Behavioural Safety Training Course

It is a short online course that an organisation assigns to the people who do the work, whether they are employees, contractors, volunteers or new starters. It explains why capable people take shortcuts and gives them practical ways to choose the safer option and help colleagues do the same. Each completion is logged against the person with a date.

Yes. The scenes are everyday Australian and New Zealand workplaces, and the course refers to the legislation in every state and territory and New Zealand, with Sentrient revising it when the law changes. It describes what regulators expect in plain words. How each site manages its risks stays with your organisation.

Most organisations rely on toolbox talks, signage and a reminder after an incident, or buy an observation program, and the effect fades when attention moves on. This course gives every worker the same understanding of what shapes their choices, with completion recorded. Our articles on WHS training in Australia and the components of workplace compliance training explain why training needs a record.

No, it is a short awareness course your organisation assigns, not a nationally recognised qualification, a licence, an observation program or legal advice, and it does not measure how people behave on site. Pair it with the safety culture training course where leaders also want to address the beliefs that sit behind behaviour.

Not by that name. The model WHS laws require a business to eliminate risks so far as is reasonably practicable and otherwise minimise them, working through the hierarchy of controls in the Code of Practice on managing work health and safety risks, where training and procedures rank below changing the hazard itself. Training supports those steps. Choosing the controls stays with your organisation.

Every person whose work includes a task where habit can override care, which on most sites means everyone, along with the contractors beside them. Supervisors, who see habits first and whose reaction to a shortcut shapes the next one, should also be given the WHS training course for managers and supervisors because it covers their duties as leaders.

Regulators such as the NHVR publish free material on human factors, some government departments offer a module to their own staff, and providers run behavior based safety training courses and observation programs that train a few observers to coach the rest. A guide informs one reader and an observer program reaches the people trained to run it. This course reaches every worker in the same words, with a completion record.

It takes fifteen to thirty minutes online, in one sitting, so a crew can take it at the start of a shift or during induction without losing a day. Workers go at their own pace, which makes it easy to plan around the roster.

The cycle is your organisation’s call. Many assign it at induction, then repeat it each year or after a change that creates new habits, such as new plant, a new process, a move to another site or a run of near misses. Habits drift as people get comfortable, which is why a refresher is common.

Sentrient produces its online compliance courses with Mills Oakley Lawyers (Australia) and Simpson Grierson Lawyers (New Zealand), and keeps them in step as legislation changes. This course draws on the model WHS laws and regulator guidance on human factors and the hierarchy of controls. It supports what your organisation does and does not stand in for it.

Whenever the law changes in an Australian state or territory or in New Zealand, Sentrient reviews and updates the course, so workers see the current version. A course hosted by Sentrient updates on its own. Running it in your own LMS? Ask how updates are delivered to you. Applying the law on each site stays with your organisation.

The behavioural safety course treats a shortcut as information. It asks what made the unsafe way easier, then shows how to change the habit, offer a colleague feedback and report a job that is set up the hard way. It also explains why recognising a safe habit works better than a telling-off, and how drift sets in.

Yes. You can run it through the Sentrient platform, your existing learning management system or your HRIS. In your own system the course is loaded as a package, and completions then appear beside your other training records, with workers signing in as they already do.

In the Sentrient platform you assign the course to a person, a team, a site or everyone, see who has started and who has finished, and send a reminder to anyone behind. Nobody has to chase people desk by desk. Each record updates the moment a worker completes the course.

The platform keeps a dated record for each worker and reports by team, site or contracting company. A regulator investigating an incident, an insurer or an auditor may ask what training the workforce had, and you can produce the record. It shows the training took place. How the work is done on site remains your organisation’s responsibility.

No. The course shapes what people do on the job. The Sentrient incident management system is the software where incidents and near misses are reported, investigated and closed out. Better habits make for better reports, and a working system shows workers that their reports led somewhere. They are sold separately and work together.

The job safety analysis training course breaks a task into steps and hazards, and the risk assessment training course teaches how to judge a risk. This course covers the human side, why people drift and how to change a habit. Together they give a worker the task, the judgement and the habit.

Yes. It works in any current web browser, on a laptop, a tablet or a phone, so workers can complete it in a site office, a vehicle bay or at home before a first shift. Nothing needs to be installed. Many crews take it together and talk through the tasks afterwards.

Yes. One course applies across every Australian state and territory and New Zealand, so a team in Perth, a depot in Brisbane and a site in Auckland learn the same thing and report completion in one place. The content follows each jurisdiction’s legislation. Local procedures remain your organisation’s responsibility.

Learner records stay inside the Sentrient platform, where they are handled under the Australian Privacy Principles. Access goes only to the people your organisation nominates. Your organisation stays responsible for what it collects from its own workers and how it uses that information.

Because Sentrient’s behavioural safety training courses live alongside the rest of your training in one workplace compliance course library, with lawyer-reviewed content, completion tracked for each person and a Melbourne team behind the platform. One rollout and one report, from a team of twenty to sites across the country.

Any organisation whose people do physical, repetitive or time-pressured work: logistics, manufacturing, health and community services, councils, trades and utilities. Sentrient clients include Grampians Community Health, Engineers Australia, Jesuit Social Services and Pental Limited. Read how Grampians Community Health trains a workforce spread across several locations online.

Pricing is per user, and the quote reflects how many people you train and which other library courses you add. We leave the figure off because it varies with workforce size and mix. Ask during your demo.

Book a free 20-minute demo. We will walk you through the course as a learner sees it, then show how assignment, reminders and tracking work and what the completion report looks like to a manager. Bring a supervisor who runs your toolbox talks, because their questions will be the practical ones. Request your free demo.