Certified Handler Preparation Online
Key Information
Duration:Self-Paced Learning
Online Learning, completed in your own time at a location of your choice. Once you have signed up to your course, you have 60 days of accessibility to complete your assessment.
Live online Zoom tutorial available to all students.
This is intended to prepare students for their application to become a Certified Handler. It is specially designed for people required to deal specifically with highly hazardous substances. Once you have completed this course you will gain unit standard 31291.
$440 +GST per person, please see enquiry form below to lodge your booking.
This online course provides information on the requirements and duties of Certified Handlers. Under new regulations, anyone who handles a hazardous substance must be trained.
Before you complete this course you must complete the pre-requisite course, Hazardous Substances for Managers and Supervisors to gain unit standards 31290.
Additional information, training, and instruction is required for Certified Handlers who handle highly hazardous substances. These being:
- Explosives
- Fumigants
- Vertebrate toxic agents (VTAs)
- Acutely toxic (6.1A and 6.1B) substances
US 31291 This unit standard is for people preparing for, and intend to apply for, Certified Handler certification. People credited with this unit standard are able to:
- Describe requirements relevant for a Certified Handler;
- Demonstrate knowledge of hazardous substances relevant to the candidate’s role.
- Describe emergency procedures involving hazardous substances relevant to the candidate’s role.
Achievement of this unit standard alone does not qualify a person as a hazardous substances Certified Handler. Candidates wishing to be certified as a hazardous substances Certified Handler may be required to undertake additional industry specific training required by regulation for the particular hazardous substances and equipment they will be working with.
Online only with support from a qualified trainer.
Key Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate requirements relevant to a Certified Handler
- Demonstrate knowledge of hazardous substances relevant to your role; and
- Describe emergency procedures involving hazardous substances relevant to your role.
Prerequisite:
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31290 Demonstrate knowledge of the safe management and potential adverse effects of hazardous substances in the workplace
- Has not exceeded refresher period of 5 years and 3 months.
Entry Criteria:
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All students are required to have a level of written and oral English equivalent to NCEA level 1 (year 11) or IELTS 5.5 or higher, to be eligible to attend our courses. The person responsible for making bookings or authorising attendance on the course must agree to these Terms and Conditions prior to acceptance of their student(s) onto the course. Where a student does not meet our English language requirement a reader/writer must be supplied by the student or the person responsible for authorising the student’s attendance. The reader/writer cannot be another student attending the same course
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Certified Handler Preparation Online Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about the Certified Handler Preparation Online course in New Zealand.
- Describe the requirements relevant to a Certified Handler under New Zealand hazardous substances regulations
- Demonstrate knowledge of hazardous substances relevant to their role
- Describe emergency procedures involving hazardous substances relevant to their role
- Explosives
- Fumigants
- Vertebrate toxic agents (VTAs)
- Acutely toxic substances classified as 6.1A and 6.1B
