NZQA registered unit standard
25689 version 3
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Title
Introduce a programme for workforce health, safety, and wellness
into an organisation
Level
5
Credits
10
Purpose
This unit standard is designed principally for specialists in
human resource management (HRM). People credited with
this unit standard are able to develop and implement a
programme for workforce health, safety, and wellness in an
organisation, and review the development and implementation
to ensure organisational needs have been met.
Classification
Business Operations and Development > Human Resource
Management
Available grade
Achieved
Entry information
Recommended skills
and knowledge
Unit 25691, Demonstrate knowledge of workforce health,
safety, and wellness programmes in human resource
management practice, or demonstrate equivalent knowledge
and skills.
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
Qualitative and quantitative methods may include but are not limited to:
 market surveys
 employee satisfaction surveys
 retention data surveys
 recruitment data
 questionnaires
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exit surveys
focus groups.
3
Organisation may include but is not limited to:
 a small, medium, or large enterprise
 a profit, not-for-profit, or voluntary organisation
 a private or public sector organisation
 an entire organisation or a part of a larger organisation.
4
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.
5
The organisation’s needs arise from its direction and include the workforce health,
safety, and wellness needs to be addressed by the introduction of the new
programme. These needs are established and available to the candidate, who
therefore does not need to generate them.
6
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.
7
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.
8
Assessment will be conducted on the basis of evidence of demonstrated
performance in the workplace. This unit standard is intended to be relevant to a very
wide variety of organisations and workplaces.
9
This unit standard involves introducing a programme into an organisation. The
companion unit standard 25690 involves evaluating and maintaining an existing
programme in an organisation.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Develop a programme for workforce health, safety, and wellness in an organisation.
Range
development could involve a completely new system or adapting a generic
system to fit the needs of the organisation.
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Evidence requirements
1.1
Programme developed supports the organisation's direction and workforce
health, safety, and wellness needs.
1.2
Programme developed includes a method for regular evaluation and
maintenance of the system.
1.3
Development is conducted in a manner consistent with ethical standards and
norms of professional behaviour.
1.4
Staff to whom the system is relevant have input into its design in accordance
with organisational practice.
Outcome 2
Implement programme for workforce health, safety, and wellness in an organisation.
Range
implementation may be a pilot within part of a wider organisation.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Implementation is consistent with the requirements of the developed
programme.
2.2
The implementation process includes mechanisms for feedback and for
necessary changes to be made.
2.3
The implementation process includes a strategy to support effective
participation by generic/line managers in the programme for workforce health,
safety, and wellness.
2.4
Staff to whom the system is relevant have input into its implementation in
accordance with organisational practice.
Outcome 3
Review the development and implementation of the programme for workforce health,
safety, and wellness to ensure organisational needs have been met.
Range
review will follow as soon as practicable after implementation.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Review identifies to what extent the system is consistent with the organisation’s
direction, reflects the intention for development, and is consistent with
legislative requirements and ethical standards and norms of professional
behaviour.
3.2
Review process includes qualitative and quantitative methods.
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Implementation is reviewed in terms of management and staff involvement.
3.4
Staff to whom the system is relevant have input into its review in accordance
with organisational practice.
Replacement information
This unit standard and unit standard 25690 replaced unit
standard 11546 and unit standard 11547.
Planned review date
31 December 2019
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 and
Revision
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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