Height Safety Introduction
Key Information
Duration:1 Day (8 Hours)
Maximum Attendees: 12
Training available nationwide at one of our centres, or your own workplace
Price (excl GST)
$340 Per Person
Working at Heights Training NZ
Height Safety Introduction: practical working at heights training
This working at heights course guides you through the selection and safe use of height safety equipment, including harness systems and fall prevention gear. You’ll complete practical scenarios covering fall arrest, work positioning, restraint systems, and how to develop a basic rescue plan.
We also cover common working at height risks across real workplaces, including scaffolds, mobile elevated work platforms (MEWPs), ladders, guardrails, walkways, ramps and stairways.
Safety ‘n Action maintains Consent to Assess for the unit standards delivered within this training. This course has been pre-moderated and approved by The Skills Organisation as the relevant standard setting body.
Students need to have 3 months of work experience in the industry prior to doing the course.
Please bring along your ID - We need to verify the identity of students in attendance, please bring ID with you on the day of training.
Key Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate knowledge of hazards associated with wearing a safety harness and associated equipment
- Demonstrate knowledge of safety harnesses and associated systems and equipment
- Check and fit a safety harness system
- Use a safety harness system where a fall hazard exists at height
- Demonstrate knowledge of the rescue plan to be activated in the event of a fall
Heights Safety Legislation
If you wish to gain unit standard 17600 height safety legislation during your in-person training please contact our customer service team or speak with your sales rep
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.
