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Capability Solutions · Training made easy

Digital workplace training, built around your business

We design and build online training for New Zealand workplaces: your sites, your procedures, your branding. Your team trains onsite on any device, with courses that cover health and safety inductions and governance guides for boards.

A New Zealand workplace team completing online training together
17online courses
4free courses
11free guides to NZ health and safety law
$160a month plus GST for a training plan

What we do

Training that fits how your workplace runs

We start with how your business runs and the procedures you have written down. Then we turn them into training your team can complete, prove and repeat.

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Workers on a manufacturing floor with a forklift moving stock

Customised course builds

We convert your manuals, standard operating procedures and face-to-face sessions into engaging, mobile-friendly online modules, branded for your business and specific to how your sites operate.

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Ready-to-go course library

Practical New Zealand workplace courses your team can start today: health and safety, manual handling, forklift awareness, first aid, shift work, workplace behaviours and more.

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Evidence you can stand behind

Assessments and completion records give you something to show auditors and customers, without pulling staff off the floor or booking another workshop.

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A branded management portal

Clients with a customised build get a fully branded management portal where you enrol staff, manage progress and generate reports, so training administration lives in one place, under your brand.

The course library

Online courses built for New Zealand workplaces

Every course is self-paced and runs on our own learning platform, so enrolment takes minutes and your team can start the same day. Here is a sample of the library.

Health and safety

Introduction to Health and Safety

The workplace induction essentials every new starter in New Zealand should know. View the course
Health and safety

Manual Handling for Staff

Safe lifting and load handling for anyone who lifts, carries, pushes or pulls, with on the job sign off. View the course
Health and safety

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
Free Health and safety

Forklift Awareness for Warehouse Teams

Core awareness for anyone working near forklifts and mobile plant. View the course
Health and safety

Introduction to First Aid

Workplace-ready first response awareness across two self-paced parts. View the bundle
Health and safety

Managing the Effects of Shift Work

Practical fatigue, sleep and alertness strategies for shift workers and their employers. View the course
Free People and wellbeing

Understanding Behaviours in the Workplace

Recognise the behaviours that build a positive, safe and productive team. View the course
People and wellbeing

Psychological Safety and Wellbeing

Build a team culture where people speak up early and problems surface fast. View the course
People and wellbeing

Workplace Assertiveness, Conflict and Communication

Read behaviour, hold your ground, and work through conflict with a five-style model. View the course
Freight and sales

Introduction to Freight Forwarding

Factory door to final delivery, for people starting from zero in freight and logistics. View the course
Freight and sales

INCOTERMS 2020

All eleven rules, where delivery happens, when risk passes and who pays each cost. View the course
Freight and sales

The Trusted Advisor: B2B Sales and BDM

Build client trust and earn the seat you want in the room, across twenty-one lessons. View the course
Free Biosecurity

Biosecurity Awareness Training

A fast, free way to cover the biosecurity awareness training your Transitional Facility manual commits to. View the course
Free Biosecurity

Transitional Facility H&S (MPI)

Site-specific safety training for staff working in and around MPI-approved transitional facilities. View the course
Built for your site

Fire Warden Training

Built around your own building, evacuation scheme and standard operating procedures. See how it works
Built for your site

Health and Safety Representative Training

HSR training built around your own site, your hazards and your procedures. See how it works
Built for your site

Lockout Tagout

Safe energy isolation built around your own machinery and isolation points. See how it works

Browse the full library

Health and safety, biosecurity, first aid and workplace training, all in one place. See all courses

Free guides

Short answers to common NZ health and safety questions

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

Quick check. True or false?

New Zealand law sets a maximum weight one person can lift at work.

You need a forklift licence to drive a forklift in a New Zealand warehouse.

Lockout tagout is required by law when servicing machinery.

Free guide

Manual handling in NZ

What the law expects, how to assess the risk, and safe technique. A practical read. Read the guide
Free guide

Is there a legal lifting weight limit in NZ?

No maximum weight exists in New Zealand law. Where the 25kg figure comes from, and how WorkSafe expects a lifting task to be assessed. Read the guide
Free guide

Do you need a forklift licence?

There is no forklift licence in New Zealand. What the law requires, and when the F endorsement applies. Read the guide
Free guide

How many fire wardens do you need?

No legal minimum exists. The evacuation scheme thresholds, and how to size warden cover properly. Read the guide
Free guide

How many first aiders does a NZ workplace need?

No ratio exists in NZ law. What regulation 13 asks for, and the three worked examples in WorkSafe's own guide. Read the guide
Free guide

Is a site induction legally required in NZ?

No law uses the word. The duties an induction meets are compulsory, and skipping one can still be a breach. Read the guide
Free guide

Is a hazard register required by law in NZ?

No NZ law requires one. What the law asks for, and the records that are compulsory. Read the guide
Free guide

Is lockout tagout required by law in NZ?

