Psychosocial and Wellbeing Courses
A healthy workplace is about more than physical safety. Stress, conflict, workload and workplace culture all affect how people feel and how they perform. Under health and safety law in New Zealand these psychosocial risks need to be managed in the same way as physical hazards.
Our psychosocial safety and wellbeing courses help organisations understand these risks and build safer, healthier workplaces. The courses cover practical, everyday topics like managing stress, handling conflict and building a positive safety culture, so your people have the knowledge and tools to look after themselves and each other.
Explore our current courses below. We're adding more to this range, so check back soon.
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Online Strategies for Taming Stress - Awareness
Learn practical, everyday strategies to manage stress in a healthier way. This online course helps you recognise your triggers, build better coping habits, and feel more calm, focused, and in control.
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Design your workspace for comfort, safety, and peak performance.Online Workplace Ergonomics Awareness
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Workplace Health & Safety Culture
Gain the knowledge of workplace health and safety culture, to prepare you for the Workforce Unit standards covered: 30266
Psychosocial Safety and Workplace Wellbeing Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about psychosocial safety and workplace wellbeing training in New Zealand.
Psychosocial hazards are workplace factors that can negatively affect employees' mental or physical health. Common examples include excessive workloads, workplace bullying, harassment, poor communication, lack of management support, workplace violence and ongoing stress.
Under New Zealand's Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA), businesses must identify and manage psychosocial risks, just as they would physical workplace hazards. Safety 'n Action offers psychosocial safety and wellbeing courses designed to help workplaces recognise these risks and develop healthier working environments.
Under New Zealand's Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA), businesses must identify and manage psychosocial risks, just as they would physical workplace hazards. Safety 'n Action offers psychosocial safety and wellbeing courses designed to help workplaces recognise these risks and develop healthier working environments.
Yes. Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015, New Zealand businesses have a legal duty to manage risks to workers' physical and mental health, so far as is reasonably practicable.
This includes identifying and managing psychosocial risks such as work-related stress, bullying, harassment, fatigue and workplace aggression. Employers must also engage with workers when making decisions about managing health and safety risks.
Psychosocial safety training can help managers and employees understand these responsibilities, although training alone does not fulfil every legal requirement.
This includes identifying and managing psychosocial risks such as work-related stress, bullying, harassment, fatigue and workplace aggression. Employers must also engage with workers when making decisions about managing health and safety risks.
Psychosocial safety training can help managers and employees understand these responsibilities, although training alone does not fulfil every legal requirement.
Safety 'n Action offers psychosocial safety and workplace wellbeing training for New Zealand businesses and employees, with online and face-to-face learning options.
Its current course range includes:
These courses address different aspects of workplace wellbeing, allowing businesses to choose training relevant to their teams.
Its current course range includes:
- Conflict De-escalation Training VR: Practical strategies for responding to aggressive or confrontational situations.
- Online Strategies for Taming Stress – Awareness: Recognising stress triggers and developing healthier coping strategies.
- Online Workplace Ergonomics Awareness: Improving workspace comfort, safety and ergonomic awareness.
- Workplace Health & Safety Culture: Understanding and developing a positive workplace health and safety culture.
These courses address different aspects of workplace wellbeing, allowing businesses to choose training relevant to their teams.
Employers can reduce work-related stress and burnout by identifying the workplace conditions contributing to them and taking practical steps to manage those risks.
This may include reviewing excessive workloads, improving communication, providing appropriate support, clarifying job expectations and addressing workplace conflict.
Safety 'n Action's Online Strategies for Taming Stress – Awareness course helps individuals recognise stress triggers and develop practical coping strategies. However, individual stress management training should complement, rather than replace, organisational measures to address the causes of workplace stress.
This may include reviewing excessive workloads, improving communication, providing appropriate support, clarifying job expectations and addressing workplace conflict.
Safety 'n Action's Online Strategies for Taming Stress – Awareness course helps individuals recognise stress triggers and develop practical coping strategies. However, individual stress management training should complement, rather than replace, organisational measures to address the causes of workplace stress.
Psychosocial safety training focuses on identifying and managing workplace conditions that may cause psychological or physical harm, such as excessive workloads, bullying, conflict and poor workplace culture.
