Ride Safe New Zealand offer two different workplace training courses specifically designed for organizations and employees who are using motorcycles. Our courses feature industry-leading design and innovation. Modern, practical training methods for real-life risk reduction and evaluations are conducted solely by highly experienced and skilled off-road training specialists.

The “Capable and Competent Level 1 & 2” course is suitable for all users’ ability levels and ensures the user(s) can ride a motorcycle or electric machine such as an UBCO safely over a variety of terrain commonly found on off-road terrain, in forests and rural workplaces and typically training duration is 4 hours. This course was designed for any workplace who requires staff, PCBU’s or volunteers to operate traditional or electric motorcycles on terrain that is not classed as challenging, extremely remote or requires the user(s) to navigate environmental elements such as river crossings on treacherous terrain.

• Ideal for organizations such as orchards, volunteer organizations and low risk users

The “Challenging and Technical Level 3 & 4” course is ideal for workplaces such as pest control, regional councils, The Department of Conservation and other organization’s requiring staff to safely navigate environmentally challenging terrain and requiring users to perform dynamic hazard and risk assessments to safely navigate elements such as river crossings, seasonal changes and elevated, remote landscapes. Environments like these require users to conduct robust hazard and risk assessments and consider riding techniques both for safety and to reduce fatigue. This “Challenging and Technical” course is exactly that and suits high-country workplaces or contractors working on high country hill blocks or adventure tourism guides. Duration in approx. 8 hours. Previous motorcycle experience is required, however with prior notice we can plan to provide extra tuition to new users prior to commencing the course.

Our Ride Safe New Zealand courses are run by Lachlan Columb a Motorcycling New Zealand qualified instructor, an individual with more than 25 years motorcycle training experience, a past professional motorcycle racer and the person who developed ‘Ride Safe’ courses after working on a farm and working with farmers, farm safety advisors and to create courses that can go beyond a box ticking exercise. The main aim of ‘Ride Safe’ courses is to reduce the number of fatalities and serious harm incidents by empowering users and improving users’ awareness of modern techniques to reduce risk and harm. At ‘Ride Safe NZ’ we aim to create safer workplaces by sharing expertise, teaching the correct-modern techniques and empowering the users to conduct pre-use safety checks and consider changing environmental hazards and risks themselves.

All ‘Ride Safe New Zealand’ courses are run on-site which means we travel to your property or worksite(s) and train staff which the generic and specific terrain features, machinery and hazards and risks found specifically at that workplace. Additionally, we aim to include specific training to address any previous property/workplace incidents or accidents in a practical manner. If none have occurred, we refer to past WorkSafe investigations and look at relevant case studies to analysis the causes of fatal incidents. The common element of any workplace is a variety of skill levels within the workforce, and we can cater to those variances with our maximum user to instructor ratio of 6:1 or splitting the group into different levels.

Our courses do not stop at the NZQA basics and consider the influence of modern machinery. We also offer bespoke training courses for users of electric machines such as UBCO, Surron or Stark motorcycles. For any further questions or requirements please get in contact directly.