Enrolments are now open for the Safety Academy by Qantas Group, Australia’s first dedicated safety education academy developed in partnership with Griffith University.

The Academy is designed to train Australia’s next generation of world-class safety professionals across all industries, specifically targeting high reliability organisations, including but not limited to aviation

Participants do not need to be in a safety-related role or specific industry to enrol in the academy.

Griffith will offer two micro-credentials to participants initially with these being delivered over an eight to 12-week period via online learning, with the courses to cover critical areas including safety culture, risk management, data management, cyber safety, and human safety factors such as sleep and fatigue management.

Participants can enrol in one or as many micro credentials as they wish.

Vice Chancellor and President, Professor Carolyn Evans, said Griffith was proud to partner with Qantas, providing a Queensland base in the state where the airline was founded.

“Griffith will offer an Ethical Safety Leadership micro-credentials course to equip leaders with the necessary skills to understand, manage and support the legal and ethical considerations which are essentials to maintaining safety in the workplace with a focus on industries with high regulatory and safety standards,” Professor Evans said.

“We’re also offering a Safety Principles and Culture micro-credential course which takes an in-depth look at safety as a discipline, tracing its evolution and exploring contemporary safety practices across industries.”

Qantas Group CEO Vanessa Hudson said Qantas was proud to be sharing its more than 100 years of operational experience to inform safety training that will upskill Australians and help make workplaces safer.

“We’re incredibly proud to be leading this Australian-first initiative in partnership with Griffith University and RMIT University,” she said.

“A safe workplace protects people, but it also builds trust, enables performance, and creates an environment where everyone can thrive.”

Griffith’s Ethical Safety Leadership course involves six modules which will cover understanding human error and the reasons behind rule-breaking behaviour, plus the importance of self-reflection and psychosocial wellbeing.

The Safety Principles and Culture course will involve six modules which will explore the topics of human factors, organisational culture and resilience and is designed for learners who currently work in, or aspire to work within, a high reliability organisation which operates complex, high-risk environments and consistently avoid catastrophic failure.

Griffith will develop an additional four micro credentials which will be added to the academy offerings in 2026, which will be informed by learnings and feedback from its initial intakes.

The long-term aim is for the academy to offer postgraduate qualifications, followed by advanced research programs.

Enrolments are now open, with the first intake expected to commence in January 2026.

For more information about the academy and to enrol, visit www.qantas.com/safetyacademy.