The New Zealand Certificate in Workplace Health and Safety Practice (Level 3) delivered by Besafe Training Ltd is a flexible, rolling-intake programme designed to equip learners with the essential knowledge and practical skills required to contribute to effective health and safety practices in New Zealand workplaces. This 24-week part-time programme is structured around a series of standalone courses already scheduled as part of Besafe’s public course calendar, allowing learners to join at multiple points throughout the year and study at a pace that suits their availability.

This programme is designed to be accessible, inclusive, and aligned with industry needs.

Programme Aim
The programme aims to produce job-ready graduates capable of applying health and safety principles under limited supervision. Graduates will be able to contribute to workplace safety culture, apply risk management procedures, issue and monitor work permits, act as safety observers, and demonstrate competency in one of four optional applied contexts: working at heights, confined space entry, elevated work platforms, or discomfort, pain, and injury (DPI) prevention and management.

Programme Structure
The programme is made up of four compulsory courses (33 credits) and one optional course (8 credits), totalling 41 credits. These courses are drawn from Besafe’s existing public course schedule, offering learners maximum flexibility in when and how they complete their study.

Compulsory Courses:

• HSP301 Health and Safety: Requirements and Practices (11 credits)
• HSP302 Risk Mitigation and Safety Risk Analysis (8 credits)
• HSP303 Safety Observer (8 credits)
• HSP304 Permit to Work (6 credits)

Optional Courses (choose one):

• HSP305 Working at Heights (8 credits)
• HSP306 Confined Space Entry (8 credits)
• HSP307 Elevated Work Platform (8 credits)
• HSP308 DPI Prevention and Management (8 credits)

Graduate Outcomes
Graduates will be able to:

• Apply health and safety requirements in accordance with legislation and industry codes
• Conduct risk assessments and implement controls
• Act as a safety observer and monitor high-risk work activities
• Issue, monitor, and audit work permits
• Apply Tikanga Māori principles to workplace health and safety practices
• Operate safely in one of four applied contexts selected by the learner (Working at Heights / Confined Space Entry / Elevated Working Platform / DPI Prevention and Management)

Delivery Mode and Methods
The programme is delivered through a combination of face-to-face workshops, practical/on-job learning, and self-directed study. Directed learning includes interactive workshops, simulations, assessments, and case studies.

Assessment Methods
Learners are assessed through written assessments and practical observations. Assessment tasks are designed to reflect real-world workplace scenarios.

COMING SOON – This intensive, hands‑on course teaches participants to safely and effectively operate radio remote and pendant-controlled overhead (gantry) cranes. Covering theory and practical application, learners will gain the necessary skills to conduct lifts, perform equipment checks, and maintain crane readiness—aligned with NZQA Unit Standard 3800 (Level 3, 10 credits).

Why Complete This Course?
Operating overhead gantry cranes carries inherent risk. This course ensures operators meet industry and legislative standards—such as the HSWA, Crane Safety Manual, Approved Code of Practice, and equipment manufacturer requirements—minimising hazards through proper knowledge and technique .

What You’ll Learn:

• Understand component functions, control methods, and operational hazards

• Perform pre‑start checks, locking/tagging out, and fault reporting

• Sling, lift, travel with, and place regular loads using radio remote or pendant controls

• Respond correctly to emergency stop signals and recognised hand signals

• Park and secure equipment after use, and document any defects

• Conduct daily/weekly operator-level maintenance

Course Delivery:

• Format: In-person, practical and theory components

• Group Size: Maximum of 6–8 participants per session

• Location: Besafe training centre or on-site at your facility

Train at Our Custom-Built Facility
This course is delivered at Besafe’s purpose-built crane training facility, designed to replicate real-world conditions. With industry-standard equipment and realistic lifting scenarios, learners gain hands-on experience in a safe, controlled environment—ensuring they’re job-ready and confident to operate overhead gantry cranes.

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.

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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?

• Check out this short demo video to see how easy it is – Demo Video
• Dedicated tutor support available via email and phone
• Courses developed to ensure learners are successful with their assessment – 99% success rate
• Sign in and out of the course as it suits you – your course on your schedule
• No time-limit to complete the course
• Every course has a ‘Nuts and Bolts’ page with guidance on how to use the course

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

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

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.