Study Health & Safety at SIT

Health and Safety courses at SIT Whether you're already in a health and safety role, or you're looking to enter the industry, a qualification in Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) will teach you skills and knowledge that are directly relevant to working or further training in this industry. Health & Safety graduates are able to demonstrate knowledge of occupational health and safety systems, practices and programmes, and have evaluated, planned, developed and implemented them into a workplace.

Graduating students could go on to employment as:

Health and safety co-coordinators / officers / representatives / advisors
OSH investigators
Production supervisors
Training co-ordinators
Occupational safety and health roles through the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.
Human Resource staff

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Available Courses

Available Courses in

SIT2LRN Distance Learning
Auckland

Profiles

# Graduate, Health & Safety, SITuation Magazine

It’s often the role at work that not many people are willing to take on: the office health and safety rep.

Brook Rush

New Zealand Diploma in Workplace Health and Safety (Level 6) graduate

# Graduate, SIT2LRN, Health & Safety, Pasifika

Once a high school drop-out and mother at 17, Courtenay Hurt-Suwan now owns her own business and is considering pursuing a PhD in 2021.

Courtenay Hurt-Suwan

Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety Management

# SIT2LRN, Health & Safety

For SIT2LRN graduate Richard Yardley, health and safety isn’t just about creating good plans and processes, it’s also personal.

Richard Yardley

Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety (Level 6)

# Health & Safety, Community Newsletter

As a niche provider of health and safety management programmes for students throughout New Zealand, SIT was delighted that the Health and Safety Association of New Zealand (HASANZ) awarded two of...

SIT students awarded inaugural HASANZ scholarships

Age is no barrier when it comes to education says recent Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety graduate John Frampton. For the past 18 months, he has been working on a new Health and Safety...

John Frampton

Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety

“When I read the course outline for the Diploma in OSH I saw it could benefit me greatly, because although I have years of experience implementing, auditing, maintaining and monitoring...

Jan McDonald

Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety

Mark Devantiar returned to New Zealand after a stint working in Australia. His current role is with Fonterra as the Health and Safety Risk and Assurance Manager for New Zealand operations.

Mark Devantier

SIT2LRN Facilitator in Occupational Health & Safety