Description

Welcome to Maintain work health and safety course. This course has been designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills required to implement and monitor work health and safety (WHS) policies, procedures and work practices as part of a small work team. It applies to workers who have a key role in maintaining WHS in an organisation, including duty of care for other workers.

About this course

Training Provider: OHS.com.au with AlertForce (RTO Code 91826)

Location: Online

Course length: Approx. 4 hours (awareness version)

Time: Self-paced

Certification / Accreditation: Certificate of Completion* or Statement of Attainment depending on what is purchased

CPD Points: Yes. 4 points as certificate of completion or 5 points as Statement of Attainment.

Background – How to make your workplace safer?

Everyone is needed to ensure a safe and healthy workplace. Talk to your workers about safety, health, and work issues. They can help you identify hazards and determine the best way to manage them. This shows workers that you care about their safety and health. It is also important to consult anyone who has WHS duties for the same issue, such as when other businesses are involved with the same activity or share the same workplace.

1. Risk identification - This means finding anything that could harm people. Most hazards come from:

1. - A noisy workplace is a negative environment for employees.
2. - Equipment, materials, and substances that you use, including chemicals.
3. - How the work tasks are performed, for example lifting heavy boxes.

2. Risk evaluation - Think about what could happen if someone is exposed to a hazard and how likely it is this could happen. Do a risk assessment to find out:

1. How dangerous is a risk
2. Whether any of the control measures you use work
3. What you can do to reduce the risk
4. How quickly you must do it.

3. Risk control - The most effective control measure is to eliminate the hazard and any risk it creates. The best way to do this is to avoid introducing hazards in the first place. If you cannot eliminate the hazard, you must minimise the risks as much as you can, such as:

1. Replace the danger with something more secure
2. Separate the hazards from the people physically
3. Use an engineering control, such as a trolley to transport a heavy box rather than carrying it.

You must take administrative measures to reduce the risk, such as using safe work practices. Training and supervision should be provided to ensure that your workers are able to perform their jobs safely. Check your control measures regularly to make sure they’re working as planned. Don’t wait for something to go wrong. It’s a good idea to schedule in regular inspections of your workplace to check for new hazards and review your control measures.

4 - Keep COVID-19 safe To keep you and your employees safe and limit the spread of COVID-19, every employer should do the following at their workplace:

1. Encourage all employees to wash their hands frequently for at least 20 seconds using soap and water, or alcohol-based hand sanitizers.
2. Be aware of the symptoms of COVID-19 (fever, sore throat, and shortness-of-breath) and ensure that workers don't come to work if they feel unwell
3. Make sure that your workplace is regularly cleaned- External site and disinfected.
4. Safe Work Australia has established a COVID-19 safety and health information hub for small businesses.

It provides tailored information and tools that can help businesses manage COVID-19 risks and keep employees safe at work.

Aims and Objectives of this course

This course Maintain work health and safety (based on HLTWHS003) will help you earn the skills necessary to identify existing and potential hazards and record them according to workplace procedures and to contribute to the development of strategies for implementing risk controls in line with workplace procedures and policies. Our Maintain work health and safety course is based on the unit of competency of HLTWHS003. Whilst this course is not nationally recognized, it follows the learning outcomes and elements associated with that unit. The course contains

1. . Narrated e-learning learning resources online
2. . Online Assessment tasks
3. . Ability to download your Certificate of Completion once assessment tasks are completed

What will you learn by completing the training course?

This course will include an understanding of awareness of the relevant legislation and your responsibilities in maintaining work health and safety. Learning outcomes include:

1. . Implement risk controls in line with the hierarchy of risk control and workplace and legislative requirements
2. . Identify and report issues with risk controls, including residual risk, in line with workplace and legislative requirements
3. . Regularly provide information about WHS policies and procedures to the work team
4. . Provide information about identified hazards and the outcomes of risk assessment and risk controls to the work team
5. . Monitor housekeeping practices to ensure that WHS policies and procedures are followed
6. . Maintain WHS incident records in the work area according to workplace procedures and legislative requirements
7. . Support workplace consultative procedures by encouraging work team participation in consultative activities
8. . Report health and safety issues in line with workplace procedures and legislative requirements
9. . Encourage and assist work team members to contribute to WHS

How Is the Training Delivered?

Maintain work health and safety course is available online and completed in your own time. This Maintain work health and safety training course is based on the learning outcomes outlined above. The course is typically designed to be completed in a minimum of four hours. However, the exact length of the course may depend on your ability and prior knowledge around the subject. As the training is delivered online, you are able to complete it at your own pace.

What Accreditation Will You Get?

After completing the Maintain work health and safety course, an assessment is conducted to determine if you have understood the information presented during the training course. If you pass this assessment, you receive a Certificate of Completion.

IMPORTANT NOTE whilst this course is based on the learning outcomes of the course provided, it is important to note that it is not a Nationally Recognised Statement of Attainment unless you opt for that option. Nationally Recognised training is only really required If you specifically require that unit of competency for a qualification or licence (typically this will require a practical component, further assessment and increased costs).

This course has been designed to comply with the best practices of national health and safety standards. Terminology has been chosen for clarity and ease of comprehension across jurisdictions. For example, ‘employer’ has been used to signify the broader term ‘PCBU’, while ‘WHS’ represents both work and occupational health and safety. This training is not a substitute for professional legal advice. If you require further advice or information, please contact the health and safety regulator in your jurisdiction. A Certificate of Completion is issued on successful completion of the course and you are required to get an 80% pass mark to be deemed as understanding the content. It is recommended that training is conducted every 2 years to stay refreshed.

Is the course tax deductible?

Whilst you should get advice from your financial advisor to confirm, generally speaking further training and education related to advancing your career is 100% tax deductible.

Approx. run time: 4 hours