Safety Training for all of New Zealand Safety training is vital to the safe and smooth operation of a workplace. Training 4 Safety, a Northland company, has made this their mission, in their quest to deliver and share safety training in order to educate and empower everyone to always be safe at home, work, and play. Training 4 Safety is a customer focused business with a friendly and professional approach to Safety Training. They provide training throughout all of New Zealand through their Online Training platform and deliver Face-2-Face courses in Northland and Auckland. Training 4 Safety was launched in 2016 when Mike Lindsay, Founder and Managing Director of Building & Fire Services (2008) Limited, found a need for safety training in the Whangarei and Northland communities, where the company is currently based. He began delivering training through Building & Fire Services, but discovered that side of the business was already wellknown in the Northland community for their Fire Safety and Compliance, and decided it would be more successful to deliver the safety
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training through a separate division, which is how Training 4 Safety came to exist! When it comes to safety training, it’s not just about ticking the health and safety box, and “one size fits all” has no place. It’s so important that people are learning what is truly relevant to them and their industry. Training 4 Safety believes that training should be tailor-made and delivered after deciding what the specific needs are for the people and companies they are working with. Their training focuses on competency-based methods. Competency-based training ensures the trainee is truly ready to go out into the workplace and confident in the fact they have had practical training by experienced trainers. This learning method allows a student to learn the individual skills they find challenging at their own pace, practicing and refining as much as they like. Competency-based safety training is also effective because it isn’t limited to a written test or answering multiple choice questions. Learners can perform various tasks and simulations to demonstrate
familiarity with the material, or to help them to recognise what would be expected of them in their real work environment. This competency-based training method applies to both online and face-to-face training. All courses that Training 4 Safety present faceto-face can be completed online. The online training system allows staff/students an alternative – but still effective – way of completing a specific course. Training 4 Safety has collaborated with a number of businesses nationwide from a variety of industries, such as early-childhood, elder-care and retirement villages, marine, and machinery/industrial, through their online training platform. The online courses can be specifically developed and branded to each company and rolled out to their staff, so they can keep the training in-house. Training 4 Safety understands that in some cases, Unit Standards are required to achieve a trade qualification or other tertiary studies. They have listened to the industry needs, and the resounding opinion is
