Health & Safety Refresher On-Demand
Description
This self-paced course brings you up to date with the recent reforms to New Zealand's health and safety law taking effect on 1 April 2027, while equipping business owners, managers, health and safety representatives, and workers with the practical knowledge and legal understanding needed to manage health and safety effectively in their workplace.
Across six lessons, you'll move from the legal foundations of health and safety and the duties every business holds, through hazard and risk management, hazardous substances, and incident investigation, to health and safety systems, and self-assessments.
Grounded in the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and illustrated with NZ case law and workplace scenarios across a range of sectors, the course provides a clear, practical framework for identifying and controlling the risks that matter most - keeping your people safe and your business protected.
Downloadable templates are included to support you in applying what you learn.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Recognise the recent changes to New Zealand's health and safety law and what they mean for your business.
- Explain the legal responsibilities of both employers (PCBUs) and workers under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015, and identify the codes of practice that apply to your workplace.
- Describe the duties of officers and the elements of a positive safety culture, including the roles of workers, health and safety representatives, committees, and provisional improvement notices (PINs).
- Identify workplace hazards and assess risks, and apply the hierarchy of controls and safe work practices to manage them effectively.
- Manage hazardous substances safely, and correctly interpret and apply Safety Data Sheets.
- Identify, report, record, and investigate incidents and injuries, and explain how accident and injury data and ACC support a safer workplace.
- Plan and carry out a basic self-assessment , describe how a health and safety management system drives continuous improvement.