COURSE OVERVIEW:

Welcome to the Workplace Health & Safety Management course. This program has been designed to equip you with the essential understanding of management principles, organisational responsibilities and structured processes required to create, implement and continually improve a safe and healthy workplace. You will explore what management is, how health and safety management fits within broader organisational practice, how supervisors contribute to safety leadership and how organisations measure, monitor and review their performance. This course also examines planning requirements, risk management processes, emergency procedures, auditing, benchmarking and the strategies that underpin successful health and safety outcomes.

This course begins by examining what management is, what management resources include and how these foundations support effective health and safety systems. You will explore what health and safety management involves, how to measure management performance and the role of health and safety supervisors in guiding safe behaviour and maintaining compliance. This section also examines the importance and benefits of supervisor training, the relationship between quality management and health and safety and the key features of an effective supervisor in modern workplaces. You will explore how organisations conduct a status review of their health and safety management system, the purpose of health and safety policy statements and the planning requirements necessary to integrate health and safety into operational practice. This section also examines the principal requirements for planning and the risk assessment process that ensures health and safety risks are identified, evaluated and controlled.

The next learning area focuses on the implementation, monitoring and review of health and safety management systems. You will explore how effective systems are put into practice, how organisations monitor performance and how management review drives improvement. This section also examines examples of proactive monitoring data, what the auditing process should include and how audits support regulatory compliance and performance improvement. You will explore benchmarking and the benchmarking process, including the five-step health and safety benchmarking approach and what organisations must do to succeed when comparing their performance to industry leaders.

A further learning area examines emergency procedures and approved codes of practice. You will explore how to identify risks that may require emergency response, how to establish and devise emergency procedures and what must be taken into account when planning for emergencies. This section examines the importance of clarity, communication, resource allocation and ongoing rehearsal to ensure that emergency procedures remain effective, practical and aligned with legal requirements.

Another learning area focuses on risk management and its role within workplace health and safety. You will explore what risk management is, the role it plays in preventing harm and how the risk management process operates from identification through to evaluation and control. This section also examines how organisations identify exposure to risk, how risk is prevented or controlled and the techniques used in risk management across different industries. You will explore risk identification, evaluation and measurement, including how evaluation may be based on economic, social or legal considerations. This section also examines the types of risks organisations face, the strategies used to manage them and the risk management programs that support systematic and ongoing improvement.

By the end of this course you will be able to understand the principles of management and health and safety management, recognise the role of supervisors, conduct planning and risk assessment processes, implement and monitor safety systems, evaluate performance through auditing and benchmarking, establish effective emergency procedures, apply risk management strategies and contribute to a safe, well-organised and compliant workplace.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

By the end of this course, you will be able to understand:

·       What is management?

·       What does management resources include?

·       What is health and safety management?

·       How to measure management performance?

·       The role of health and safety supervisors        

·       The importance and benefits of supervisor training   

·       Quality management and health and safety

·       The features of an effective supervisor

·       The status review of the health and safety management system

·       The statements of health and safety policy

·       Planning requirements for health and safety

·       The principal requirements for planning

·       The risk assessment process for health and safety

·       The effective implementation, monitoring and management review of a health and safety management system

·       Examples of proactive monitoring data

·       What the auditing process should include?

·       Benchmarking and the benchmarking process

·       The five-step health and safety benchmarking

·       How to succeed in health and safety benchmarking?

·       Emergency procedures and approved code of practice

·       How to identify the risks?

·       How to establish and devise emergency procedures?

·       What must be taken into account when establishing an emergency procedure?

·       What risk management is?

·       The role of risk management?

·       The risk management process?

·       The identification of the exposure to risk

·       The prevention or control of the risk

·       Techniques of risk management

·       Risk identification and risk evaluation (or measurement)

·       How risk evaluation may be based on economic, social or legal considerations?

·       The types of risks

·       Risk management strategies

·       Risk management programs

COURSE DURATION:

The typical duration of this course is approximately 2-3 hours to complete. Your enrolment is Valid for 12 Months. Start anytime and study at your own pace.

ASSESSMENT:

A simple 10-question true or false quiz with Unlimited Submission Attempts.

CERTIFICATION:

Upon course completion, you will receive a customised digital “Certificate of Completion”.