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Health and Safety Leadership

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Duration:One Day (8 Hours)

Maximum Attendees: 12

Training available nationwide at one of our centres, or your own workplace

Price (excl GST)

$2640 Company Booking

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Practical leadership for safer workplaces

This full day Health and Safety Leadership course is designed for managers and supervisors who have day to day responsibility for people, work, and workplace risk.

Aligned with the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and WorkSafe New Zealand expectations, the course focuses on practical leadership behaviours, legal responsibilities, and effective risk management.

Participants will build confidence in responding to incidents, engaging workers, managing contractors, and ensuring health and safety systems are applied in practice — not just on paper.

The session is interactive, discussion based, and grounded in real workplace scenarios relevant to New Zealand operations.

Key Learning Outcomes:

  1. Describe their legal responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015,
  2. Apply effective leadership practices to incident response, worker engagement, and risk management in the workplace
  3. Demonstrate how to manage health and safety systems in practice, including JSAs, hazard registers, emergency response, and contractor oversight

Entry Criteria:

  1. 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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Health & Safety Leadership Training Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about Health and Safety Leadership training in New Zealand.

A Health and Safety Leadership course teaches managers, supervisors, team leaders and business leaders how to create a positive workplace safety culture through effective leadership. The course focuses on influencing safe behaviours, improving worker engagement, developing accountability and helping leaders integrate health and safety into everyday business decisions to create safer workplaces across New Zealand.
This course is ideal for business owners, directors, managers, supervisors, team leaders, site managers, project managers, Health and Safety Representatives (HSRs), health and safety advisors and anyone responsible for leading people or influencing workplace safety. It is suitable across industries including construction, manufacturing, logistics, transport, agriculture, utilities and professional services.
Strong health and safety leadership helps organisations reduce workplace incidents, improve worker engagement, strengthen safety culture and meet their responsibilities under New Zealand's Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. Leaders who actively promote safe behaviours and involve workers in safety decisions create workplaces where health and safety becomes part of everyday operations rather than simply a compliance requirement.
During the course you'll learn how to:
  • Build a positive health and safety culture
  • Demonstrate effective safety leadership behaviours
  • Improve worker participation and engagement
  • Communicate health and safety expectations clearly
  • Lead by example in managing workplace risks
  • Encourage proactive hazard reporting
  • Strengthen accountability across teams
  • Support continuous improvement in workplace health and safety
The course provides practical leadership techniques that can be applied immediately within your organisation.
Effective leadership influences how workers think about and respond to workplace risks. By promoting open communication, encouraging worker involvement, recognising positive safety behaviours and addressing hazards proactively, leaders help reduce injuries, improve compliance and build a stronger safety culture throughout the organisation.
Yes. The course is designed for New Zealand workplaces and supports organisations in meeting their responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. It provides practical leadership strategies that can be applied across businesses of all sizes and industries to improve health and safety performance.
Yes. Health and Safety Leadership training is particularly valuable for managers, supervisors and team leaders because they play a key role in influencing workplace culture, managing risks and supporting safe work practices. The course helps leaders build the confidence and skills needed to lead health and safety effectively within their teams.
Yes. Safety 'n Action delivers Health and Safety Leadership training for organisations throughout New Zealand. Training can be delivered at one of Safety 'n Action's training centres or onsite at your workplace, making it easy to develop leadership capability across management teams while minimising disruption to business operations.
Health and Safety Leadership training benefits organisations across many industries, including construction, manufacturing, engineering, transport, warehousing, logistics, utilities, local government, education, healthcare, agriculture and corporate workplaces. Any organisation looking to improve safety culture and leadership capability can benefit from this training.
Safety 'n Action is one of New Zealand's leading workplace health and safety training providers with decades of experience delivering practical workplace training nationwide. The Health and Safety Leadership course combines real-world leadership strategies with practical learning that helps managers and supervisors create safer workplaces, improve worker engagement and strengthen organisational safety culture. Training is delivered by experienced industry professionals and is available throughout New Zealand for both individuals and workplace groups.

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