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Canvas is accessible only within New Zealand and Australia.
The workplace health and safety programmes provide nationally recognised qualifications designed to build practical skills for creating safer workplaces. They equip people to apply legislative requirements, manage risks, and contribute to a positive safety culture. Training focuses on hazard identification, risk assessment, safety systems and procedures, communication of safety expectations, and continuous improvement practices.
Benefits of these programmes
Programmes available
Health and safety is a vital part of every workplace. It’s about looking out for yourself and others, spotting risks before they become problems, and creating a safer place to work. Day-to-day your role might involve identifying hazards on site, supporting your team to follow safety procedures, or helping to build a positive safety culture. With the right training, you can make a real difference and set yourself up for future roles in supervision, leadership, or safety coordination.
What do people in health and safety roles do?
Depending on the workplace, tasks may include:
Health and safety roles exist in almost every sector, from manufacturing and engineering to transport, trades, and office environments.
Is workplace health & safety right for you?
Helpful study areas
Attributes that help you succeed
Helpful experience
Pathways into health and safety
Learners often step into health and safety from operational, trade, or frontline roles. These qualifications help you grow your confidence and capability, whether you're supporting safety on the floor or developing towards advisory roles.
Entry-level opportunities
Workplace health and safety qualifications
Level 3 – Workplace Health and Safety Practice
Build essential knowledge of hazards, risk assessment, reporting, communication, and safe work behaviours. Ideal for those supporting day-to-day safety on the job.
Level 4 – Workplace Health and Safety Practice
Develop deeper understanding of safety systems, investigations, and improvement processes. Suitable for those moving into H&S coordination or advisory roles.
Workplace Health and Safety learning includes general health and safety improvements, through to the development of management and systems development.
These qualifications are designed to have the flexibility to be adapted to your industry and the health and safety risks within your business.
With the new health and safety legislation in place, these qualifications help you validate your commitment to your responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
Workplace Health and Safety is about giving your people the key knowledge, skills and attributes they need to reduce the incidents of accident and injury in your workplace.
Because your people train on-the-job, the theoretical knowledge they gain can be immediately applied to systems and processes.
Workplace-based health and safety qualifications deliver increased understanding at every level of your organisation, and gives you the tools you need to keep levies low and your people safe.