Mental health awareness training generally focuses on improving understanding of mental health, recognising signs of distress and encouraging supportive conversations.
Both can contribute to healthier workplaces, but psychosocial risk management specifically addresses the employer's responsibility to identify and control work-related risks under New Zealand health and safety legislation.
Mental health awareness training generally focuses on improving understanding of mental health, recognising signs of distress and encouraging supportive conversations.
Both can contribute to healthier workplaces, but psychosocial risk management specifically addresses the employer's responsibility to identify and control work-related risks under New Zealand health and safety legislation.
Conflict de-escalation training helps employees recognise escalating behaviour, communicate effectively during difficult interactions and respond more safely to confrontational situations.
Safety 'n Action's Conflict De-escalation Training VR course uses virtual reality as part of its face-to-face training experience, helping learners develop strategies for managing challenging situations.
This training is particularly relevant to customer-facing and frontline workers who may encounter verbal aggression, threats or confrontational behaviour. Employers must also manage workplace violence risks through appropriate procedures and controls.
Safety 'n Action's Conflict De-escalation Training VR course uses virtual reality as part of its face-to-face training experience, helping learners develop strategies for managing challenging situations.
This training is particularly relevant to customer-facing and frontline workers who may encounter verbal aggression, threats or confrontational behaviour. Employers must also manage workplace violence risks through appropriate procedures and controls.
Yes. Safety 'n Action offers online workplace wellbeing training that allows employees to develop practical knowledge without attending a traditional classroom session.
Its Online Strategies for Taming Stress – Awareness course focuses on recognising stress triggers, developing healthier coping habits and managing everyday stress.
Online Workplace Ergonomics Awareness is another available option, helping workers understand how their workspace can affect comfort and physical wellbeing.
Its Online Strategies for Taming Stress – Awareness course focuses on recognising stress triggers, developing healthier coping habits and managing everyday stress.
Online Workplace Ergonomics Awareness is another available option, helping workers understand how their workspace can affect comfort and physical wellbeing.
Businesses can improve workplace health and safety culture by encouraging open communication, involving employees in safety decisions, supporting respectful behaviour and ensuring leaders demonstrate a genuine commitment to worker wellbeing.
A positive safety culture helps employees feel more comfortable reporting hazards, raising concerns and participating in workplace improvements.
Safety 'n Action's Workplace Health & Safety Culture course supports learning about workplace safety culture and includes content preparing learners for NZQA Unit Standard 30266.
A positive safety culture helps employees feel more comfortable reporting hazards, raising concerns and participating in workplace improvements.
Safety 'n Action's Workplace Health & Safety Culture course supports learning about workplace safety culture and includes content preparing learners for NZQA Unit Standard 30266.
Psychosocial safety and wellbeing training is relevant to employers, managers, supervisors, HR professionals, health and safety representatives, frontline employees and anyone exposed to workplace stress or conflict.
Different roles may benefit from different training. Managers may need a stronger understanding of workplace risk management and safety culture, while frontline workers may benefit from conflict de-escalation training. Employees experiencing everyday workplace pressures may find stress awareness training useful.
Safety 'n Action offers several courses covering these different workplace wellbeing needs.
Different roles may benefit from different training. Managers may need a stronger understanding of workplace risk management and safety culture, while frontline workers may benefit from conflict de-escalation training. Employees experiencing everyday workplace pressures may find stress awareness training useful.
Safety 'n Action offers several courses covering these different workplace wellbeing needs.
Safety 'n Action provides psychosocial safety and wellbeing courses for New Zealand workplaces, with online and face-to-face training options.
The course range covers workplace stress awareness, conflict de-escalation, ergonomics and health and safety culture.
Whether you are an employer looking to support your workforce or an individual wanting to improve your workplace wellbeing knowledge, Safety 'n Action offers training options designed around practical workplace challenges.
The course range covers workplace stress awareness, conflict de-escalation, ergonomics and health and safety culture.
Whether you are an employer looking to support your workforce or an individual wanting to improve your workplace wellbeing knowledge, Safety 'n Action offers training options designed around practical workplace challenges.