Contractor Health and Safety

Course Aim
This course is designed for If you are in business and contract people or businesses to do work for you, then you will have duties as a principal under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015. Putting work out to contract doesn’t remove your health and safety obligations and is therefore not the “easy option”. You cannot pass on a legal duty that falls on you as an employer, a person in control of a place of work, or a principal in terms of the Act.

Course Overview
Theory lessons covering the following: 

• The HSWA Act, an overview
• Application of law to contractors in the workplace
• Extent of Duty
• Who is a Principal?
• Agents and Advisors
• Person who controls a place of work
• Overview of process for contractor engagement
• Scoping the work
• Contractor Selection
• Monitoring the contract

NZQA Unit Standard
Non-unit standard based learning

Attendance Numbers: Minimum of 3, maximum of 15 per session

Course Duration: Approx. 5 hours

Course Location: TBC

 Course Cost: $400.00+gst

Mileage: $120.00+gst per day fee to Auckland, Hamilton & Tauranga and &1+gst per km beyond

(Minimum number charges will be applied if minimum numbers not met)