Mandatory Compliance Training
Mandatory compliance training is used to describe two quite different things, and the confusion has a cost.
Some training is genuinely required by law or by a licence condition. Food handling in certain settings. Responsible service of alcohol. Specific tickets and licences for particular plant or high risk work. Requirements attached to a funding agreement or a registration scheme.
Most workplace compliance training is not mandatory in that sense at all. It is a reasonable step an employer takes to meet a broader duty, which is a strong reason to do it and a quite different reason.
Calling everything mandatory has a practical downside. Once people work out that some so-called mandatory training is not really mandatory, they start applying that judgement to all of it.
The Fair Work Ombudsman covers employer obligations. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.
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The Essential List of Mandatory Compliance Training for Australian and New Zealand Workplaces
Quick Answer: There is no single law that lists every course an Australian or New Zealand employer must run. What the law does is impose duties, and training is how most employers show they have met them. The core list of mandatory compliance training that almost every workplace is expected to cover is: work health […]
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