Course Duration: Approximately 2 hours
This IIRSM-approved Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER) Leadership Skills for Supervisors training course explains how to promote psychological safety and motivate staff to become active participants in PUWER compliance.
Supervisors learn to encourage workers to report problems and work on solutions together, creating more opportunities to improve equipment safety, reliability and performance.
| Course Duration | Approximately 2 hours |
|---|---|
| Approval body | IIRSM |
| Format | Fully online |
| Assessment | Multiple choice |
| Certification | Same-day digital certificate |
| Certificate Valid For | 3 years |
This course contains the following Modules:
Explains why staff must feel psychologically safe raising concerns or reporting incidents and outlines how to promote this psychological safety.
Explores how to engage staff in reporting and resolving work equipment issues and lead productive team briefings that reveal problems and solutions.
The course certificate includes:
An IIRSM-approved Working at Height Training certificate will be available for download and printing instantly upon course completion.
Users must complete an assessment before earning their certificate.
The end-of-course test is:
A score of 80% is required to pass.
Operators and support staff often hesitate to report equipment issues, preventing leaders from addressing problems.
PUWER Leadership Skills Training enables supervisors to create a culture where all team members feel comfortable reporting equipment issues and suggesting solutions.
The course explains how to promote psychological safety and remove common barriers to accurate reporting, such as power dynamics and fear of repercussions. This approach ensures supervisors have the insight needed to minimise equipment risks and develop safer, more productive ways of working.
Supervisors must ensure that all teams working with or around equipment report safety concerns or incidents accurately and as soon as possible. However, staff are often reluctant to do this, fearing reprisal or failing to see the value.
PUWER Leadership Skills for Supervisors explains how to create a workplace culture where all workers contribute to safety. Supervisors learn how to encourage accurate reporting that reveals safety issues. They also learn how to involve workers in safety to raise engagement and performance across their organisation.
PUWER Leadership Skills helps supervisors fulfil their duties and uphold work equipment regulations effectively. They learn how to actively involve staff working with or around equipment in identifying and addressing safety issues.
The course examines the crucial role of psychological safety and what leaders must do to overcome barriers to productive reporting. It helps team leaders, supervisors and managers create an environment where workers fully participate in safety and equipment issues are readily identified and resolved.
