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Workplace Training Courses

Practical, self-paced training built for New Zealand teams. From manual handling and health and safety to forklift and biosecurity awareness, first aid, shift work and workplace behaviour, with free and low-cost options you can roll out today.

19 coursesfour of them free

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Every Capability Solutions course is online, self-paced and written for New Zealand workplaces, aligned to the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and, where relevant, the learning outcomes of NZQA unit standards. Enrol one worker or a whole site. Browse by area below.

What is on this page

Everything below is live and open for enrolment today, and any of it can be rebuilt around your own site, hazards, risks and SOPs.

Business training videos

Bespoke eLearning and cost-effective workplace training

These short videos explain how Capability Solutions builds practical online training for New Zealand businesses, from one-off courses to branded learning pathways that keep staff training easier to manage.

Who is the training for

Pick the group you are enrolling and the courses below sort themselves into core, worth doing and background, with nothing taken off the page.

There are nineteen courses and two free guides below, in six areas. Pick a group above and the list will say which ones matter most for them.

Health and safety essentials

The core training most New Zealand workplaces need, from induction to safe manual handling and mobile plant.

A warehouse worker lifting a carton with a straight back and bent knees in a New Zealand warehouse

Health and Safety and Manual Handling bundle

 Health and Safety and Manual Handling bundle

The two courses most New Zealand employers expect at induction, bought together in one enrolment.

View the bundle → A new employee being shown around a New Zealand workplace on their first day, an experienced colleague pointing something out

Introduction to Health and Safety

 Introduction to Health and Safety

A bespoke digital induction built around your own site photos and hazards, with a live compliance dashboard.

View the course → A warehouse worker in hi-vis crouching to lift a box from a pallet, a colleague with a trolley further down the aisle

Manual Handling for Staff

 Manual Handling for Staff

Safe lifting and load handling for anyone who lifts, carries, pushes or pulls, finished with an on-the-job sign-off.

View the course → Three New Zealand warehouse workers in hi-vis talking over stacked cartons, one holding a clipboard

Manual Handling for Leaders

 Manual Handling for Leaders

For supervisors and team leaders: assess the risk, choose controls, design it out, and sign off your team.

View the course → A worker in hi-vis standing well back from a forklift moving a loaded pallet in a bright New Zealand warehouse Free

Forklift Awareness for Warehouse Teams

 Forklift Awareness for Warehouse Teams

Core awareness for anyone who works on foot around forklifts and mobile plant in a warehouse or yard.

View the course → A workplace first aider kneeling beside a seated colleague and opening a first aid kit

Introduction to First Aid

 Introduction to First Aid

ANZCOR-aligned first aid awareness, Part 1 and Part 2, delivered onsite and built around your workplace.

View the course → A shift worker holding a coffee by a window at a quiet New Zealand workplace in low early light

Managing the Effects of Shift Work

 Managing the Effects of Shift Work

Help shift workers manage sleep, fatigue and health so they stay safe and well across the roster.

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Leadership and governance

Health and safety risk training for the people who lead and govern New Zealand organisations.

A senior leader walking the floor of a New Zealand operation with a site manager

Leading Health and Safety Risk

 Leading Health and Safety Risk

A short, practical guide for CEOs and senior leaders on the officer duty, reading the risk picture, and a plan to act on.

View the course → A New Zealand board around a boardroom table in considered discussion with printed papers in front of them

Governing Health and Safety Risk

 Governing Health and Safety Risk

The companion guide for directors and boards: govern risk well, ask the right questions and test assurance.

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People, behaviour and wellbeing

Training that builds a safer, healthier culture and stronger everyday behaviour.

A small diverse team of New Zealand workers talking together on a break Free

Understanding Behaviours in the Workplace

 Understanding Behaviours in the Workplace

Recognise how behaviour shapes safety and teamwork, and how to respond well to others at work.

View the course → Two New Zealand colleagues in a calm one on one conversation, one listening to the other

Psychological Safety and Wellbeing

 Psychological Safety and Wellbeing

Build a workplace where people feel safe to speak up, and meet your duty of care for mental wellbeing.

View the course → Two New Zealand coworkers having a calm, direct conversation and working something out together

Workplace Assertiveness, Conflict and Communication

 Workplace Assertiveness, Conflict and Communication

Speak up clearly, read the people around you, and turn conflict into something useful. Interactive and self-paced.

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Free to enrol

Four of the nineteen cost nothing.

Forklift Awareness, Understanding Behaviours, Biosecurity Awareness and Transitional Facility Health and Safety all run on the same platform as the paid courses and produce the same completion record.

Freight, sales and career

Training for New Zealand freight, logistics and business development teams.

A job applicant shaking hands across a desk at the start of an interview in New Zealand Free to start

Start your career

 Start your career

Where to begin if you are after your first job or moving into a new industry. Free courses, a CV builder and the paid routes into freight.

