tool to collect management and planning information to measure performance and drive future business improvement.

Yardstick is structured in two main activity areas: Parkcheck for parks and Leisurecheck for pools and leisure facilities. Under each of these activity areas are two benchmarking projects:

• Management Measures is the quantitative measure of how you, the managers and operators of leisure facilities are performing
• Visitor Measures is the qualitative survey measuring user satisfaction against user expectations

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