Courses

A core skill is a personal attribute that supports situational awareness and enhances an individual's ability to get a job done.

Core skills include a wide variety of communication and people skills, social attitudes, personality traits, and emotional intelligence. These qualities are increasingly important for success in the workplace. Everyone can benefit from focused training and development to help them realise their full potential.

These are online courses only.

Our core skills courses cover the following key areas:

Work Health and Safety Courses

Workplace Health and Safety core skills courses relate to skills and knowledge for the safe execution of tasks in an office or construction environment. The courses include:

• Asbestos Awareness
• Silica Dust Awareness
• Fire Safety
• Manual Handling 
• Office Ergonomics
• Risk Management
• Working in hot and cold environments 

Business Administration Courses

The business administration core skills courses relate to skills and processes relevant to undertaking business administration. This may include social media etiquette, digital technology, and writing basic workplace documents. The courses include:

• Cyber Security Awareness
• Social Media Etiquette
• Basic Estimating and Calculating at Work
• Using Digital Technology in the Workplace
• Basic Workplace Mathematics
• Writing Basic Workplace Documents

Personal Development Courses

Personal development core skills courses relate to skills required by workers in a business. This may include self development, participating in a learning environment, and using basic reading and writing skills at work. The courses include:

• Self-Development
• Prepare for Learning at Work
• Participate in a Learning Environment 
• Use Basic Reading and Writing Skills at Work 

Working in a Team Courses

Working in a team core skills courses relate to skills required by workers in a business, specifically in a team environment. This may include communicating, interacting effectively, and how to respond to problems in the workplace. The courses include:

• How to Respond to Problems in the Workplace
• Interact Effectively in the Workplace
• Teamwork
• Communicating in a professional environment

Course Outcomes

Course Recognition 

On successful completion of these courses, learners will be issued with a Certificate of Attendance.

Course Fees

MPAQ Member Discount

MPAQ members (excluding associate retired and associate apprentices) are eligible for a discount on MPAQ courses. 

In order to access the discount you must fulfil one of the following eligibility requirements:

• You must be a member for at least one year if paying for membership monthly; or 
• You must pay for your membership upfront for one year. 

It is strongly recommended to have a current email address and access to a computer with internet. 

The program used for this online training program runs best on a non-Apple device. Please use Chrome as your internet browser where possible.

Academic Integrity

Students are expected to submit original work and maintain academic integrity at all times. Plagiarism, cheating, or submitting work that is not your own is not permitted.

This includes:

• Copying another person’s work
• Sharing answers or allowing others to copy your work
• Using AI or online tools to generate assessment responses
• Submitting fabricated, altered, or misleading evidence
• Claiming authorship of work that is not your own

Using another person’s language, ideas, or expressions without proper acknowledgement is considered plagiarism.

Students are responsible for following the assessment requirements and conditions for each task and for participating in learning and assessment activities ethically.

MPAQ takes academic integrity and plagiarism seriously. When submitting an assessment, students must sign a declaration confirming that the work is their own. Assessments submitted without a signed acknowledgement on the cover sheet will not be marked.

If a breach of academic integrity or plagiarism is identified, the student may be contacted to provide further information. Confirmed breaches may result in reassessment, suspension, or cancellation of enrolment. Where enrolment is cancelled, re-enrolment may be required, and associated fees may apply.

To enrol, please click the link at the top of this page or click here to download and complete an enrolment form.

If you have any questions, call the MPAQ Training Services team on 07 3273 0800.

Please send completed enrolment forms to training@mpaq.com.au.