The purpose of this qualification is to provide New Zealand workplaces with people that have the skills, knowledge, and attributes to promote, monitor, and improve health and safety practices.

Graduates will have in-depth skills, knowledge, and attributes of health and safety practice in the workplace. Graduates may apply these skills in supervisory roles across a wide range of fields.

Graduates will benefit New Zealand workplaces, the community, and their whānau by promoting, and contributing to, health and safety in the workplace.

This qualification is designed for people who have, or are intending to have a workplace health and safety function as part of their primary job role.

Graduates of this qualification will be able to:

- Implement, supervise, monitor, and communicate legislative, industry, organisational and job specific health and safety requirements and systems, within a team in the workplace.
- Utilise leadership and communication skills to promote a proactive health and safety culture within a team in the New Zealand workplace.
- Implement health and safety risk management processes, including hazard identification and mitigation measures, for a team in the workplace.
- Explain the impact of work- related ill health and injuries on a specific business operation and the wider industry, and recommend improvements for a team in the workplace.

This qualification builds on the New Zealand Certificate in Workplace Health and Safety Practice (Level 3) [Ref: 3533].

The qualification is recommended as a minimum requirement for entry to the New Zealand Diploma in Workplace Health and Safety Management (Level 6) [Ref: 3645].

Programmes must reflect the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015, its regulations and any subsequent amendments.

Programmes contextualised for a specific industry, must incorporate any industry specific approved codes of practice, safe work instruments and/or guidelines and standards into that programme.