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Workplace Safety - Promote a Safety Culture

Promoting a safer working environment is not just a practical consideration. Ensuring legal compliance and reducing exposure to claims can deliver significant savings and productivity benefits to any organisation. Throughout this program, participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of the duty of care requirements within the workplace. Skills and processes for motivating workgroups to adopt responsibility in creating a safer workplace are a key focus.

Learning outcomes

  • Establish and maintain an occupational health and safety system

  • Establish and maintain participative arrangements for the management of occupational health and safety

  • Establish and maintain procedures for identifying hazards, and assessing and controlling risks

  • Establish and maintain a quality occupational health and safety management system

Content includes

  • History of the current workplace safety legislation

  • Statistics on costs of accidents in the workplace

  • Occupational health and safety information – formal and informal sources

  • Record keeping

  • The Occupational Health and Safety Acts

  • Occupational health and safety tools and techniques

  • Occupational health and safety risk management

  • Risk assessment

  • Risk control

  • Evaluating control measures

  • Demonstrating commitment to safety

  • Getting the team involved in safety

Designed for

All managers working at the frontline of an organisation, from supervisors and team leaders through to business unit and divisional managers.

Relationship to national competency standards

BSB CMN 311A Maintain workplace safety
BSB CMN 411A Monitor a safe workplace
BSB MGT 505A Ensure a safe workplace

Program duration
1 day

Qualification pathway

A core unit of the Certificate III, Certificate IV and Diploma of Business (Frontline Management).

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