Health & Safety Representative

Who should attend

This course is for you if you:

• Want to understand your role as a link between the leaders and workers and how to perform your representative functions effectively.

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:

• Recognise the benefits of health and safety and the cost of ignoring it for workers and employers.
• Identify the Health and Safety Representative’s (HSR’s) role under HSWA 2015 and the PCBU’s and WorkSafe NZ’s obligations.
• Recognise the various Safety Management Systems that an organisation have in place to manage health and safety.
• Use Health and Safety Representatives (HSRs) and Health and Safety Committees (HSCs) to engage workers.
• Identify key functions of a Health and Safety Representative and the skills and attitude you must carry to perform these functions effectively.
• Authorise an elected and trained Health and Safety Representative.
• Issue a Provisional Improvement Notice (PIN).

At the end of the course, you'll need to complete an on-course assignment across the two days of the course. You will be given time to complete the various sections of the assignment at the end of the relevant sections. The assignments will then be collected at the end of the course for marking.

If you pass, you will be issued a digital Site Safety Card, 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.
• 16 Licensed Building Practitioner points.
• 9 credits towards our Health and Safety in Construction certificate programme.
• NZQA Unit Standard 29315 - Describe the role and functions of the Health and Safety Representative in a New Zealand workplace.
• A downloadable and printable e-certificate.

Next learning steps

Once you have completed the Health and Safety Representative course and achieved unit standard 29315 you will be eligible as an elected Health and Safety Rep in your workplace to undertake additional training, using your annual Health and Safety Representative training entitlement.

You and your PCBU (workplace) must agree that the further training is relevant to your Health and Safety Rep role.

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

Renew your Site Safety Card

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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.