Senior Health and Safety Leadership Development Programme

3 days ago


Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Healthandsafety Full time

About the Role

The Officer Development Programme at Healthandsafety is a comprehensive professional development initiative designed for senior leaders in public service agencies. This programme focuses on building leaders' understanding of their role and duties as officers under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.

The purpose of this programme is to equip leaders with the knowledge and skills necessary to identify and manage critical risks, including psychosocial harm, and differentiate between management and governance roles. By participating in this programme, leaders can enhance their capability to assure the identification and management of risks and develop effective prevention and mitigation controls.

This programme has been recognised for its excellence, winning the Governance category at the 2021 SafeGuard Workplace Health and Safety Awards. The programme includes nine hours of in-person workshops, supplemented by pre-and post-course e-learning modules, reading materials, resources, tools, and case studies tailored for the public sector.

Key Topics Covered

  • Managing, Leading, and Governing Health & Safety: An overview of the three roles and perspectives, including leadership behaviours and practices.
  • Health and Safety Risk Management: Understanding the risk landscape, implementing effective prevention and mitigation controls, and owning your risk matrix.
  • Overlapping Duties: Identifying and managing overlapping duties, particularly in the public sector's wider role in policy setting, standard setting, system ownership/funding.
  • Monitoring What Matters: Setting meaningful KPIs, data, insights, reporting, and information management systems.

Who Can Attend?

This programme is essential for all Tier 1 and 2 Senior Leaders, as well as GM's People & Capability and Tier 3 Leaders wanting to take on more senior roles. Public service agencies can register via the GHSL at a discounted rate of $1,380 + GST per person.

Investment and Course Details

A minimum of 18 participants are required to run a course, with a maximum of 24. In-house options are also available. Upcoming courses include Managing, leading, and governing health and safety; and H&S Risk Management, Overlapping duties; and Monitoring what matters.



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