Drive change: be a part of the health and safety solution
Do your staff really understand health and safety in their workplace?
When it comes to workplace health and safety, how confident are you that your frontline team effectively understands key messages?
Do they participate in health and safety practices at work?
This short course ensures that your team are equipped with the health and safety communication tools and understanding to keep themselves, their colleagues and your organisation safe.
Best for
Companies that want to make sure their staff have the communication skills to engage with workplace health and safety
Duration
25 hours
Price
Funding is available, talk to us
NZQA qualification
No
Location
Onsite
Format
Client cohort
Workplace health and safety law in New Zealand is clear: All businesses and undertakings must have worker engagement and participation practices, regardless of their size, level of risk or the type of work they carry out. The intent and best practice guidelines relating to this, according to Worksafe are:
- Everyone has a role to play in making sure workplaces are healthy and safe.
- Workplaces have better health and safety outcomes when workers have a say about health and safety matters.
This short course will boost your staff engagement in health and safety practices by:
- making sure everyone understands the language of health and safety in your workplace
- getting to the ‘why’ and purpose of everyday health and safety tasks
- getting staff involved in codesign of standard operating procedures and discussions about ‘work as done’ versus ‘work as imagined’ (This type of codesign has been shown to address gaps in understanding and improve health and safety practices)
- ensuring staff have strategies around speaking up and being assertive
- ensuring staff can report hazards and near misses confidently and thoroughly
- bringing cultural norms and beliefs about health and safety into the open for discussion
- making sure everyone knows what role they play in creating a strong safety culture at work
Get in touch with us at Upskills to talk about how we can customise this programme to your workplace, and use our Return on Investment metrics to track success.
FAQs
I'm confident that my staff understand health and safety. They know they can speak up and tell it to us straight when we ask them.
While this will have been communicated well, cross cultural communication norms could mean something else. For instance, in some Pacific Island cultures, it is considered impolite to openly challenge a supervisor’s opinion. Bringing some cultural intelligence to the health and safety conversation is vital.
How much does a programme like this cost?
Funding is available for this type of work. Get in touch and we can advise.
How do we know if we need this type of training at our company?
We can help you understand that with our needs analysis conversation and process. If you’re wanting to drive up the number of near misses and hazard IDs from frontline staff, increase participation at toolbox and health and safety meetings, and involve staff in creating a strong health and safety culture, this course will help you to achieve those goals. We track progress from baseline to agreed improvement metrics so you know that the learning is being transferred directly at work.
Find out more
- Read about the latest results of New Zealand’s health and safety performance and why we need to do things differently here
