Health & Safety Leadership for Workers

This course provides workers with practical knowledge, confidence, and skills to support their team and organisation in improving workplace health and safety.

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1 day
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Leadership
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At a glance

Course details

Duration: 1 day

Overview

Health & Safety Leadership for Workers course overview

Assuming health and safety is someone else’s responsibility is where things start to break down. When workers walk past a hazard thinking “it’s not my job,” or when unsafe behaviour is ignored because no one wants to step in, risks can quickly escalate. Health and safety is everyone’s responsibility, and it relies on people being willing to act, speak up, and challenge what doesn’t look right. This Health & Safety Leadership for Workers course is designed to give learners the knowledge and confidence to actively contribute to a safer workplace.
 
This course is practical and engaging, without relying on dry, lecture-style delivery. Facilitated by experienced trainers, it focuses on building real capability through activities and group discussion. Participants develop the skills to identify hazards, understand risk, and contribute to incident reporting and investigations. The course also explores how incidents occur, what their responsibilities are under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015, and how they can positively influence the behaviour of those around them.
 
IMPAC’s focus is on supporting workers to play an active role in maintaining a safe work environment. Participants leave with a clear understanding of how they can contribute, the confidence to speak up, and the tools to challenge the status quo when something doesn’t feel right. Your workers step back onto the site equipped to take ownership of safety, support their team, and help ensure everyone goes home safe.

Curriculum

What you'll cover

This course is designed for:
  • Workers involved in health and safety who need a practical understanding of how to contribute day to day.
  • Team leaders who need to reinforce safe behaviour and support worker participation on the ground.
  • Frontline workers who are expected to identify hazards, respond to risks, and speak up when something is not right.
  • Organisations that want workers to take a more active role in incident prevention, reporting, and safer work practices.

Our approach

+IMPAC's Health & Safety Leadership for Workers training approach

This course is delivered as practical, discussion-led training rather than a long lecture. Learners work through realistic workplace scenarios and examples that show how hazards are identified, how risks build when concerns are ignored, and what effective worker participation looks like in everyday operations.
 
Facilitators use guided discussion, group activities, and practical exercises to connect HSWA 2015 duties with the choices people make at work. The emphasis stays on keeping the learning relevant and applied, helping learners recognise where things commonly go wrong and how worker participation supports safer day-to-day work.

Format

Course format and duration

This course is delivered over one day.
 
Training is available face-to-face nationwide or live online via Zoom for in-house delivery.

Upcoming sessions

Public courses – Book now

There are no public sessions scheduled at this time. Please contact us to arrange in-house training or to be notified when new dates are available.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

This course is best suited to workers involved in health and safety and team leaders needing to play an active part in safer work practices. It is useful for people wanting more confidence in identifying hazards, understanding risk, speaking up, and contributing to incident reporting or investigations. It is also relevant for organisations wanting stronger worker participation across everyday operations.

Workers need the appropriate information, training, and support to work safely and contribute to workplace health and safety. While this course is not specifically required for every role, many organisations use leadership training to strengthen worker participation, hazard awareness, communication, and day-to-day safety behaviours.

The course runs for 1 day, allowing learners to work through worker health and safety responsibilities, participation expectations, hazard awareness, and practical workplace health and safety behaviours.

Learners cover worker duties under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015, hazard identification, risk management, incident causation, and how to contribute to a positive health and safety culture. The course focuses on the practical side of workplace health and safety: recognising hazards, understanding why they matter, and knowing what action to take next. It also helps learners understand how their actions influence the safety performance of the wider team.

IMPAC recommends organisations revisit worker health and safety leadership training regularly to help maintain participation, hazard awareness, and safe everyday work practices. Refresher training may be particularly useful when roles change, new hazards are introduced, incidents highlight gaps, or organisations want workers to reconnect with current risk controls and workplace expectations.

Yes, this course is available for in-house delivery nationwide. In-house training can help organisations build stronger worker participation, communication, and shared understanding of workplace health and safety responsibilities.

In-house: $4750 + GST for up to 12 persons, with additional persons charged at $349 + GST each (maximum of 16).

Continue learning

Further study options

If you’re continuing your learning journey in health and safety, this course can contribute towards IMPAC’s Certificate in Applied Workplace Health and Safety Practices (Level 3), which leads to the New Zealand Certificate in Workplace Health and Safety Practice (Level 3).

To learn more about the programme and enrol click the Leadership category.

This programme is approved by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority under section 439 of the Education and Training Act 2020, and Impac Services Limited is accredited to provide it under section 441 of the Education and Training Act.

What's next

Next steps

To get started, you can book now.
 
To explore more courses in this area, see the Leadership category.
 
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