Minimising Gambling Harm
Our Choice Not Chance campaign aims to increase awareness of the early signs of harmful gambling and encourage people to seek help and take positive action early, both for themselves and for others they care about. Choice Not Chance encourages people to choose to do something about harmful gambling rather than leaving it to chance.
Te Hiringa Hauora promotes these messages at a national level and works with various services around the country to promote these at a local level.
For more information about what we do, please see: hpa.org.nz/programme/minimising-gambling-harm
Choice Not Chance brochure - Chinese
Choice Not Chance brochure - Chinese English
Choice Not Chance brochure - English
Choice Not Chance brochure - Māori
Choice Not Chance brochure - Samoan
Choice Not Chance brochure - Tongan
Choice Not Chance Wallet Leaflet
Commitment to Care poster (A3 Size)
This poster summarises what your venue is working to achieve and reminds staff about your Gambling Harm Minimisation policy. Display this poster where venue staff and customers will regularly see it (for example in the staff room, the harm minimisation folder, by the bar and in the gaming room).
Size: A4
Commitment to Care poster (A4 Size)
This poster summarises what your venue is working to achieve and reminds staff about your Gambling Harm Minimisation policy. Display this poster where venue staff and customers will regularly see it (for example in the staff room, the harm minimisation folder, by the bar and in the gaming room).
Size: A4
Everyday Tips for Gambling Hosts - A4 Laminated Card
Place these in high visibility areas for staff along with the A4 Gambling Harm Reference Card. Copies could be attached on a wall behind the bar, beside the till, in the staff room or on a staff noticeboard.
Full Gamble Host resource pack
The information and resources in this pack have been designed to support class 4 venues and staff working in them, to fulfill their host responsibility requirements under the Gambling Act. The pack has been developed with the support of gaming societies and venues, and in partnership with the Department of Internal affairs and the Ministry of Health.
The pack contains the following:
Information for Customers
- 200 harm minimisation wallet leaflets
- 2 perspex and 2 cardboard leaflet holders
- 2 legal signs
- 2 legal posters
- 2 Commitment to Care posters
- Harm minimisation posters – 2 of each design
Support for Staff
- 2 Everyday Tips for Gambling Hosts
- Set of Gambling Host Reference Cards
- 4 Gambling Host Responsibility Guides for Venue Staff
- 1 Tips for Venue Management
- 1 Harm Minimisation Policy Template
- 1 Harm Minimisation Action Plan
- 2 Gambling Harm logbook template
- 4 Gamble Host Responsibility Staff Resource Packs
Full Gamble Host Training Pack - White Folder
Gamble Harm Reference Card - Folded Postcard Size
Give postcards to each staff member.
Gambling Harm Logbook Template
This template has been developed for those venues that don’t already have an existing daily log for recording incidences and observations of gambling harm.
If you do not already have a logbook/incident register, we recommend printing this out and placing it in a location staff can easily refer to on a daily basis. This may be located with your cancel credit/hopper refill sheets. Note – you must ensure that customers cannot read it.
Orientation: Portrait
Gambling Harm Logbook Template - Landscape
This template has been developed for those venues that don’t already have an existing daily log for recording incidences and observations of gambling harm.
If you do not already have a logbook/incident register, we recommend printing this out and placing it in a location staff can easily refer to on a daily basis. This may be located with your cancel credit/hopper refill sheets. Note – you must ensure that customers cannot read it.
Orientation: Landscape
Gambling Harm Minimisation Policy Action Plan
Gambling Harm Minimisation Policy Template
Gambling Harm Reference (General Harms) - A5 Sticker
Gambling Harm Reference (Strong Signs) - A5 Sticker
Put the stickers in the front of your gambling log book/incident register.
Gambling Harm Reference Card - A4 Laminated Card
Put A4 cards in high visibility areas for staff – attached on a wall behind the bar, beside the till, in a staff area. Put a copy in your gaming manual.
Give postcards to each staff member.
Put the stickers in the front of your gambling log book/incident register.
Harm Minimisation Poster - V1 (A3 size)
Place at least one of these posters up in your gaming area. It is recommended that you also place one in the bathroom, beside an ATM machine and/or near an outside smoking area.
Harm Minimisation Poster - V1 (A4 size)
Place at least one of these posters up in your gaming area. It is recommended that you also place one in the bathroom, beside an ATM machine and/or near an outside smoking area.
Harm Minimisation Poster - V2 (A3 size)
Place at least one of these posters up in your gaming area. It is recommended that you also place one in the bathroom, beside an ATM machine and/or near an outside smoking area.
Harm Minimisation Poster - V2 (A4 size)
Place at least one of these posters up in your gaming area. It is recommended that you also place one in the bathroom, beside an ATM machine and/or near an outside smoking area.
Introduction to the Gamble Host Resources
Legal poster (A3 size)
Place at least one of these posters up in the gambling area so that it is clearly visible to all players. You may like to place the second copy in the bathroom, beside an ATM machine or near an outside smoking area.
Legal poster (A4 size)
Place at least one of these posters up in the gambling area so that it is clearly visible to all players. You may like to place the second copy in the bathroom, beside an ATM machine or near an outside smoking area.
Legal sign (A4 size)
Put one sign up beside the bar (with your existing alcohol signage). You may like to place the other in the entrance to the gambling area.
Play Your Best Card - take home pamphlet (bundle of 30)
These pamphlets help are given to young people to encourage them to reflect on their conversations after playing Play Your Best Card, a team-based game that encourages teens to have conversations on a range of topics relevant to young people.
Play Your Best Card – game
Play Your Best Card is a team-based game that encourages teens to have conversations on a range of topics relevant to young people. It also encourages them to discuss challenges and what to do in a range of different situations.
The game is key to raising awareness of youth organisations that you can contact when you need help. It aims to inspire teens’ critical thinking and encourage them to have conversations about issues that they are going on for them right now, or that they might encounter in the future.
For more details, visit www.hpa.org.nz/education/play-your-best-card.
Staff Training Envelope
Tips for Venue Management
Training Certificate of Completion
These certificates are for Societies or Management Companies to provide to staff that completes the Gamble Host Training.
- Pack of 25
Verbal prompt cards
Wallet leaflet (pack of 25)
Place in the gambling area for gamblers to pick up or beside the bar – so that staff can hand a copy to gamblers who show signs of harmful gambling. Venues have also reported that leaflets kept in the bathroom (a decreet location) are most likely to be used be patrons.
Wallet leaflet holder - cardboard (for counter display)
Wallet leaflet holder - perspex (for wall mounting)
Venues have also reported that leaflets kept in the bathroom (a decreet location) are most likely to be used be patrons.