Training & Supervising Workers
This course is designed to provide the construction industry with competent managers, supervisors and trainers who understand the impacts of gaps in competence on worker health and safety, can effectively identify training and supervision needs.
Non-member price$267.00
Course formats available
Classroom
Webinar
This course is for you if you:
- are an entry level forepersons, onsite supervisor and operations manager in the construction industry, or those who are experienced if they have learnt on the job and would benefit from having a framework put around their knowledge, skill and experience, or
- construction worker who have responsibilities for training, supervision and monitoring of workers (including informally, e.g., mentoring, facilitating toolbox talks, etc.), competence assessments, SSSP/risk management documentation, developing training policies, procedures and programmes (whether formal or informal).
If you are renewing your Site Safety Card and have done this course in the past, you don't need to complete this course again. Expand your skills by choosing a different course instead.
You will learn how to:
- develop 3 core principles for describing the role of training and supervision in health and safety
- develop sound training and supervision oversight and management based on:
- the impact of worker ‘gaps in competence’ and lack of training and supervision on:
- worker H&S in terms of fatalities
- individuals and PCBUs (introduction of term ‘competence management’) as victims and through enforcement of HSWA 2015
- wider benefits (beyond physical H&S) to workers and to businesses, particularly in regard to levels of stress, workload and profitability
- the impact of worker ‘gaps in competence’ and lack of training and supervision on:
- risk management-based principles for managing competence and providing training and supervision
- demonstrate and practice activities based on the key principles of risk management:
- identifying and assessing risk by identifying training and supervision needs
- controlling risk by providing training and supervision
- monitoring and reviewing the provision of training and supervision
- learner reflection on course content in light of their own personal and company contexts.
At the end of the course, you'll need to complete and submit a take home assignment within 3 months of attending the course.
If you pass, you will be issued a digital Site Safety Card with the green foundation indicator, valid for 2 years.
A Site Safety Card, valid for 2 years. Most major New Zealand contractors require workers to have a valid Site Safety Card before entering a construction site.
You'll get 8 Licensed Building Practitioner points.
You'll also get 7 credits towards our Health and Safety in Construction certificate programme.
A downloadable and printable e-certificate.
You'll need to complete another Site Safe course every 2 years to keep your Site Safety Card current.
Cancellations, refunds and frequently asked questions
To complete this course, you need to be able to read and understand English.
If you cannot, we regularly deliver this course in these languages:
- Thai
- Cantonese
- Vietnamese
- Samoan
- Tongan
- Mandarin
- Korean
- Portugese
- Niuean
- Tokelauan
- Filipino
Other courses, languages and regions are available on request – or we may be able to provide you an interpreter or allow you to bring your own interpreter.
If you don't attend a course you're signed up for, we will notify the person who purchased the course. They will not be entitled to a refund.
You can cancel or change a booking up to 5 working days before the start of the course. If you cancel more than 5 days before the start of the course, you will receive a credit on your account to be used within 12 months, or you (or your employer, if they paid for the course) can request a refund by:
- completing the Refund Request Form
- emailing it to us at accountspayable@sitesafe.org.nz.
Refunds are usually processed in 7 to 14 days.
Within 5 working days of the course starting, you can transfer your seat to another person from the same company. If you cancel, you or your employer will not get a refund.
Changes and cancellations can be made through your account, or through your employer if they booked you on the course.
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Apply for a scholarship for our Health and Safety in Construction certificate programme. Applications open each year in September.