FACTSHEET - Site Safe

FACTSHEET
Electrical
Passport Course
The essential six-hour Passport for the electrical industry.
Who should attend this course? All Electricians (or those employed within the electrical industry)
who work on Commercial or Residential building sites:
• Registered Electrical Workers
• Non-Registered Electrical Workers
• Apprentices
• Technicians
• Contractors
• CEOs and General Managers
• Engineers
• Consultants
Why adopt the Passport for your site?
Site Safe has developed a Passport for the commercial and residential construction sectors. The Electrical
Passport is a six hour induction course designed to improve safety awareness and actions of everyone
working on a construction site and reflects the requirement by the Electrical Workers Registration Board
(EWRB) Refresher requirements. The aim of the induction course is to ensure no-one is endangering
themselves or their Workmates.
Not only has productivity and safety improved, over 140,000 New Zealand Construction Workers have
attained a common health and safety standard by completing a sector specific Passport course.
The majority of New Zealand’s large Main Contractors have become Site Safe Head of Agreement
Companies and have made the Electrical Passport a standard of entry to their sites. The Passport
requirement is integrated in the tender process where Specifiers make the Passport System a prerequisite
for those submitting a tender.
One of the main benefits of the Electrical Passport course is that it gets 15 Workers in a room where they
can discuss how they, together, can improve the safety culture on their sites.
The primary goals of Site Safe and the Passport course are to reduce accidents, injuries and deaths in the
construction sector. It is one practicable step that can be taken to ensure that all Workers coming onto a site
gain a basic understanding of their health and safety responsibilities.
Minimising everyday risks and hazards are key components of the Passport programme with particular
emphasis on how to take responsibility for your own safety; managing unsafe situations; reporting hazards
and potentially dangerous situations - before incidents and accidents happen.
The Electrical Passport course covers all the on-site, everyday hazards that you are likely to encounter and
discusses how you can do your job without taking safety shortcuts.
The course covers:
Consequences of Injuries. Trainees review a real life case study to understand the consequences of an
injury and how they could be avoided through the combined efforts of Workers and Employers.
Hazard Identification and Reporting. Discussion focuses on the importance of and how to identify and
report hazards, one of the most fundamental responsibilities of Employers and Employees. Employee
involvement in hazard identification and reporting has always been a fundamental area in changing the
safety culture of an industry, and this section covers activities including basic hazard identification tools
(Step Back 5 x 5, Seven Point Analysis and the Control Hierarchy).
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Training and Competency. This part of the course discusses the nature of safety training and competence, and will
help Trainees recognise when they need training and it will help them recognise when they are not trained or fully
competent to implement controls (such as using harnesses, dangerous plant, etc.) Trainees will understand when they
need to get further help from their Boss to avoid harm. There is also a practical Training Demonstration that helps
reinforce the levels of training and competence needed to avoid harm.
Construction Hazards and Controls. This section examines construction activities and the specific hazards and
required controls for each activity. Trainees work in groups and animated images are used to assist Trainees identify
the hazards and required controls associated with specific construction activities.
Construction activities discussed include:
Manual Material Handling
Health (including Physical and Biological
hazards)
Fire Prevention
Drugs and Alcohol
Electricity
Mechanical Plant (including Powder Powered Tools)
Mobile Plant
Excavations
Rigging
Ladders
Scaffolds and Harnesses
Improving safety knowledge
To ensure Participants are kept up-to-date with developments in health and safety, and to ensure their health and safety
knowledge continues to improve, Passport holders are required to complete a refresher course every two years.
Electrical Refresher Prescription. This section examines prescribed refresher activities and the specific hazards
and controls covered in legislation and codes of practice for the Electrical Industry.
First Aid / CPR Refresher. An external qualified First Aid / CPR Trainer will take Trainees through the prescribed
refresher activities and the specific requirements covered in legislation and codes of practice for the Electrical Industry
First Aid / CPR Refresher.
Price for Site Safe Members
Course Type
Course
Years of Site Safe Membership Loyalty & Discount
Price for Non-
Duration 1 st Year 2 nd Year 3 rd Year 4 th Year 5 th Year + Member
(10%) (15%) (20%) (25%) (30%)
Electrical Passport 6 hours $135 $128 $120 $113 $105 $150
Effective from 1 November 2009 the following course training prices will apply (GST exclusive):
ASSESSMENT
On-course
On completion receive:
• A Electrical Passport (for a non-registered worker)
• or endorsement on the reverse of a Registered Electrical Workers License Card
• A Building Construction Safety Handbook
• 3 credits towards the Certificate in Construction Site Safety
All prices are subject to change at Site Safe New Zealand’s discretion and without further notice.
Visit our website at www.sitesafe.org.nz to find and book onto a course near you.
Alternatively phone your regional booking centre at Auckland (09) 6340 365, Waikato/BOP 0800
868 252, Wellington (04) 499 2509 or Christchurch (03) 348 5788.