Advisory - H&S Generalist Job Family
This role may be a next step on the Career Pathway, or even your entry point. Working alongside a variety of different levels of H&S, from Supervisors to H&S Representatives and frontline workers, can be very rewarding.
Possible role titles include:
H&S Advisor or H&S Officer
What could you be doing in this role?
- You may be the first point of contact for initial H&S advice.
- You are likely to be involved in helping people, especially front-line staff, and supervisors to understand what needs to be done, and how to use H&S forms and documents in practice.
- Coaching and mentoring a variety of stakeholders to understand what “good looks like” and contributing to problem-solving that improves the workplace H&S environment and culture.
- Instrumental in, or part of the team, creating and delivering a variety of in-house H&S awareness training.
- Creating in-house H&S documentation (policies and procedures).
- Preparing initial analytical data for H&S performance reports.
Qualification
At this level it is expected that you will have a level 4 NZQA H&S qualification. You will also be a NZISM Practitioner and/or a NZSC Registered Safety Professional.
For information about accreditation and professional membership you can explore the resources below:
- Health and Safety Association of New Zealand (HASANZ): https://www.hasanz.org.nz/(external link)
- New Zealand Institute of Safety Management (NZISM): https://www.nzism.org/(external link)
- NZISM Pathways to Professional Accreditation: Pathways to Professional Accreditation(external link)
- New Zealand Safety Council (NZSC): https://www.safetycouncil.nz/(external link)
- The INSHPO Occupational Health and Safety Professional Capability Framework: INSHPO_2017_Capability_Framework_Final.pdf(external link)