COURSE OVERVIEW:

It’s an employer’s responsibility to make sure employees are working in a safe and healthy environment. That is why they must take measures to ensure the safety of everyone- that includes their physical safety and welfare. The safety and health of employees needs to be a main priority for employers.

In order to maintain a safe work environment, you should consistently search and eliminate workplace hazards. You can do this by conducting routine maintenance and housekeeping measures. Educate employees on identifying hazards and risks and have them report to you if they encounter any.

Part of your safety mission should be to avoid accidents from happening. Prevention is key when it comes to safety in the workplace. This is why you should make your safety program specific and prompt corrective action to be taken in the event of an injury or accident. If an accident does occur, you must have a plan to aggressively find out what was the cause of the accident and eliminate it to prevent further accidents from occurring.

Employers and employees need to have a clear idea of the risk management process in place. Risk management frameworks need to be identified, analysed, and revised from time to time. Appropriate documentation of its planning and implementation is required for a zero tolerance of risks to be in effect. This maintains a safe working environment and ensures the well-being of all its workers.

This course explains how to establish, maintain and evaluate the organisation’s work health and safety (WHS) policies, procedures and programs in the relevant workplace, according to WHS legislative requirements.

The first part introduces the Work Health and Safety Management, regulations, codes of practice, national standards and WHS roles and responsibilities. Then discusses how to establish and maintain effective participation arrangements for managing WHS.

The second part explains how to maintain procedures for effectively identifying hazards, and assessing and controlling risks in a workplace to improve quality and maintain compliance. Then discusses the ways to evaluate and maintain a WHS management system.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

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

• What is meant by Work Health and Safety Management?
• What are WHS policies?
• The components of an effective WHS workplace policy
• What objectives should be included in a WHS policy?
• The WHS regulations, codes of practice and national standards
• The basic concepts of WHS that need to be developed in policies and applied in the workplace
• The duties and responsibilities of the PCBU
• The duties and responsibilities of an officer
• The duties and responsibilities of the workplace health and safety representative (HSR)
• The financial implications of WHS
• Why review your wish list against financial and strategic plans?
• What is included in the records associated with the effective operation of an organisation?
• What is included in labour resources?
• What is included in financial resources?
• WHS representatives and worker participation
• What is required for consultation under the WHS 2011 Act?
• The benefits of worker participation
• The benefits of an effective health and safety consultation
• The steps to resolve a WHS issue
• Hazard identification
• What is required from the PCBUs and managers under the WHS 2011 Act?
• The sources of hazards in a workplace
• How to carry out the inspection of a workplace?
• The risk assessment process
• Why any changes in the workplace can create hazards?
• The ways of identifying hazards at the planning, design and evaluation stages
• How to identify the potential hazards related to change?
• The hierarchy of controls
• The determination of consequence, probability and risk ranking
• Risk minimisation and action planning
• The resources that can address inadequacies in existing risk control measures
• How to utilise specialist advice?
• How to select a specialist or technical adviser?
• The important points to consider when assessing the requirement for intervention
• The importance of WHS induction and training
• Why training is more effective with a systematic approach?
• The benefits of a systematic approach in training
• The induction and training programs
• The importance of reporting and recordkeeping of WHS incidents
• When should an injury or illness be considered as serious and notifiable?
• What is meant by dangerous incidents?
• How to evaluate the WHS management system?
• What constitutes a work health and safety management system (WHSMS)?
• How to review the WHSMS?
• The importance of quality improvement in the WHSMS
• How to audit and evaluate the WHSMS?
• How to maintain compliance with the WHSMS?

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.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

You must have access to a computer or any mobile device with Adobe Acrobat Reader (free PDF Viewer) installed, to complete this course.

COURSE DELIVERY:

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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”.