Safety Representative and Site Safety Officer.
Five days that end in an officer the site can use: the legal framework, the HIRA method, the incident file, the toolbox talk, and a practical walkthrough assessed on a live site. For the person the law expects to know why, not just what.
Who sits this level
Designated workplace representatives, junior officers, and supervisors who carry the safety responsibility beside their own trade.
The week, module by module
01
The Namibian legal framework
The Labour Act and the sector regulations that follow it: construction, mining, factories. What each demands of a site, and who is answerable.
02
Hazard identification and risk assessment
HIRA methodology: scoring likelihood against severity, writing the assessment a supervisor can act on, and revisiting it when the site changes.
03
Incident investigation and reporting
Near-miss, injury and fatality: securing the scene, taking statements, and the paperwork that must exist afterwards.
04
PPE inspection and management
Issuing, inspecting, recording and replacing: running a PPE store that passes an audit.
05
Emergency preparedness and fire safety
Preparedness planning, and the practical: extinguisher use, live, with the theory behind each class of fire.
06
First aid awareness
What to do in the first minutes and how to support a first aider. This is awareness, not certification: the Level 1 first-aid course itself is delivered by a registered training partner.
07
Construction-site hazards
Scaffolds, working at heights, excavation and electrical awareness: the four that hurt most, taught as inspection points.
08
Toolbox talks and crew briefings
Running the ten minutes that keep a week safe: preparing, delivering and recording a talk that workers actually keep.
09
Safety file management and records
The file an inspector asks for first: registers, permits, certificates, and how to keep them current without heroics.
10
Practical site walkthrough
A guided walkthrough at a partner site, closed by observation against the rubric you saw in advance.
Assessment
- A 50-question written examination. Pass mark: 80 percent.
- A practical risk-assessment exercise at the partner worksite.
- A ten-minute toolbox talk, delivered to the cohort.
- A walkthrough observation, scored against the published rubric.
- Results within five working days of the final exercise.
Outcomes
- Run a HIRA on a working site and write it up
- Investigate and document an incident to statutory standard
- Inspect, issue and manage PPE across a workforce
- Deliver a recorded toolbox talk and chair the weekly meeting
- Keep a safety file that stands up to inspection
- Act as the designated representative on a Namibian site
The document
Certificate of Completion, Safety Officer Level 2
An internal credential, non-NQF at launch. When accreditation is awarded, the level maps to NQF-aligned unit standards and the mapping is announced on the register.
Fee
Published 15 November 2026, in Namibia dollars.
Dates
Cohort 1 is planned for January 2027. Intake dates publish on this page and in the register on 15 November 2026.
One message holds your place.
Register your interest through the application form selecting 'Safety training'. The office replies within three working days, and you hear the intake dates the moment they are set.