NZQA registered unit standard
25691 version 3
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Title
Demonstrate knowledge of workforce health, safety, and wellness
programmes in human resource management practice
Level
4
Credits
4
Purpose
This unit standard is intended as an overview of how workforce
health, safety, and wellness programmes operate in
organisations. It includes underpinning knowledge relevant to
unit standards 25689 and 25690. People credited with this unit
standard are able to demonstrate knowledge of workforce
health, safety, and wellness programmes in human resource
management practice
Classification
Business Operations and Development > Human Resource
Management
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
1
A programme for workforce health, safety, and wellness includes initiatives for mutual
benefit of the individual, the organisation, and its stakeholders, from these three
categories:
 address relevant compliance needs
 improve the workplace environment
 enhance the individual’s
o experience at work and/or
o work and life balance and/or
o personal health, safety, and wellbeing.
Evidence is required for five initiatives, including at least one from each of the three
categories.
2
The organisation’s direction is the nature of the organisation and how it is funded, the
growth mode, impact of external factors, and if the direction is national or
international.
3
Ethical standards and norms of professional behaviour are those included in the
Human Resource Institute of New Zealand’s (HRINZ) Code of Professional and
Ethical Behaviour and/or an equivalent code relevant to the candidate’s workplace.
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SSB Code 130301
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA registered unit standard
25691 version 3
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Legislation relevant to this unit standard includes:
 Employment Relations Act 2000
 Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992
 Human Rights Act 1993
 Privacy Act 1993
 Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975
 Holidays Act 2003
and any other legislation relevant to the context.
5
Interested parties include individuals in the organisation and the organisation itself,
and may include but are not limited to – individuals’ whanau/families, representative
groups, clients/customers, users.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Demonstrate knowledge of workforce health, safety, and wellness programmes in human resource
management practice.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Legislative, legal and contractual requirements of workforce health, safety, and
wellness programmes are identified.
1.2
The relevance of ethical standards and norms of professional behaviour to
workforce health, safety, and wellness programmes is established.
1.3
Rights and responsibilities of interested parties are identified for workforce
health, safety, and wellness programmes.
1.4
Potential impact on and benefits for interested parties are identified for
workforce health, safety, and wellness programmes.
1.5
Communication and consultation requirements of the system are defined for
workforce health, safety, and wellness programmes.
1.6
Evaluation criteria for the quality of the workforce health, safety, and wellness
programmes are defined.
Range
Planned review date
quality may include but is not limited to – effectiveness, efficiency,
staff participation, alignment with organisation’s direction,
stakeholder satisfaction, fitness for purpose.
31 December 2019
NZQA National Qualifications Services
SSB Code 130301
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016
NZQA registered unit standard
25691 version 3
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Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
19 June 2009
31 December 2016
Rollover
2
18 April 2013
31 December 2018
Rollover
3
16 April 2015
N/A
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0113
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact NZQA National Qualifications Services nqs@nzqa.govt.nz if you wish to
suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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SSB Code 130301
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016