Our Sling Regular Loads Safely course is a practical one-day program designed for people involved in lifting operations. It builds essential skills to prepare, sling, and secure regular loads safely in line with industry best practice and crane safety regulations.

This hands-on course blends theory and real-world application, giving learners the confidence and competence to use lifting gear safely and effectively. It also lays the foundation for more advanced crane and slinging training.

Course Content

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

• Identify lifting hazards and apply effective hazard control measures
• Complete lift plans using approved procedures
• Demonstrate knowledge of lifting gear and working load limit (WLL) tables
• Prepare and sling regular loads safely using correct techniques
• Use communication signals during lifting operations
• Apply practical slinging methods including taglines, knots, and gear selection

Assessment

• Written knowledge assessments
• Practical exercises and observed lifts
• Assessment must occur in a crane workplace or equivalent non-simulated environment
• Two assessor-observed lifts and logbook evidence of at least 40 verified lifts across a variety of site, load, and communication conditions (as required for full unit sign-off)

Off-site Delivery: We can deliver this course at your site with appropriate lifting equipment in place. Please call us to confirm requirements.

PPE Requirements

Participants must wear:

• Safety boots
• Hard hat
• High-visibility clothing
• Gloves

Industry Compliance

This course aligns with:

• The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
• The Approved Code of Practice for Cranes (3rd edition, 2009)
• Industry good practice guidelines for rigging and slinging operations

📞 Company bookings available at your site or ours – call us on 0800 333 899 to learn more.

Our Rigging & Slinging: Direct Crane Operations course is designed for workers needing to safely sling varied regular loads and direct a crane during lifting operations. Delivered in person by experienced instructors, this one-day course provides a mix of theory and practical tasks that meet industry expectations in a supported, safety-first environment.

You’ll gain essential skills in hazard management, communication methods, lift planning, and the correct use of rigging equipment. This course is ideal for those working toward Dogman responsibilities or preparing for more advanced crane operation standards.

Post-course requirement: To complete the unit standard, students must log a minimum of 40 verified lifts across at least six variations. Each lift must be signed off by a supervisor or manager. We provide an evidence booklet to guide this process, and there is no time limit to complete the log – it’s flexible to suit your work environment.

Course Content

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Plan lifting operations with appropriate risk management and hazard controls.
• Demonstrate the difference between regular and irregular loads.
• Use rigging gear correctly: slings, shackles, taglines, packing, and dunnage.
• Communicate using crane industry standards and signals.
• Safely sling and direct at least two types of loads.

Assessment Methods:

• Written assessment
• Practical demonstration
• Workplace-based lift log (40 lifts minimum, including two observed by assessor)

Off-site Delivery: We can deliver this course at your site with appropriate lifting equipment in place. Please call us to confirm requirements.

PPE Requirements

All students must bring:

• Safety boots
• Hard hat
• High-vis clothing
• Gloves

📞 Company bookings available on your site or ours – call us now to find out more: 0800 333 899

Emergency Rescue Plan and Techniques

If you work at heights, it is important that you have the correct training to perform the task safely and understand the risks involved. Our training course will provide you with the knowledge and hands-on experience to ensure that you understand your responsibilities and have the skills to work safely at height.

Course Overview

This course is designed to equip participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to respond effectively to emergency situations involving suspended individuals after a fall in a workplace environment. Participants will learn about the principles of emergency response, risk assessment, rescue equipment, and techniques for safely recovering suspended individuals.

At BeSafe Training Ltd. We foster a learning environment that embraces and welcomes all students.

Unit Standards

Unit Standard: 23232: Prepare an emergency rescue plan and perform a rescue to recover a suspended individual after a fall in a work context. Level 4, Credit 5

Entry requirement: Employees involved in relevant tasks covered by the Unit Standard or those who hold Unit Standard 17600, 23229 and 15757 or rope access training.

Pre-requisite: Unit Standard 23229

(Source: Best practice guidelines for working at height in New Zealand)

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:

• Define manual handling
• The 5 principles of manual handling
• Hazard identification, risk assessment and control measures
• Roles and responsibilities
• Demonstrate techniques for avoiding manual handling injuries

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

This one-day course (with required pre-learning) is designed for senior secondary school students looking to develop advanced first aid skills.

It builds confidence to respond to real-world emergency situations at school, work, or in the community.

