Besafe Site Passport – Supervisor

Course Information

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 Besafe Training Site Passport – Supervisors course:

• The identification of hazards that may harm workers, the work environment, and organisations.
  • These will be looked at in terms of physical and mental effects.
  • Including – injury, acute and chronic health effects, quality of life; sources will include – machinery, handling, processes, workplace conditions.

• About the health and safety requirements of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and Regulations for risk assessment and hazard control in terms of the objectives and compliance duties.
  • The onus of ‘all reasonably practicable steps’ is discussed in terms of the HSWA 2015.
  • Describe hazard control methods
  • Identify hazards and apply risk assessment procedures. This may be done through task analysis, Job Safety Analysis (JSA), behaviour analysis, environment analysis, ‘what if’ analysis, fault tree analysis, accident and incident investigations, documentation and reporting.

• You will make assessments of the probability, level of risk, consequences using hazard identification forms and risk assessment reports.

What you will achieve:

• NZQA unit standard 17602
• Besafe Site Passport – Supervisor

Recommended for:

Workplace supervisors/managers to undertake and manage hazard identification and risk assessment procedures