Workplace Health & Safety Planning
This course explains how effective health and safety planning reduces costs and increases productivity, and how organisations can plan to systematically improve their health and safety performance.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Topic
- Foundation
- Next session
- 12 Nov 2026 · 2 dates
At a glance
Course details
Duration: 1 day
Unit Standard:
| Unit # | Name | Level | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25042 | Prepare a workplace health and safety improvement plan using data analysis and productivity measures | 3 | 4 |
Overview
Workplace Health & Safety Planning course overview
Curriculum
What you'll cover
This course is designed for:
- Health and safety practitioners who need to turn incident and hazard information into practical planning priorities.
- Health and safety representatives who support workplace improvement activity and want a clearer planning process.
- Supervisors and managers responsible for setting priorities, following through on actions, and explaining why health and safety planning matters.
- People involved in injury prevention, hazard management, or wider workplace health and safety improvement work.
Our approach
+IMPAC's Workplace Health & Safety Planning training approach
Format
Course format and duration
Upcoming sessions
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Frequently asked questions
This course is best suited to supervisors, managers, health and safety practitioners, and health and safety representatives involved in planning workplace improvements. It is especially useful for people who need to review incident and hazard information, identify patterns, and decide what should be prioritised next.
Organisations need people who can plan work safely, identify risks, and support practical health and safety management processes. While workplace health and safety planning training is not specifically prescribed as a mandatory course, it is commonly used to strengthen planning capability, risk management, and workplace safety systems.
Yes, learners need written and spoken English equivalent to NCEA Level 1 (Year 11) or an IELTS score of 5.5 or higher. If a learner may need additional support, please contact our team before enrolment to discuss available support options.
Yes. This course is available live online via Zoom, as a public course, and through in-house delivery. This gives organisations flexibility depending on whether they need individual enrolments or workplace-based training for teams.
The course runs for 1 day, allowing learners to work through workplace health and safety planning, practical risk controls, and how health and safety plans are implemented and maintained in day-to-day operations.
Yes, this course includes one assessment for NZQA Unit Standard 25042, covering workplace health and safety planning requirements.
This course covers NZQA Unit Standard 25042, which relates to workplace health and safety planning processes.
Learners will be able to review incident and hazard information, identify trends and recurring issues, and build a workplace health and safety improvement plan. This supports clearer priorities, more informed decision-making, and better alignment between planning and safer work practices.
Yes, this course can be delivered in-house either face-to-face or online. In-house training can help organisations build more consistent approaches to workplace health and safety planning, responsibilities, and risk management processes.
Please bring a driver’s licence or another form of photo identification to training.
If you are completing an online or eLearning course with IMPAC for the first time, you will receive your LMS login details within 24 hours of receiving your course instructions email.
You can access IMPAC’s LMS by clicking here.
You can reset your username and password by clicking here and entering your email address.
Pricing depends on the delivery method.
In-house: $3950 + GST for up to 12 persons, with additional persons charged at $255 + GST each (maximum of 16).
Public (Online): $395 + GST per person.
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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).
This course is a elective module within the programme, allowing you to build on your existing training while working towards a recognised qualification over time. Browse all Foundation training courses.
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.
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