Health & Safety in Contracting

Who should attend

This course is for you if you:

• influence the health and safety decisions in the contracting process, or
• are a principle and subcontractor, client, consultant, manager within the construction industry.

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.

Renew your Site Safety Card

What you'll learn

You will learn how to:

• Identify the roles and legal responsibilities in the contracting process.
  • Identify the various legal roles and responsibilities in the contracting process.
  • Understand how and why the role holders need to consult, coordinate, and cooperate.
  • Recognise the consequences of role holders not consulting, coordinating, and cooperating well enough.
• Recognise the benefits of selecting contractors who perform safely.
  • Recognise the impact of injuries on the various role holders (involved in the contracting process).
  • Recognise the benefits of selecting contractors based on their H&S performance.
  • Understand the need for a H&S culture to reap these benefit.
• Recognise how to get involved and influence each stage of the contracting process.
  • Describe what a ‘good practice’ framework for selecting contractors looks like.
  • Understand the importance of communication, information sharing and contractor selection for any organisation in meeting their goals for budgets and timelines.
  • Identify key project health and safety requirements and how to communicate them to and coordinate them with contractors.
• Recognise safety culture and key performance indicators.
  • Recognise the importance of leadership in driving organisational safety culture.
  • Improve lead contractor health and safety Key Performance Indicators.

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.

What you'll get

On completion of the course requirements, you’ll receive:

• 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.
• 7 Licensed Building Practitioner points.
• 7 credits towards our Health and Safety in Construction certificate programme.
• A downloadable and printable e-certificate.

Next learning steps

You'll need to complete another Site Safe course every 2 years to keep your Site Safety Card current.

Renew your Site Safety Card

Interested in enrolling into the Health & Safety in Construction Programme?

Health and Safety in Construction certificate programme

Cancellations, refunds and frequently asked questions

If English is your second language

To complete this course, you need to be able to read and understand English.

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.

Contact us to find out more

If you miss the course

If you would like to know more about refunds when a course is missed, refer to our Terms and Conditions.

Cancellations and refunds

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.

View our Frequently Asked Questions.