Course Category: Leadership

This course will develop your knowledge of occupational health and safety statutory obligations, roles, and responsibilities so you can lead and implement high standards of health and safety management system. The course will also develop your ability to identify hazards and controls for the workplace environment.

You will explore theories of incident causation and prevention and gain the knowledge and skills to communicate and apply safe work strategies.

Delivered to Unit Standards 5607 – over a 1 day workshop (*Optional assessment and submission of evidence is required to achieve Unit Standard)

Topics

✓ Legislative requirements including but not limited to Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSW Act), Human Rights Act 1993, privacy Act 1993
✓ Occupational health and safety responsibilities
✓ Occupational health and safety statutory obligations
✓ Hazards in the workplace
✓ Health and safety training plans
✓ Evaluation of health and safety activities
✓ Health and safety incident investigation
✓ Theories of incident causation and prevention

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Communicate job specific health and safety requirements and practices in accordance with legislative requirements, industry specific codes of practice, and standards to a team in a specific business operation.
• Lead consultative and participation processes that involve workers in the development of job specific health and safety policies and procedures for a team in a specific business operation.
• Supervise the implementation of and monitor the maintenance of organisational and job specific health and safety policies and procedures for a team in a specific business operation.
• Apply knowledge of incident causation models to investigate an incident and prepare a report that complies with organisational and legislative requirements and make recommendations to improve workplace incident investigation methods where appropriate.
• Describe and apply health and safety requirements for the various jobs and teams in their workplace, in accordance with the requirements of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.
• Identify relevant health and safety risks and apply practicable controls.
• Promote beneficial health and safety practices for a specific team, with measurable results, in accordance with organisational requirements.
• Create and apply a health and safety plan for a team to meet the organisations operational requirements.
• Identify and coordinate health and safety requirements, in accordance with the requirements of the Health and Safety at Work Act, and the organisational requirements

Workplace accidents and incidents don’t just happen—they are signals that something needs to change. This course gives you the skills to respond with confidence, uncover root causes, and take action to prevent recurrence. Ideal for health and safety representatives, team leaders, and those responsible for compliance, this training provides a structured and practical approach to incident investigation.

Why Incident Investigation Matters
Many workplace injuries are preventable. Often, organisations fail to retain or apply lessons from past incidents, and crucial evidence can be lost if investigations are delayed. This course ensures you understand the importance of timely and professional investigations to improve workplace safety and meet your legal obligations.

What You’ll Learn

• Why workplace incidents must be reported and investigated

• Key concepts of multiple causation and root-cause analysis

• How to conduct a structured incident investigation using a hypothetical scenario

• How to write a clear, evidence-based investigation report

What You’ll Achieve

• NZQA Unit Standard 17601: Demonstrate knowledge of workplace incident investigation

• Confidence to conduct and document effective workplace investigations

• A valuable skillset for compliance, safety leadership, and continuous improvement

Delivery Options

• Online: Flexible, self-paced eLearning

• Training Centre: Delivered at Besafe’s facilities in Auckland

• Onsite: We bring the training to your workplace

English Language Requirements
All learners must have an adequate understanding of written and spoken English to participate.

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.

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Health and Safety Representative Stage 2 is designed for elected Health and Safety Representatives who have completed initial HSR training and are ready to build stronger practical skills in workplace risk management and incident investigation.

This course supports HSRs to move beyond understanding their role and into actively contributing to safer work. Learners will develop practical skills to identify hazards, assess risk, recommend and review control measures, participate in incident investigations, and communicate findings clearly with workers and management.

The course is ideal for HSRs who want to be more confident, more effective, and better prepared to contribute to meaningful health and safety outcomes in their workplace.

Who should attend?

This course is suitable for:

• Health and Safety Representatives who have completed initial HSR training
• HSRs wanting to further develop their practical safety skills
• Workers involved in risk assessments, toolbox meetings or workplace inspections
• HSRs who may be involved in incident reporting or investigations
• Organisations wanting to strengthen worker participation and consultation
• Health and safety committee members wanting more practical capability

What you will learn

Learners will develop practical skills to:

• identify workplace hazards
• assess health and safety risk in a job role
• recommend suitable control measures
• monitor and review risk controls
• understand how risk assessment supports worker participation
• contribute to incident reporting and investigation processes
• gather and review information following an incident
• understand immediate causes, underlying causes and root causes
• produce an incident investigation report
• communicate findings and recommended actions clearly

NZQA Unit Standards

Learners who successfully complete the required assessments can achieve:

NZQA Unit Standard 30265
Apply health and safety risk assessment to a job role
Level 3, 8 credits

NZQA Unit Standard 17601
Produce an occupational health and safety incident investigation
Level 4, 6 credits

Course outcome

By the end of this course, learners will have a stronger understanding of how to apply practical risk assessment and incident investigation processes in the workplace.

They will be better prepared to support workers, contribute to consultation, raise meaningful health and safety concerns, and participate in practical safety improvements.

Entry recommendation

Learners should ideally have completed initial Health and Safety Representative training before attending this course.

This course is designed as a follow-on from initial HSR training and is suitable for HSRs who want to continue developing their practical workplace health and safety capability.

Duration

2 days

Delivery options

• Public courses at Besafe Training centres
• Company bookings at Besafe Training centres
• Onsite delivery available nationwide

Assessment

This course includes both training and assessment. Learners will need to complete the required assessment activities to achieve the NZQA unit standards.

Assessment activities are designed to reflect practical workplace application, including risk assessment and incident investigation tasks.

Why complete HSR Stage 2 with Besafe Training?

Besafe Training delivers practical health and safety training designed for real workplaces. Our training focuses on helping learners understand what good health and safety looks like in practice, not just in theory.

This course helps HSRs build the confidence to take a more active role in identifying risk, supporting workers, contributing to investigations and helping improve workplace safety outcomes.

Book this course

Build practical HSR capability with training in risk assessment and incident investigation.

Book online or contact Besafe Training to arrange a company booking.

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.

What will you learn?

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:

• Walk the talk and have skills for role modelling the desired skills, safe attitudes and behaviours required on site – including with sub-contractors.
• Develop good communication skills delivering effective and meaningful safety conversations.
• Positively influence and rectify inappropriate behaviour.
• Proactively assess “safety” risks and to drive safe attitudes and working methods in the workplace.
• Effectively utilise the safety tools and systems (hazard management, risk identification and assessment, incident investigation) to get better work outcomes.
• Clearly know their roles and responsibilities as a safety leader and be proactively involved in the management of safe on site, every day.