Health and Safety

• Health and Safety Representative Training

• Worksafe Reps website 

• Workplace Injury Advocacy Service

• Workers Memorial Day

• ACC Partnership Programme Update

WANTING TO ATTEND A HEALTH AND SAFETY REPRESENTATIVE TRAINING COURSE?

You will need to fill out the Expression of Interest form for Health and Safety Training - please click here.

The information that we will require to process your registration is as follows: Name, Address, Date of Birth, Contact Details, Employer Name, Employers ACC number, Employers CU Code (Classification Unit Number), Employer Contact Details.

Click on the thumbnail below to see all details required. 

Thank you for taking the time to complete this form. This will assist our Training Co-ordinators to schedule courses and ensure that Health and Safety Representatives are trained in a timely manner.

Update from NZCTU regarding ACC funded Health and Safety Training.  

New Zealand Council of Trade Unions – Te Kauae Kaimahi is the leading provider of Health and Safety Representative training in New Zealand.  NZ Council of Trade Unions has a long history of working on economic, social development and health and safety issues.  We have been delivering health and safety representative training since 2003, and are currently the largest providers of this training in New Zealand.  We have developed health and safety representative course materials for stages 1, 2 and 3.  These courses have been approved under part 19G (1) and 46A of the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992. Our reach extends to employers and workers across New Zealand and in a wide range of industries, through our existing membership base; training is offered in both metropolitan and provincial centres. We offer the following advantages:

• A network of professional trainers across New Zealand;
• Proven experience in achieving good outcomes through training and training across all three levels of training;
• The ability to consolidate learning through workplace union networks and onsite support;
• Existing close working relationship with the ACC and the Department of Labour, as the prime government agencies working in this area;
• An understanding of the importance of excellence in health and safety practices at workplaces in the context of the need to build modern competitive workplace organisations based on a commitment to workplace and workforce development.

Please note that there are strict criteria around eligibility for this funding which is only available for active health and safety representatives (not managers).  Priority will be given to H&S reps who work in ACC’s key industry sectors: Agriculture, Construction, Forestry, Residential Care, Manufacturing (all areas) and Road Freight Transport.

For a list of the qualifying classification codes (PCU) please

• Stage One (PDF doc 79kb)
• Stage Two (PDF doc 28kb)
• Stage Three (PDF doc 29kb)

For further queries contact our Health and Safety Team Manager , Monica O'Connell.

Below are the key industry classification codes:

For further queries send a message to our Communications Officer 

Workplace Injury Advocacy Service

• Are you a union member?
• Have you suffered an injury that affects your ability to work?
• Do you need help to access ACC?
• If you answered yes to all 3 questions click here to find out what the Workplace Injury Advocacy Service can do for you.

Click here for more information.

Workers Memorial Day, April 28 2010

Workers’ Memorial Day is the day when we “mourn for the dead, but fight for the living”, drawing attention to the plight of the hundreds of New Zealand workers who still die every year as a result of their work.                                              
The memorial day also serves as a reminder that the workplace can be a hostile environment towards a worker’s health and safety. It should also remind us that there can never be enough laws and safeguards protecting workers’ health and safety and that we need to continue the fight to strengthen those laws.  

Unions will be focusing on education and organising around health and safety. We will also be demanding accountability from employers who refuse to meet their obligations to provide a healthy and safe workplace.

Remembering the dead, fighting for the living...  (photos on the CTU Flickr site)  

ACC Partnership programme newsletter December 2009

Update for Union officials, Delegates, H&S reps who are involved with the ACC Partnership Programme - otherwise known as the Accredited Employers Programme (AEP).