See the page → A person working through a checklist on a laptop while preparing a job application Free

Free Pre-Employment Bundle

 Free Pre-Employment Bundle

Four free courses in one enrolment: the CV builder, workplace behaviours, forklift awareness and biosecurity awareness.

View the bundle → A freight worker in hi-vis reviewing a tablet beside stacked shipping containers at a New Zealand port

Introduction to Freight Forwarding

 Introduction to Freight Forwarding

Your first step into freight, logistics and supply chain. Start from zero and learn how goods really move, door to door.

View the course → An importer and a yard worker checking trade documents together beside shipping containers at a New Zealand port

INCOTERMS 2020 Training

 INCOTERMS 2020 Training

All eleven rules, with delivery, risk and cost placed correctly on every deal. Written for New Zealand importers and exporters.

View the course → A New Zealand business development professional meeting a client across a table

The Trusted Advisor: B2B Sales & BDM

 The Trusted Advisor: B2B Sales & BDM

Move past transactional selling: build client trust, understand clients deeply and earn trusted-advisor status.

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Biosecurity and the border

For freight, warehousing and Transitional Facility teams who help keep unwanted pests out of New Zealand.

Workers in hi-vis signing in at the entrance of a New Zealand facility with container trucks at the loading docks behind Free

Biosecurity Awareness Training

 Biosecurity Awareness Training

A fast, free way for TF, freight and warehouse teams to spot the signs and help with your annual training requirement.

View the course → A forklift carrying a pallet along a New Zealand wharf at dusk with hills across the harbour Free

Transitional Facility H&S: Working Safely with MPI

 Transitional Facility H&S: Working Safely with MPI

Health and safety awareness for people working on an MPI-approved Transitional Facility site.

View the course → A worker in hi-vis checking inside a shipping container at a New Zealand transitional facility

MPI Accredited Person (AP) training

 MPI Accredited Person (AP) training

The formal MPI-approved Accredited Person training, for people responsible for devanning imported sea containers at a Transitional Facility. Our partner QCONZ delivers it, and MPI grants AP status once its own requirements are met.

Go to the QCONZ course →

Built around your workplace

Any course on this page can be rebuilt around your own site.

We rebuild the content around the hazards on your site, your own SOPs, photos of your building and plant, and a sign-off that goes back to the manager. The three courses below are only ever built that way, and the rest can be when a client asks for it.

Training built for your site

Bespoke courses we build around your own site, procedures and SOPs. Get in touch and we will tailor it to your workplace.

A workplace fire warden in a hi-vis vest guiding colleagues toward an exit during an orderly evacuation drill

Fire Warden Training

 Fire Warden Training

Give your wardens the confidence to lead a calm, orderly evacuation, built around your building and evacuation scheme.

Contact us → A health and safety representative doing a walk around of an operations floor, talking with a worker

Health and Safety Representative Training

 Health and Safety Representative Training

Prepare your HSRs to represent their team well, built around your own site, hazards and procedures.

Contact us → Close view of a workers gloved hands applying a safety lockout padlock and tag to a machine isolation point

Lockout Tagout (LOTO) Training

 Lockout Tagout (LOTO) Training

Safe energy isolation during maintenance, built around your own machinery and isolation points.

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Free guides

Plain-English reads that explain the topic and point you to the right training.

A worker moving a box from a height adjustable lift table at waist height in a warehouse Free guide

Manual Handling Training in New Zealand

 Manual Handling Training in New Zealand

What the law expects, how to assess the risk with TILE, safe technique with the 5 P’s, and who to train.

Read the guide → A container ship alongside gantry cranes at a New Zealand port at dawn Free guide

Your Biosecurity Front Line

 Your Biosecurity Front Line

Why warehouse and freight workers are New Zealand’s biosecurity front line, with a free awareness game.

Read the guide →

Looking for something else?

We also run leadership and governance training on health and safety risk for directors, boards and senior leaders, plus career-start and freight courses. Browse the full library to see everything.

Browse the full library

Common questions

Are the courses online?

Yes. Every course is online and self-paced, so your team can complete it on any device, at work or from home, and pick up where they left off.

Do you have free courses?

Yes. Several are free to enrol, including Biosecurity Awareness, Forklift Awareness, Understanding Behaviours in the Workplace, and Transitional Facility Health and Safety. Others, like the manual handling courses, are low-cost per person.

Are they aligned to New Zealand law?

Yes. Courses are written for NZ workplaces and aligned to the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and, where relevant, the learning outcomes of NZQA unit standards. They are workplace training, not NZQA-registered assessments.

Can we enrol a whole team?

Yes. Enrol one person or a whole site. Bespoke clients get a branded management portal to enrol staff, track progress and pull completion reports. Get in touch through the homepage to arrange a larger group.