Health and Safety - Basics for HR

This interactive online course strengthens your organisation’s health and safety capability by giving leaders clear guidance on their legal responsibilities.

Learn how to build safer workplaces through effective health and safety systems that support compliance and reduce harm.

Course Overview

Effective health and safety management is vital for organisational success. It creates safer workplaces, lowers injury-related costs, and supports stronger productivity. 

Without health and safety compliance, organisations face increased legal, financial, and operational risks.

HR professionals and managers play a key role in ensuring their organisations meet responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.

This virtual half-day course equips HR and managers with essential skills to build safer workplaces using simple, effective frameworks and practical tools. 

This course gives leaders clear guidance on identifying hazards, managing risks, and putting practical health and safety systems into place. We will cover core health and safety foundations including a PCBU’s duties and responsibilities, hazard identification, risk assessment, worker engagement, incident reporting, and psychological safety.

Participants will learn the key components of a basic health and safety system and how to apply tools such as risk registers, improvement plans, and monitoring processes. Templates, examples, and checklists will be provided for immediate use after the course.

Our employment lawyer will provide expert guidance on meeting legal duties and reducing exposure to WorkSafe investigations and personal grievances.

We will address key questions such as: What must officers, managers, and workers do to keep people safe?  How can HR and managers evaluate risks and respond effectively to incidents? What does psychological safety mean in practice?

What to expect

Join employment lawyer Julia Shallcrass for an interactive half-day course focused on strengthening workplace health and safety through practical frameworks and clear legal guidance.

You will learn how effective systems reduce costs, prevent injuries, and support stronger organisational performance. Participants gain practical insights into how positive health and safety practices improve wellbeing and productivity across the organisation.

Who is this course for?

This course is ideal for HR and People and Culture professionals in their first five years of practice, as well as managers, supervisors, and team leaders responsible for workplace safety. Anyone involved in wellbeing or risk management will benefit from the practical tools and guidance provided.

Participants leave with clear steps to meet health and safety duties, reduce legal risk, and support safer, more productive workplaces.

Virtual Fee (includes GST):

HRNZ Member = $368.00

Non-member = $437.00

Feel free to email [email protected] if you need any assistance.

This course is limited to 25 attendees and will be delivered virtually via Zoom.

All personal development events are subject to HRNZ Terms and Conditions.

Registrations close 12:00pm Thursday 12 February unless sold out prior.

Cancellation Policy

An appropriate substitute participant is welcome any time before the course starts. Please let us know the replacement’s name. If you have booked on a member price and a non member is to attend in your place you will be invoiced for the difference in price.

A refund of fees will be made if a cancellation is received in writing at least 10 working days prior to the commencement of the course.

Regrettably, no refunds can be made for cancellations received after this date and you are liable for the full cost of attendance at the course.