HEALTH AND SAFETY —
Supervisor training cashback offer for construction workers ACC helps prevent injuries and get New Zealanders and visitors back to everyday life after they’ve had an accident. Our vision is to create a unique partnership with every New Zealander, improving their quality of life by minimising the incidence and impact of injury, and ensure workers go home safe to their whanau at the end of each day. Everyone in New Zealand who works and owns a business pays levies. The levies you pay provide cover for all employees if someone’s injured. ACC works with businesses to help manage employee injuries, while rewarding safer workplaces. ACC offers a range of cashback offers to businesses who would like to make health and safety improvements in their workplace. If your business is working in construction and has six to 99 employees, you might be eligible for a workplace injury prevention cashback offer to help pay for selected Supervisor Health and Safety Training for site leaders. ACC is offering up 50% cashback on the Leadsafe Supervisor or the SiteSafe Supervisor training courses, which start from $435 (inc GST) for a two-day course. The ACC cashback offer will vary depending on the size of your business. The key skills that site leaders can develop through the training courses are: • role model the desired skills, safety attitudes and behaviours required on-site including with sub-contractors • develop good communication skills that will enable the participant to have effective safety conversations • positively influence and rectify inappropriate behaviours • effectively use the safety tools and systems such as hazard management, risk identification and assessment, and incident investigations to get better work outcomes • clearly understand roles and responsibilities as a safety leader and be proactively involved in the management of safety on-site, every day
If you would like more information about this cashback offer and where to book the training, visit www.acc.co.nz/trainingcashback or go to the ACC website and type ‘construction training’. You can also log on or register for MyACC for Business at www. business.acc.co.nz to check if you’re eligible and apply.
• proactively assess safety risk and drive safe attitudes and working methods.
Paul Gimblett is the Head of Workplace Safety and Levies and has worked at ACC for 14 years. He manages a team that partner with many organisations to improve workplace health and safety, and ultimately reduce workplace injury. Paul is passionate about reducing the impact that injury has on families and businesses in New Zealand.
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