Yes for servicing machinery. The rule is a 1995 regulation most guidance never mentions, and tagging comes from WorkSafe. Read the guide
Free guide

Psychosocial hazards and NZ law

No specific regulation, but a real duty. Where it comes from, and what changes on 1 April 2027. Read the guide
Free guide

How often does health and safety training have to be repeated in NZ?

No general period exists in NZ law. The few fixed expiries that do, and where 2 and 3 years come from. Read the guide
Free guide

Your biosecurity front line

Why the workers who move goods spot pests first, plus a free eight-minute game to sharpen the instinct. Read the guide
Guides index

All eleven questions in one place

Every guide, with the short answer and the section of the Act, regulation or WorkSafe guidance it comes from. Go to the guides index

For directors, boards and senior leaders

Health and safety starts at the top

New Zealand's health and safety law puts personal due diligence duties on officers. These two self-paced guides help the people at the top govern and lead that risk.

Governing Health and Safety Risk: A Guide for Directors and Boards

Your due diligence duties, the questions a board should be asking management, and how to test whether your organisation's controls are working.

View the governance guide

Leading Health and Safety Risk: A Guide for CEOs and Senior Leaders

How to set the tone for health and safety, show your people you take the legal duty seriously, and lead your organisation's most serious risks.

View the leadership guide

Career starters

Training for school leavers and career changers

Free, job-ready training for school leavers and career changers, built to help you walk into a New Zealand workplace with the basics already sorted.

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Start Your Career hub

Explore real entry-level roles in freight, logistics and the wider supply chain, and see the exact training that helps you get job-ready for each one.

Explore the hub

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Free Pre-Employment and Career Changer Bundle

The basics nearly every employer expects, at no cost: health and safety awareness, workplace behaviours and more, with completion records you can point to at an interview.

Start free today

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Quick CV and Cover Letter Builder

Free. Choose the job you are applying for, write each section in your own words, and download a CV and a matching one-page cover letter as PDFs, both aimed at that role.

Build your CV free

Bundles

Get a team started in one step

$79

WorkStart Bundle: Health and Safety + Manual Handling

The safety basics nearly every New Zealand employer expects, in one bundle.

View the bundle
$49

Introduction to First Aid: Part 1 and 2

First response awareness for teams, aligned with ANZCOR guidance.

View the bundle
Free

Pre-Employment and Career Changer Bundle

Free job-ready training for people preparing to enter or re-enter the workforce.

View the bundle

Training plans for your business

From $160 + GST per month

Full access to every course for unlimited staff, under your logo and brand, tailored to your risks and processes.

Enquire about a plan

Who we work with

Built for real operational settings

A forklift loads a curtain-side truck at a wet loading dockWarehousing and logisticsInductions, forklift awareness, manual handling and site rules for busy DCs.
Two fitters service a machine with a lockout point in the foregroundManufacturing and distributionMachine, process and safety training written around your own floor and machines.
Workers unload a shipping container at a transitional facilityPrimary sector and biosecurityMPI transitional facility training and biosecurity awareness for accredited sites.
A team member walks two visitors through a factoryGrowing NZ businessesOnboard new starters the day they arrive and keep refreshers rolling.

About

A New Zealand company that builds training people finish

Capability Solutions was founded by Gordon Findlay to fix a familiar problem: workplace training that is generic and a mission to organise. Off-the-shelf courses do not reflect your sites, and classroom days pull people off the floor.

We write digital training for real operational settings, branded for your business and delivered online, so your team can complete it onsite or at home. Every course is built to be finished and to leave a completion record you can point to when auditors or customers ask.

Alongside customised builds, our ready-to-go library covers the training New Zealand workplaces need most, including health and safety inductions, manual handling and governance guides for boards.

You will find Gordon on LinkedIn, and Capability Solutions on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

Get in touch

Phone: 027 567 4436

Course library: capabilitysolutions.co.nz/courses.html

Or use the contact form and we will come back to you within one business day.

FAQ

Common questions

What does Capability Solutions do?

We build digital workplace training for New Zealand businesses. That means converting your manuals, procedures and face-to-face sessions into branded online modules, plus a ready-to-go course library covering health and safety, manual handling, forklift awareness, first aid, shift work, workplace behaviours and leadership.

Where do I enrol in a course?

The full course library is at capabilitysolutions.co.nz/courses.html. Choose a course or bundle and enrol online. Your team can start the same day.

Can you brand courses for our business?

Yes. Customised builds are our core service. We take your existing content, your site rules and your branding, and turn them into training that reflects how your workplace runs.

Do the courses provide completion evidence?

Yes. Courses include assessments and completion records, so you can show auditors and customers that your team has done the training.

Where is Capability Solutions based?

We are a New Zealand company and work with businesses nationwide. Because the training is online, your team completes it onsite or at home, on any device.

Contact

Tell us what your team needs to learn

Send us a note about a customised build, a team enrolment or a question about a course, and we will come back to you within one business day.

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