Workplace Health & Safety Training

Up-skill and get a better understanding of Health and Safety

Depending on the level of experience, we have both one and two day options -January discounts continue

Basic Workplace Health and Safety Course: from $280 + GST January discount from $310 + GST

Comprehensive Workplace H&S and Risk Assessment Course: $450 + GST (two day) January discount from $550 + GST

Using our industrial backgrounds in contracting on “serious hazard facilities”, our health and safety courses draw directly from real‑world experience managing high‑risk working environments. Courses are delivered by current industry practitioners who teach practical, field‑tested methods and decision-making approaches.

Training focuses on understanding and applying active versus passive controls so trainees can select the most appropriate measures for each task. We cover:

  • Practical risk assessment techniques tailored specifically to the clients needs / requirements, or using examples from our backgrounds to assist in understanding.

  • When to apply passive controls (Engineering Barriers / Guarding, Permanent Guard-Rails, Safety Nets, Ventilation Design, Interlocks, Light Curtains etc etc) for inherent risk reduction

  • When active controls (Procedures, Permit-to-Work, PPE, Rescue Teams / ERT, Supervision) are necessary to manage residual hazards

  • How to layer controls effectively combining passive and active measures for robust risk mitigation

  • Realistic scenario‑based exercises that reinforce correct control selection, emergency response, and rescue planning

Participants leave with clear, actionable knowledge: how to evaluate a work task, choose the best mix of controls, and implement systems that improve safety and operational efficiency on site.

Our prices include applying the NZQA unit standards to the learners Record of Learning

Course Details

Basic Workplace Health and Safety Course:

This one-day course -on your site or ours, using your procedures, or using the generic H&S procedures that are standard on a wide range of industrial sites. Including NZQA Unit Standards:

  • 497 – Demonstrate knowledge of workplace health and safety requirements

  • 17593 - Apply safe work practices in the workplace

Our basic Workplace H&S course covers:

  • Legislative Rights and Responsibilities for Workplace H&S

  • Systems Approch to Workplace H&S

  • How Hazards and Risks are Defined in the H&S at Work Act

  • Principles of Workplace H&S

  • Demonstration of Safe Work Practices

Comprehensive Workplace Health & Safety Course

This two-day course covers the above, and then extends onto the development of Risk Assessments in the Workplace. This again, can be run on your site or ours, using your procedures where possible. Including NZQA Unit Standards:

  • 497 – Demonstrate knowledge of workplace health and safety requirements

  • 17593 - Apply safe work practices in the workplace

  • 30265 - Apply health and safety risk assessment to a job role

The addition of this unit standard usually adds an extra day to the training. If you have previous experence in risk assessment and regularly complete this type of documentation, then you may only require one-day to compelte this comprehensive course.

Risk Assessment training is now becoming a common request for many clients, as more and more sites are asking for workers to be competent in completing a JSA (Job Safety Analysis), or SSSP (Site Specific Safety Plan) (or similar risk assessment documents) before entering their site.

These training courses are provided through a contracting arrangement between the primary contract holder, Pacific Coast Technical Institute (PCTI), and it’s sub-contractor, Elite Training Services Limited.