Workplace Safety

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.

Workplace Safety is designed for:

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

Content

• 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 and control
• evaluating control measures
• demonstrating commitment to safety
• getting the team involved in safety.

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.
  

Units of competency

• BSBOHS407A Monitor a safe workplace
• BSBOHS509A Ensure a safe workplace

Duration
1 day