What You’ll Learn

You will gain the knowledge and confidence to respond to a range of medical emergencies involving more than one person. This includes how to assess and manage patients experiencing:

• Shock, bleeding, and burns

• Fractures and soft tissue injuries

• Poisoning, heart attack, asthma, stroke, seizure, and diabetes

You’ll also learn essential life-saving skills such as CPR and how to assist someone who is choking (foreign body airway obstruction).

Course Delivery

The course is delivered in a blended format — you’ll complete some learning online before attending a one-day, practical, hands-on training session. The in-person training uses real-life scenarios to build your confidence and teamwork skills in responding to emergencies.

This one-day foundational health and safety course provides students with the essential knowledge to understand key roles, duties, and responsibilities.

It also equips learners with practical skills to identify workplace hazards, assess and manage risks, and apply effective controls relevant to their job role, supporting a safer work environment.

This two-day course is designed to give secondary school students a strong foundation in workplace health and safety.

It helps them prepare for entry into the workforce with confidence and awareness.

What You’ll Learn

Through interactive training and real-world scenarios, learners will gain the knowledge and practical skills to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of workplace health and safety requirements (US 497)

• Identify and describe hazardous substances in the workplace (US 17593)

• Apply health and safety risk assessment to a job role (US 30265)

• Identify and describe the role of a health and safety representative (US 17592)

These unit standards are valuable across a wide range of industries and support a safe, responsible approach to entering the workforce.

Course Delivery

The course uses a blended learning model. Students complete engaging pre-learning through our digital platform before attending two full days of in-person training at our purpose-built facility. The hands-on sessions reinforce learning with practical activities and teamwork.

Train Like the Pros at Our Purpose-Built Facility

We encourage you to bring your students to our facility so they can experience an industry-leading training environment that supports their learning journey and career exploration in the construction sector.

Experience what it’s like to be on a real job site! This course can be delivered at our industry-standard training facility, designed to give you hands-on experience in a safe and supportive environment. You’ll take part in practical exercises that reflect real construction work, helping you build confidence, learn new skills, and understand what it takes to stay safe on site. It’s a great way to get a feel for the industry and take your first step toward a career in construction.

Certification and Pathways

On successful completion, students will receive NZQA credits and a Workplace Safety training certificate. This Gateway course supports pathways into construction, trades, infrastructure, manufacturing, retail, and other sectors where health and safety knowledge is essential.

We encourage you to bring your students to our industry-standard training facility to give them the best possible start in today’s working environment.

This two-day interactive course is designed for senior secondary school students interested in exploring a career in the construction or infrastructure industries.

It introduces essential health and safety principles with a specific focus on safe working at heights.

What You’ll Learn

Through practical activities and real-world scenarios, you will learn how to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of workplace health and safety requirements (US 497)
• Apply health and safety risk assessment to a job role (US 30265)
• Use a safety harness for personal fall prevention when working at height (US 23229)
• Employ height safety equipment in the workplace (US 25045)

This course builds your understanding of key construction safety procedures and prepares you for entry-level roles or further industry training.

Course Delivery

The course is delivered over two full days at your site or ours and includes hands-on, scenario-based learning using industry-standard safety equipment. Students are supported by experienced instructors who create an engaging and supportive learning environment.

Train Like the Pros at Our Purpose-Built Facility

We encourage you to bring your students to our facility so they can experience an industry-leading training environment that supports their learning journey and career exploration in the construction sector.

Experience what it’s like to be on a real job site! This course can be delivered at our industry-standard training facility, designed to give you hands-on experience in a safe and supportive environment. You’ll take part in practical exercises that reflect real construction work, helping you build confidence, learn new skills, and understand what it takes to stay safe on site. It’s a great way to get a feel for the industry and take your first step toward a career in construction.

Certification and Pathways

Upon successful completion, you will receive NZQA credits and a Construction Safety training certificate. This Gateway programme supports future pathways into apprenticeships, trade training, and entry-level employment in the construction and infrastructure sectors.

This course will help you understand how to implement risk management you will be required to apply health and safety risk assessment to a task or work area.

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.

What you will learn on the Risk Management course:

• Rights and Responsibilities
• Risk Management
• Plan: Hazards and Risks
• Do: Systems and Controls
• Check: Monitoring Controls
• Act: Taking Action

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