Question 1

Who should attend this course?

Accepted Answer

This course is best suited to Chief Executives, executive managers, senior managers, and other senior leaders with influence over health and safety performance. It is especially useful for people responsible for setting expectations, reviewing critical risks, and testing whether health and safety systems are working in practice. That makes it relevant wherever leadership decisions influence operational risk.

Question 2

Is safety leadership training mandatory for executives in New Zealand?

Accepted Answer

Executives and senior leaders need to understand their health and safety responsibilities well enough to exercise due diligence and support effective risk management within the organisation. While this specific course is not prescribed as mandatory under New Zealand law, executive health and safety training is commonly used to strengthen leadership capability, governance oversight, and informed decision-making.

Question 3

Do participants need prior health and safety training?

Accepted Answer

No prior health and safety training is required for this course. It is designed for executive leaders who need a clearer understanding of their role in health and safety, even if they have not completed technical safety training before. Familiarity with your organisation’s current risks and reporting will help provide useful context for the discussion.

Question 4

Is the course available as a public course or only in-house?

Accepted Answer

This course is currently available for in-house delivery only. In-house training can help executive teams build a more consistent understanding of leadership responsibilities, critical risk oversight, and organisational health and safety performance.

Question 5

How long does the course take?

Accepted Answer

The course runs for half a day, allowing executive teams to work through leadership responsibilities, critical risk concepts, and the key questions leaders should be asking about health and safety performance.

Question 6

What will executives learn in the workshop?

Accepted Answer

Executives learn how to lead health and safety more confidently and effectively within their organisation. The workshop covers HSWA duties, health and safety culture, hazard and risk management concepts, incident causation, and the use of performance indicators. The focus is on helping leaders ask better questions, interpret what they are seeing more critically, and support stronger health and safety decision-making across the business.

Question 7

What is the cost of this course?

Accepted Answer

In-house: $4950 + GST for up to 12 persons.

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