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The courses listed below are being held at 15 locations throughout the country. Interested parties - employers and unions - should contact the following regional organisations for more detail. Each course is available to any employer, and any employee by nomination and/or agreement.
Contact Details
EMA (Northern) 0800 800 362
E-mail: ema@ema.co.nz
EMA (Central) 04 473 7224
E-mail: training@emacentral.org.nz
Canterbury Employers' Chamber of Commerce
03 366 5096 E-mail: info@cecc.org.nz
Otago Southland Employers' Association Inc
0508 656 757 E-mail: maree@osea.org.nz
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Training for Health and Safety Representatives |
Contact: Tony Ward 04 470-9939 tonyw@emacentral.org.nz |
This two-day course has been developed for actual and aspirant health and safety representatives, and provides recently elected or appointed individuals with “start-up” knowledge and skills.
The overall purpose of the training is to provide initial support for representatives in a new and unfamiliar workplace role. The programme also supports longer term training needs through the preparation by participants of an on-going development plan for future learning based on the needs of the position and their current skills sets.
All participants receive training focused on the specific information, knowledge and skills needed by the Health and Safety representatives in their day-to-day activities, including:
- Promoting successful management of health and safety issues, through the systems and practices adopted in their workplace
- Fostering good faith co-operation between their constituents
- Facilitating constructive input from those doing the work, through employee participation processes
- Meeting the objectives of relevant employment statutes especially:
- Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992, as amended
- Employment Relations Act 2000
- IPRC Act 2001
- Other relevant legislation affecting health and safety.
- Opportunities for assessment of skills
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First approved:
23/10/2003
Subsequent approval: 05/04/2007 |
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Training for Health and Safety Representatives Stage 2 |
Contact: Colleen Lambourne - email:colleenl@emacentral.org.nz |
The two day course is intended primarily for existing H&S representatives, (but is also open to frontline managers, supervisors and team leaders) with basic knowledge of the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 and related legislation as it applies to their workplace. The course delivers training relating to three NZQA unit standards, but with a focus on practical day-today issues. Each course consists of two core modules on day one, followed by a choice for participants on day two of modules focussing on workplace or manufacturing hazards. |
First approved: 05/08/2005
Subsequent approval: |
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| A Guide to Minimum Employment Conditions in New Zealand |
| The purpose of this course is to teach participants about the minimum employment conditions in NZ. |
First approved: 14/06/2001
Subsequent approval: 19/06/2003
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| Health and Safety in the Workplace |
Includes:
- Rights and responsibilities of employees and employers
- Risk and hazard management
- Assessing health and safety performance
- Complaint issues
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First approved: 14/06/2001
Subsequent approval: 19/6/2003 |
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| Inducting New Employees |
The aim of this two hour course is to teach employers a quick practical guide to the key issues involved in employing staff, and in ensuring that their introduction to the workplace enables them to become effective employees and contributors as quickly as possible.
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First approved: 17/02/2002
Subsequent approval: 09/03/2005 |
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| Stage 3 Advanced Training for Health and Safety representatives |
| Contact: Colleen Lambourne - email colleen@emacentral.org.nz |
This two day course has been developed by the NZCTU, Business NZ and ACC. The course is for experienced Health and Safety Representatives.
The aim of this course is to assist health and safety representatives to work effectively in their role.
In particular the course aims to assist the representative to:
- foster positive health and safety management practices in the place of work
- identify and bring to the employer’s attention hazards in the place of work and discuss with the employer ways that the hazards may be dealt with.
- communicate effectively with employers
- represent the views of employees.
The course also aims to assist the representative to fulfil their role in promoting the interests of employees who have been harmed at work, including arrangements for employees’ rehabilitation and return to work.
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First approved:18/01/2007
Subsequent approval: |
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| Creating a Great Place to Work: Course 1 Attracting Good People |
| Contact: Lynn Harris 04 470-9889 lynnh@emacentral.org.nz |
A one-day course aimed at:
- Encouraging participants to enhance their existing employment practices so that they are more employee focused.
- Helping participants build recruitment and employment relations processes that reflect the values and culture of the enterprise and best practice
- Educating participants about the need to deal with prospective employees in good faith and focus on common interest and shared values
- Providing an opportunity for participants to identify personal development and training opportunities that could be made available to employees
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First approved:23/02/2007
Subsequent approval: |
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| Creating a Great Place to Work: Course 2 Sharing the Vision: Values and Leadership |
| Contact: Lynn Harris 04 470-9889 lynnh@emacentral.org.nz |
A one day course, aimed to:
- Provide participants with an opportunity to debate the qualities and values an effective leader should display
- Explore the merits of different communication processes that contribute to building effective teams
- Consider effective ways to involve employees in decision making in their workplace
- Emphasise the need to develop new leaders and key individuals
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First approved:23/02/2007
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| Creating a Great Place to Work: Course 3 Opportunities to Grow and Develop |
| Contact: Lynn Harris 04 470-9889 lynnh@emacentral.org.nz |
A one-day course, aimed to:
- Educate participants in the value of personal development plans to help employees achieve greater job satisfaction
- Promote and reinforce the value of flexible working arrangements that accommodate an employee’s individual circumstances
- Provide an opportunity for participants to debate work / life balance issues and how they might be applied in their workplace.
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First approved:23/02/2007
Subsequent approval: |
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This page was last updated on:
01-May-2007
and is current.
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