Careers & Development

Check our the guides which outline how to get started in your career, how to recruit for health and safety practitioners and the skills/experience and knowledge you need for each step of the career ladder of Health and Safety Generalists.

Our Health and Safety Summer Internship Programme, is designed to build a pipeline of future passionate health, safety, and wellbeing professionals for the government sector. Check out our 2021 Workplace Health and Safety Awards, winning the Leadership category.

Find out more about the health, safety and wellbeing scholarships and other public sector graduate and internship opportunities across the various agencies and career fields.

Partnering with IMPAC, the Public Sector Early in Careers (EiC) Health and Safety Certificate replaces our existing Early in Careers Programme. The new certificate uses the NZQA’s micro-credentialing qualification process to align this certificate to showcase what a ‘good’ H&S advisor looks like, as outlined in the published 2022 H&S Generalist Career Pathway.
This certificate is designed for new H&S practitioners, co-coordinators, graduates who are starting their careers in health, safety, and wellbeing profession, and HS Reps who are interested in developing their H&S knowledge further or to use as a stepping stone programme to transition into a H&S career.

Partnering with the Institute of Directors (IoD) we present the Officer Development Programme, designed for public service agency senior leaders with officer responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA). Who also have dual management roles for health and safety governance and operation management.

Check out our 2021 Workplace Health and Safety Awards, winning the Governance category. Aimed at Deputy Chief Executives and Chief Executives,

Job Hunting? or Looking to recruit?
The GHSL can support our member agencies by providing free advertising and promotion of public sector, health, safety and wellbeing vacancies.

To assist you with finding de-escalation providers, we have identified a couple of training providers that have received favourable feedback from various public sector agencies over the last 12-24 months.