Health and Safety Learning Courses
Explore our 2024 Health and Safety courses below or browse our other specialist Learning portfolios: Business Growth, Employment Relations, Leadership and Management, People Experience, and Workplace Wellbeing. You can also find our Health and Safety eLearning courses here and start building your skills profile to personalise and advance your learning journey.
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NZ Diploma in Workplace Health and Safety Management (Level 6)
This NZQA approved Level 6 Diploma programme is the qualification of choice for leading workplace health and safety leaders and professionals. Gain professional accreditation with NZISM and apply for the HASANZ register..
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NZ Certificate in Workplace Health and Safety Practice (Level 4)
This NZQA approved programme is ideal for those in supervisory or first line management roles, such as health and safety advisors, supervisors, team leaders, managers and advanced health and safety representatives.
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EMA Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety (Level 3)
This is the ideal foundation on which to build your health and safety career. Whether you are a workplace health and safety advisor, supervisor, team leader or health and safety representative and others with a vested interest in workplace health and safety, this course will enable you to be an effective contributor to workplace health and safety systems and culture..
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Applying the Due Diligence Duty
This half-day workshop will provide you with the foundation knowledge needed for evaluating the safety performance of your organisation to meet the due diligence requirements of the Health and Safety at Work (HSW) Act. It can be delivered Face to face (in class) or online.
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Managing Critical Risks
Risk management is the cornerstone of health and safety best practice. On this course, you’ll discover how to assess critical risks and apply risk management techniques that are relevant to your business. This will ensure effective engagement with internal and external stakeholders, from company directors, officers and managers to supervisors, workers, contractors.
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Managing Machinery Risk
Know the range and scale of risks associated with machinery and how to minimise them. This two-day course is a must for any business where plant and machinery are in operation, and anyone wanting to understand how to comply with WorkSafe NZ’s Safe Use of Machinery Harm Reduction Programme.
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Health and Safety Representative Stage 1 (Essential Training)
Become an effective workplace health and safety representative. This is essential training for any health and safety representative, and extremely valuable for any health and safety committee member, or any worker or officer wishing to better comprehend the Health and Safety at Work (HSW) Act and associated regulations, or those who require a refresher of the HSW Act. This course leads to the Certificate in Health and Safety Representation (Training Scheme) (Level 3).
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Health and Safety Representative Stage 2 (Advanced Training)
Take your skills as a health and safety representative to the next level. This course is purpose-designed for health and safety representatives who have completed Stage 1 training. It is also suitable for anyone with an interest in, or responsibility for workplace health and safety.
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Health and Safety from a Management Perspective
Know and understand your obligations under the Health and Safety at Work (HSW) Act and why a positive health and safety culture is important to your organisation. Understand the context of risk management as an essential part of health and safety in the workplace.
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Managing Contractor Health and Safety
Understand pre-qualification and the PCBU’s responsibilities in a contract or supply chain. If you engage contractors or subcontractors whose work activities are influenced or directed by the PCBU, this course should be viewed as essential. It’s suitable for all managers, supervisors, health and safety representatives and workers involved in contractor engagement, pre-qualifications etc.
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Effective Workplace Health and Safety Systems
Gain the knowledge and tools you need to create and manage an effective Health and Safety Management System This one-day course is suitable for all types of business, from offices to heavy industry. It’s of great value to all managers, supervisors, health and safety representatives and workers involved in health and safety systems and management. It has been proven to be an effective, helpful tool in the undertaking of a WorkSafe duty-holder review.
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Heath, Safety and Wellbeing Committee Essentials
This course is relevant for anyone appointed to or dealing with a workplace Health and Safety committee: new or existing members, a subject matter expert, someone co-opted onto the committee on an ad-hoc basis, or a manager/officer responsible for overseeing and implementing the committee’s recommendations.
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Effective Health and Safety Incident and Investigation Methods
A must for all your staff involved in the accident/incident investigation process. This valuable course is suitable for all types of businesses and accident/incident investigations.
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ICAM Investigation
Become a proficient investigator of events and near misses using ICAM methodology. A must for all your staff involved in the accident investigation process. This two-day course is aimed at those who will be conducting investigations into significant events and near misses.
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Authentic Leadership for Health and Safety Professionals
If you are in a leadership role and want to enable an environment where others can reach their potential alongside you, this is the course for you. Leadership has changed. It is no longer enough to simply set sail and expect others to follow. Followership remains necessary to ensure the sails are full and trimmed, but is no longer a given.
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Influencing Skills for Health and Safety Professionals
If you need to be more effective in getting buy-in for initiatives that you know will create better health and safety outcomes for everyone, this is the course for you.
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Creativity, Problem-Solving and Critical Thinking
If you need to be more effective in finding out-of-the-box solutions to recurrent health and safety problems, this challenging course is just for you. Creativity, problem-solving and critical thinking are what keeps businesses thriving and people safe in our current COVID-disrupted economy. These are thinking skills that provide a defence against stagnation in which new ideas and more efficient ways of working are not encouraged.
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Change Management for Health and Safety Professionals
If you are required to design, develop and implement an internal workplace health, safety and wellbeing change management process, this course will provide you with the essential skills. Whether it be due to economic, societal, technological, environmental, or legal concerns, one of the few constants in business is change. Health and safety leaders need to be able recognise when change is imperative and manage the change process to achieve universal buy-in and minimise disruption.
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Due Diligence for Officers
Business owners, directors, employers, managers and those in the human resources or health and safety sectors will find value in the need to understand and influence a business strategic and business planning process.
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Change Management for Health and Safety Professionals (Webinar)
If you are required to design, develop and implement an internal workplace health, safety and wellbeing change management process, this course will provide you with the essential skills. Whether it be due to economic, societal, technological, environmental, or legal concerns, one of the few constants in business is change. Health and safety leaders need to be able recognise when change is imperative and manage the change process to achieve universal buy-in and minimise disruption.
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Health & Safety for Managers & Supervisors Webinar
Better understand the New Zealand legislative framework, how to set-up and maintain practical, effective workplace health and safety systems, and encourage employee involvement in health and safety.
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Health & Safety for Employees Webinar
A safe working environment needs proactive involvement from everyone in the workplace, not just employers and managers. Employees have a significant role to play, and this session will help them better understand their roles, responsibilities and opportunities.
