Online Isolations Awareness Seminar
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.
Price (excl GST)
$185 Per Person
Build essential awareness of isolation and Lock-Out/Tag-Out (LOTO) practices to prevent hazardous energy incidents.
Isolations Awareness
This online course allows you to train at a time and location that suits you.
This awareness-based seminar introduces participants to the fundamental principles of isolations and Lock-Out/Tag-Out (LOTO) as critical controls for managing hazardous energy. Learners gain an understanding of isolation types, zero-energy verification, legal responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015, and the correct use of locks, tags, hasps, and related safety equipment.
The course emphasises risk management, safe work processes, and the prevention of serious harm during maintenance, cleaning, inspection, or repair activities.
This is a non-unit standard course.
Key Learning Outcomes
- Explain the purpose of isolations and Lock-Out/Tag-Out (LOTO)
- Identify common workplace scenarios requiring isolation
- Describe the risk management cycle and the role of isolation within the hierarchy of controls
- Recognise key roles involved in isolation processes ( PI, PR, Isolator, Safety Observer)
- Explain the steps of the isolation and LOTO process, including verification and reinstatement.
Entry Criteria:
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 authorizing 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 authorizing the student’s attendance. The reader/writer cannot be another student attending the same course.
Online Isolation Awareness Training Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about the Online Isolation Awareness course in New Zealand.
- Operators and maintenance workers
- Contractors and engineers
- Supervisors and team leaders
- Health and Safety Representatives
- Site managers
- Manufacturing and construction workers
- Anyone involved in workplace safety
- The purpose and importance of isolation procedures
- Different types of hazardous energy sources
- The risks of uncontrolled energy release
- Isolation processes and responsibilities
- Lockout/tagout (LOTO) principles
- Verification and checking isolation effectiveness
- Safe work practices around machinery and equipment
- The responsibilities of workers and supervisors
- Electrical energy
- Mechanical energy
- Hydraulic energy
- Pneumatic energy
- Chemical energy
- Thermal energy
- Gravity and stored energy
- Pressure systems
- Manufacturing and construction
- Mining and utilities
- Energy and engineering
- Agriculture and forestry
- Transport and warehousing
- Food processing and heavy industry
