The online Foundation Toolbox is a flexible, self-paced version of our CHASNZ/ConstructSafe-aligned course. Designed to provide essential health and safety knowledge, it supports learners preparing for work in the New Zealand construction environment — anytime, anywhere.
Why Complete the Foundation Toolbox?
This course helps construction businesses and workers meet the recommended Site Access Requirements Guidelines, which outline how to manage site access and ensure all workers possess a foundational level of health and safety knowledge.
Workers who are new to the New Zealand construction sector or who haven’t received structured training are strongly advised to complete a recognised foundation course. Site managers and employers are expected to confirm that workers have received appropriate training.
The Foundation Toolbox course is one of the endorsed options for meeting this requirement.
Site_Access_Requirements_A4_V2.0.pdf
What You’ll Learn:
Key concepts in health and safety foundations (Parts 1 & 2)
Safe practices for working at height, mobile plant, site traffic, and utilities
Managing chemicals and hazardous substances
Emergency procedures and response
Confined and restricted space awareness
Engaging videos, knowledge checkpoints, and interactive exercises guided by ‘Rawhiti’
Course Delivery:
Format: 100% online through Besafe’s eLearning platform
Duration: Approx. 4 hours (self-paced – complete in your own time)
Requirements: Access to a device with internet; learning can be paused and resumed at your convenience
Considering online training but still not sure that it will work for you?
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Manual handling means transporting or supporting a load by hand or bodily force. It includes lifting, putting down, pushing, pulling, carrying or moving loads.
This course on manual handling will help employees, contractors to practice safe manual handling in the workplace. It covers how to assess the risks associated with manual handling tasks, perform the tasks to avoid injury, and report manual handling risks as they are encountered.
Target Audience:
This manual handling training course is suitable for all employees, contractors and at the end of the course, learners do a short assessment to check their understanding, and to confirm their responsibility to promote health and safety in the workplace.
Topics covered:
The following topics are covered in this manual handling training course:
In-Person or Online: This engaging and practical course equips learners with the skills to identify, assess, and manage health and safety risks in the workplace. Whether completed online at your own pace or in-person with a Besafe tutor, this course provides real-world tools to help you keep your site and team safe. Aligned with NZQA Unit Standard 30265, it is ideal for anyone responsible for managing risks in their role.
Why Complete This Course?
New Zealand has one of the highest rates of workplace injury and illness in the developed world. Effective risk management is essential—not only to meet legal obligations but to prevent harm. This course helps you build confidence in taking practical, proactive steps to identify hazards, implement appropriate controls, and monitor workplace safety without unnecessary complexity.
What You’ll Learn:
Roles, rights, and responsibilities related to workplace risk
How to identify hazards and assess risk
Applying the Plan–Do–Check–Act risk management model
Selecting and applying effective control measures
Monitoring and reviewing existing controls
Carrying out a practical risk assessment relevant to your work
Course Delivery Options:
In-Person: 1-day course delivered at a Besafe training centre or on-site (includes theory + practical assessment)
Online: Self-paced digital course via Besafe’s eLearning platform (interactive content, tutor support, and online assessment)
Assessment: Required for both formats and includes written and applied task-based components
The Foundation Toolbox is a CHASNZ/ConstructSafe-aligned in-person course of nine interactive modules. It’s designed to introduce new and experienced site workers to essential health and safety principles in the New Zealand construction environment.
Why Complete the Foundation Toolbox?
This course helps construction businesses and workers meet the recommended Site Access Requirements Guidelines, which outline how to manage site access and ensure all workers possess a foundational level of health and safety knowledge.
Workers who are new to the New Zealand construction sector or who haven’t received structured training are strongly advised to complete a recognised foundation course. Site managers and employers are expected to confirm that workers have received appropriate training.
The Foundation Toolbox course is one of the endorsed options for meeting this requirement.
