NZQA Unit Standard 30266 - Demonstrate knowledge of workplace health and safety culture and practices.

This course is designed for students to understand workplace health and safety culture and practices, and how to communicate effectively about workplace health and safety.

Who should attend this course:

Health and safety representatives

Supervisors, team leaders, front-line managers, engineers, project managers, contract managers, designers, and anyone else who has a role to play in understanding health and safety culture within an organisation and communicating effectively about health and safety with others.

Key Learning Objectives

On successful completion, students will be able to:

• Describe healthy and safe practices in a workplace
• Describe reporting and documentation requirements in terms of workplace health and safety
• Describe the communication process in terms of health and safety practices in a workplace setting
• Describe workplace health and safety culture
• Define communication and understand basic models and theories of communication
• Identify a variety of communication media and methods
• Match media, method, message, and audience to achieve effective communication outcomes
• Explain specific issues when communicating about workplace health and safety
• Develop a workplace health and safety communication plan for a specific topic and audience.