TOP 10 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY COURSES IN WHANGAREI, NEW ZEALAND

This course can also be customised to your work environment through relevant scenarios, policies and procedures.

This course teaches the types, classifications, potential effects and management controls of hazardous substances in the workplace. It is ideal for workers who hold some responsibility for the use of hazardous substances in the workplace, including line managers.

This course teaches risk management and the prevention of safety incidents and is critical in managing workplace safety under the Health and Safety at Work Act.

The Mobile Elevating Work Platform (MEWP) Code of Practice requires that employees are either sufficiently experienced to do their work safely or are supervised by an experienced person.

This course teaches how to work safely to erect non-notifiable and prefabricated frame scaffolding up to five metres in height and does not require a Certificate of Competence or notification to WorkSafe NZ. It is ideal for residential construction scaffold requirements.

A confined space is any area that is not intended for human occupancy, has limited access or has the potential to contain a toxic or oxygen deficient atmosphere. Training is necessary for supervisors, stand-by-people, workers entering confined spaces and rescue personnel.

This course teaches basic knowledge and skills for the manual handling of goods, equipment, and materials in the workplace. As well as the skills and techniques to ensure correct posture and back safety is maintained throughout.

A trained forklift operator is the key to ensuring the most effective and safe use of forklifts in the workplace. Having a trained and certified forklift operator requires a Forklift Operators Certificate as a minimum and if driving on a road, an F endorsement on their licence.

The course is designed for people required to operate an atmospheric testing device in order to determine whether a suitable atmosphere exists to work safely.

This course teaches what is Permit to Work, the benefits of Permit to Work, key features of the system and how to implement the system and monitor its effectiveness.