Compliance Training For Managers

Compliance training for managers is a set of short online courses that an organisation assigns to its supervisors and managers, so they understand their obligations when leading people at work. Sentrient’s manager courses cover safety, bullying, sexual harassment, psychological safety and performance, and leave a record of who completed each one.

Yes. Sentrient’s courses for supervisors and managers are created with Mills Oakley in Australia and Simpson Grierson in New Zealand, and are kept up to date with legislation across Australian states and territories. Most also cover New Zealand, and we can confirm the coverage of each course in a demo.

Most organisations train managers through occasional workshops, slide decks or free government modules, and Sentrient adds one legally endorsed set of manager courses that the organisation assigns and tracks. For background, read our articles on what supervisors should consider when managing safety risks and responding to workplace bullying as a supervisor.

Sentrient provides short awareness courses that an organisation assigns to its managers, so it is not accredited or nationally recognised training, not a leadership or compliance qualification, not legal advice and not a facilitated workshop. It does not train compliance officers for a career in compliance. For courses every worker completes, see Compliance Training For Employees. For the yearly program, see mandatory employee training.

Australian work health and safety law expects a business to provide the instruction, training, information and supervision its workers need to be safe, and managers are often the people who supervise. Employers also carry a positive duty to eliminate workplace sexual harassment as far as possible. Your organisation remains responsible for deciding what training its managers need.

Start with the three manager courses tied to the highest risks: work health and safety, sexual harassment and workplace bullying. Add psychological safety and performance management next, then conflict resolution, diversity and workplace flexibility, and family and domestic violence. Managers should also complete the courses assigned to all employees.

Free government modules teach one manager one topic, while Sentrient gives your organisation one set of manager courses across topics with a record of who has completed each. The Fair Work Ombudsman’s Online Learning Centre, for example, offers free courses for employers and managers. Both can be used together.

Most Sentrient manager courses take about 15 minutes. The work health and safety course and the diversity and workplace flexibility course take about 30 minutes each. A supervisor can complete a course in one sitting between meetings or before a shift, so training does not pull leaders away from their teams for long.

Sentrient recommends that people complete compliance training at induction and on a regular basis afterwards, for example annually. For managers, a promotion into a supervisory role is a sensible extra trigger. Your organisation sets the cycle that suits its risks and policies, and remains responsible for that decision.

Yes. Sentrient’s manager courses are legally endorsed and created with employment law firms Mills Oakley in Australia and Simpson Grierson in New Zealand. They explain a manager’s obligations in plain English. They are general awareness training and do not replace legal advice about a specific complaint or incident.

Sentrient reviews its courses regularly and updates them as workplace laws change across Australian states and territories and in New Zealand. Updates are made in the library itself, so your supervisors always open the current version and nobody has to rewrite manager training each time a law changes.

The employee courses explain each person’s own obligations, while the manager versions add what a supervisor does when a concern reaches them: identifying issues, responding to complaints and acting early. Safe Work Australia explains that a business must manage psychosocial hazards, and Sentrient offers a psychological safety course written for managers. Your organisation remains responsible for managing those risks.

Yes. You can run Sentrient’s manager courses on the Sentrient platform or license them for a third-party learning management system that is SCORM-compliant. Inside Sentrient, the learning management system enrols your managers and reports on completion alongside the rest of the workforce.

In Sentrient you enrol managers in a single course or a learning program built for leaders. Automated notifications and alerts tell each person what is due and by when, and the same alerts remind anyone who has not yet completed their assigned learning.

Sentrient reports on learning across the organisation, so you can see which managers have completed each course and which have not. Those records help you show the steps your organisation took if a complaint, a claim or a regulator’s enquiry follows. Your organisation remains responsible for keeping and using them.

Manager training is an extra layer on top of the courses everyone completes. Start with Compliance Training For Employees for the whole workforce, then assign the supervisor and manager versions to people who lead others. Directors can use Compliance Training For Board of Directors, and HR teams Compliance Training For HR Professionals.

Yes. The courses are designed to be used alongside your workplace policies, so a manager learns the expected response and then reads how your organisation’s own procedure applies it. Sentrient also offers policy management software, which keeps policy sign-off and training in one system.

Yes. The courses are online, so supervisors on rosters, on the road or working from home can complete them without attending a session in person. Sentrient also offers a short course on managing remote teams that covers setting expectations, communicating and maintaining motivation at a distance.

Yes. Sentrient keeps its courses up to date with legislation across all Australian states and territories, and most manager courses also cover New Zealand. One set of courses can therefore serve supervisors at head office, regional sites and branches in both countries.

Training records are personal information about your managers, so treat them with the same care as other employee records. The privacy regulator lists staff training on privacy and security obligations among the steps that help protect personal information. Your organisation remains responsible for how it collects, stores and uses learner data.

Sentrient offers courses written specifically for supervisors and managers, not employee courses with a new title. They are legally endorsed, created with Mills Oakley and Simpson Grierson, short enough to finish in one sitting, and delivered through Sentrient, your own LMS or your HRIS. More than 1,000 organisations use Sentrient.

Organisations of every size and sector use Sentrient, including the Uniting Church in Australia WA, Engineers Australia, Roche Diabetes Care Australia and Community Action Gympie. Read how the Uniting Church WA streamlined compliance with Sentrient.

Sentrient compliance training is priced per user, with plans that scale from small teams to large organisations. The price depends on how many people you train and which courses you choose, including the manager versions, so we prepare a quote tailored to your organisation.

Yes. Book a free 20-minute demo and we will show you the supervisor and manager courses, the learner experience and the completion reporting. Bring your questions about delivery through your own LMS or HRIS, and we will follow up with a quote for your organisation.