Site_Access_Requirements_A4_V2.0.pdf
What You’ll Learn:
Fundamentals of general health and safety (Parts 1 & 2)
Safe work practices for working at height, mobile plant, site traffic, and utilities
Managing chemicals and hazardous substances
Emergency preparedness and response
Confined and restricted space awareness
Includes interactive exercises and knowledge checkpoints supported by ‘Rawhiti’
Course Delivery:
Format: In-person classroom session
The Tier 1 Foundation Health & Safety Construct Safe assessment is delivered as an online test and consists of 50 questions that relate to basic health and safety and is designed for everyone working on a construction site.
Questions are either ‘multi-choice’ or ‘point and click’ and have audio to eliminate language barriers.
Assessments are conducted in accredited test centres by accredited testing supervisors.
This is not just another safety course! To change the safety performance across the sector we need highly capable leaders delivering great work outcomes and, as a result, great safety outcomes each and every day.
LeadSafe Supervisors takes participants on a learning journey that looks at safety differently – safety is not a “tick the box” exercise. We are challenging participants to shift your thinking from policy and compliance to effectively leading a culture of safety on site.
This means “walking the talk”, taking ownership and commitment to the next level to proactively lead safe on site – everyday.
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Safety leadership is about “what goes on when no one is watching”. The aim of this programme is to enable leaders to embrace a safety culture and what they do on site everyday to get great work outcomes and take the lead to ensure everyone on site is safe.
The two days gives supervisors skills to set the tone as a leader and to:
An assessment aligned to the industry H&S standard for coal face leaders (e.g.leading hands, foremen). Specifically aimed at site based leaders of small teams of construction workers.
CHASNZ require workers attempting this level of assessment to have undertaken training in line with the LeadSafe Supervisors 2 day course or others as per 1.2 of the Constructsafe Health and Safety Competency – Supervisors Framework
If you do not hold the required training, find out more about the Leadsafe Supervisors course
The Besafe Site Passport is available online or delivered in the classroom by one of our experienced tutors. After this course you will be able to keep yourself and others safe by; implementing and understanding how to manage hazards and risks, knowing your legal health and safety requirements and being a critical thinker around Health and Safety.
This course has been developed with all workers in mind. You will work through the course at your own pace and complete the ‘open book’ NZQA unit standard assessment. You will need to allow up to 24 hours for your assessment to be marked by one of our assessors at which point you will be issued your certificate if successful.
Legal rights and responsibilities for workplace health and safety
Hazards/risks
Health and Safety Systems
Manage risks to maintain a safe site!
New Zealand has a high rate of workplace illnesses, injuries and fatalities. We’re focused on teaching and supporting excellent workplace health and safety standards and attitudes.
Managing risks at work doesn’t need to be a burden, complex or costly to implement or document. But you must take positive action to make a situation safer, and apply the most appropriate and reasonable control measure.
The BeSafe Guarantee for online courses
We are so confident that you will be satisfied with your online BeSafe course that we will happily refund 100% of the course fee if you are not satisfied. See T’s & C’s
The Besafe Site Passport Risk Management is available online or delivered in the classroom by one of our experienced tutors. The course includes the Passport Essentials with an additional focus on risk management. After this course you will be able to keep yourself and others safe by; implementing and understanding how to manage hazards and risks, knowing your legal health and safety requirements and being a critical thinker around health and safety.
Considering online training but still not sure that it will work for you?
The BeSafe Guarantee for online courses
We are so confident that you will be satisfied with your online BeSafe course that we will happily refund 100% of the course fee if you are not satisfied. See T’s & C’s
The purpose of this course is for health and safety representatives to explain and demonstrate the overall role and functions of a Health and Safety Representative in a New Zealand workplace.
The health and safety representative course is available online or delivered by one of our industry expert tutors. Our online course is comprehensive with interactive content throughout, we have an assessor on stand-by (during office hours) for any support as you work through the course.
Representatives awarded with this standard will be able to:
Considering online training but still not sure that it will work for you?
The BeSafe Guarantee for online courses
We are so confident that you will be satisfied with your online BeSafe course that we will happily refund 100% of the course fee if you are not satisfied. See T’s & C’s
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