Know what you need to manage — then build the right learning around your workforce.
A practical starting point for New Zealand construction and trades employers. Organise work risks, contractor responsibilities, worker training, competency, site requirements and useful evidence without having to search the whole NZQC library.
Employer knowledgeWorkforce learning
Tendering for work? Check your H&S evidence first.
See whether you can produce the health and safety records clients and principal contractors may ask for before you are under deadline pressure. This is an evidence-readiness check — not certification, a compliance score or a guarantee of prequalification.
Review your wider employer compliance approach
Work through a practical self-check covering site and critical risks, worker training and supervision, contractor coordination, emergency readiness and evidence. Results identify areas to review; they do not certify that a business is compliant.
Where should I start?
Follow these five steps in order if you are setting up or reviewing your workplace compliance approach. You can return here whenever you need to find your next step.
New here? Start at Step 1. Already managing a system? Jump to the step that matches what you need to work on today.
What do I need to manage?
Choose the area you need to work on. Each guide explains the manager responsibilities, gives you a practical Manager Check, then points you to workforce learning or evidence only where it is relevant.
Health, safety & risk
Manage changing site risks, incidents, plant and equipment, hazardous work and overlapping duties.
Open this area →People & employment records
Keep employment agreements, wage and time records, leave information and workforce records organised.
Open this area →Training & competency
Match training, licences, certifications and practical competency to the work each person performs.
Open this area →Privacy & worker information
Manage worker information, site records, access and appropriate sharing across contracting relationships.
Open this area →Contractors & site coordination
Coordinate overlapping duties, inductions, communication and responsibilities when multiple businesses share work.
Open this area →Records & evidence
Keep inductions, training, competency, licences, inspections and actions visible and reviewable.
Open this area →Not sure which one? Start with Health, Safety & Risk, then work across the six areas. You do not need to complete everything in one visit.
What do your workers need before they start the work?
Construction & Trades Learning Pathway
Choose induction, foundation safety, role/risk and task-specific learning that fits the work being performed.
Browse trades learning →Licences, competency & supervision
Check required licences or certifications and verify competency or supervision before higher-risk work begins.
Open competency framework →Individual courses
Open the Construction & Trades course catalogue when you already know which learning your worker needs.
Browse courses →