Course Overview

This course has been designed for supervisors and managers wanting to learn more about what work health and safety risk management means in the workplace. In every workplace, workers are exposed to day-to-day activities involving some kind of workplace health and safety risk, which needs to be identified and managed. These workplace risks apply to a broad range of roles across all industries and require appropriately trained and equipped employees to identify and manage them.

This training course allows you to develop the skills, knowledge and confidence required to identify work health and safety (WHS) hazards and assess and control the risk relating to those identified hazards. It involves contributing to the development, implementation and evaluation of risk controls according to legislative and organisational requirements.

Course Outline

The key areas covered by this course include:

• WHS legislation framework
• Duty holder responsibilities in WHS risk management
• WHS consultation and participation in WHS risk management
• Risk management and hazard control
• Risk controls
• Evaluation of effectiveness of risk controls

Course Inclusions

Training conducted by an experienced WHS trainer with strong knowledge of relevant legislation and Australian Standards

Certification

Learners who are deemed competent will receive a Statement of Attainment which is recognised under the Australian Qualifications Framework. This certification is nationally recognised

National unit of competency:

BSBWHS414- Contribute to WHS risk management
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Course Requirements

This is an open entry course with no pre-requisite qualifications. To ensure you complete the course successfully, the following entry requirements apply:

Participants must:

• Be aged 18 years or over
• Have recent minimum two years of industry experience
• Have sound language and literacy skills (at least Year 10 English, or equivalent)
• Able to commit to the course duration and time commitment
• Learners must have access to a computer and the internet
• Must supply a Unique Student Identifier (USI)
• Have a valid email account and a telephone with a valid telephone number for learning and assessment communication, support session