Overview

Provides workplaces with people that have the skills and knowledge to promote and monitor health and safety practices and procedures, and a positive health and safety culture in the workplace.

Graduates will benefit New Zealand

For those intending to have a workplace health and safety function as part of their primary job role.

Learning outcomes – graduates will be able to:

• Implement, supervise, monitor, and communicate organisational and job-specific health and safety requirements and practices, for a team in the workplace
• Utilise leadership skills to promote the benefits of good workplace health and safety practices and a proactive health and safety culture within a team
• Apply knowledge of health and safety risk analyses and mitigation strategies for a team in the workplace
• Recognise the impact of work-related ill health and injuries on a specific business operation and the wider industry.

Approximate duration

5 - 12 months