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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 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 that there needs to be more options. So even though their focus is on competency-based training, they have aligned with a professional Private Training Establishment to deliver their courses as Unit Standards, offering the best of both worlds!
Over the past couple of years, Training 4 Safety has grown immensely. They deliver an extensive range of training, varying from fire safety and emergency management, through to working at heights, confined spaces, hot work and workplace safety awareness, just to name a few, with plans to add more exciting courses! With this growth, the need for a new training space developed.
Training 4 Safety is currently in the process of building a brand-new safety training school. They will have a state-of-the-art training space, where theoretical and practical training can take place. The space will consist of many different training areas, such as training rooms for theoretical seminars, and an area where the practical classes will take place, such as heights, scaffolding and ladder safety.
Additionally, there will be a training simulator, with courses such as Breathing Apparatus, Confined Spaces and Hazardous Atmospheres, and Emergency Warden will be carried out in. It can be used to simulate real-life emergency events, such as a fire, missing person, gas monitoring, or dangerous intruder, and is similar to what fire-fighters use in their own training. These spaces give Training 4 Safety the opportunity to deliver more engaging training methods, with the use of real equipment, scenarios, and environments.
Training 4 Safety’s goals is to create more courses, which would include enhancing delivery methods and setting up training models that could be utilised around other parts of the country, so clients using their Online Training nationwide can experience their innovative Face-2- Face courses too!
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Phone: 09 430 0498
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