Safety 'n Action is a New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) Accredited Private Training Establishment that delivers training in Occupational Health and Safety. As a nationwide provider, training is delivered directly at the client's site or at one of our purpose built training centres. The Role: Safety 'n Action is seeking more trainers to keep up [...]
Hearing damage significantly limits the ability to communicate, and through this, limits a person’s abilities to interact with their families and community. And guess what? Hearing loss is relatively common in New Zealand AND Males have the highest costs associated with hearing loss! Below is a quick look at why hearing conservation training [...]
Training Excellence Reaps Rewards for Safety ‘n Action Trainer Safety ‘n Action takes their mission of transforming New Zealand’s health and safety culture seriously with all of their trainers taking this challenge with them into the classroom every day. So, it only gets better when one of their own is recognised for their [...]
Our Wellington trainer, Gary Butcher has a Confined Spaces Emergency Rescue background. He loves going “bush” when not training many grateful students in Confined Space, Height Safety, MEWP and the rest of our courses. Gazza recently came back from training a Confined Space and gas detection course on a customers site where after a few teams had [...]
Safety ‘n Action would like to announce our new and improved Permit to Work course which will be available as both a Company booked and open public course from July onward. 6 months ago we started the journey reaching out to our customers and gathering together industries best practice and learnings around Permit to [...]
On average, 75 people per year die on the job, 1 in 10 is harmed and 600-900 die from work-related diseases—all coming to a financial cost of approximately $3.5 billion per year. And that doesn’t include the social and psychological costs on the friends, family, loved ones and co-workers of those people hurt [...]
As part of Safety ‘n Action's ongoing commitment to be New Zealand’s most Relevant, Practical and Fun Health & Safety Training Provider, we are excited to announce this as the next step in our commitment to helping your business achieve and maintain the highest levels of training and productivity. All 30+ of our [...]
For a few years now, NZISM has engaged with the Production Safety Supervision and Administration of Hubei Province, P. R. China (WorkSafe NZ equivalent in the Provence of Hubei). This year a delegation from China visited and the agenda for the meeting was based around Development of Workplace Training Programmes related to Health and [...]
Business leaders are giving more attention to workplace health and safety but their employees are not, a new survey suggests. Deloitte's latest health and safety report surveyed 169 chief executives and managing directors of New Zealand companies. Four in five of the bosses reported that their organisation's health and safety measures had improved in 2016, but [...]
In many jobs heat stress is an issue all year round (such as boiler rooms, bakeries, laundries, foundries and smelting operations), but this information is also applicable during the hot summer months where there may be an increased risk for some people. In addition, age, weight, degree of physical fitness and acclimatisation, dehydration, metabolism, use [...]