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As the safety representative for your business, you will face new challenges and responsibilities. This course will provide you with skills to manage your role.

Outcomes

This WorkSafe WA accredited course is designed to help build the knowledge, confidence and skills needed to be an effective Safety Representative. It will also provide you with the tools to improve the overall safety performance of your organisation.

Content

• understanding the basic legal requirements for safety at work;
• representing employees effectively;
• understanding the process for hazard identification, risk assessment and control;
• knowing how to conduct workplace inspections, accident investigations and job safety        analyses;
• identifying sources and finding information on safety matters, and;
• formulating an achievable safety action plan for your workplace.

Who should attend?

This program is designed exclusively for elected safety and health representatives. Employees who are not formally elected safety and health representatives should attend one of the following courses:

Introduction to Occupational Safety and Health

Managing Occupational Safety and Health

Role of the Safety Committee

Qualifications Available

Participants who attend this course will be offered the option to further their studies in OHS through Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) by completing a workbook and portfolio of evidence within a given time frame. Upon successfully being assessed as competent in all six (6) units, they will be issued with a Certificate of Attainment which they can use to obtain exemptions on those units through RPL when completing a Cert III in OHS. There is an additional cost of $132.00 (inc. 10 per cent GST) per participant to undertake this additional assessment.

Duration: Five days

Dates: 5-9 May 2008

Course times: 8.30am - 4.30pm (8.15am registration)

Program fee: $765 members; $954 non-members (Prices include GST on lunch component only)

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Making the transition to manager or supervisor means dealing with new responsibilities and relationships. Additional training and support during this transition can help reduce stress, increase confidence and facilitate better performance.

Outcomes

This program provides an excellent overview and introduction to the basic management skills required of new managers and supervisors. You will also develop a practical action plan to suit your individual and organisational needs.

Content

• role of the new manager or supervisor
• managing collaboratively
• communicating effectively
• recruiting staff and introducing them to your organisation
• how to manage difficult people
• implementing basic health and safety guidelines
• understanding HR principles
• feeling good about delegating tasks
• productivity improvement and managing change
• developing an action plan

Who should attend?

Newly appointed managers or supervisors - particularly those without prior formal training.

Duration: Two days

Dates: 29-30 April 2008

Course times: 8.30am - 4.30pm (8.15am registration)

Program fee: $677 members; $827 non-members (Prices include GST on lunch component only)

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Workplaces need procedures for every aspect of their business.

Outcomes

This course shows you how to write a Job Safety Analysis and how to develop this into a procedure. Procedures for the 12 major hazards are included and a matrix is developed for procedural requirements within your workplace.

Who should attend?

This course is designed for anyone in your organisation who is responsible for the design and implementation of systems, policies and procedures.

Duration: One day

Time: 8.30am - 4.30pm (8.15am registration)

Dates: 30 April 2008

Program fee: $363 members; $495 non-members  (Prices include GST on lunch component only)

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Making the transition to manager or supervisor means dealing with new responsibilities and relationships. Additional training and support during this transition can help reduce stress, increase confidence and facilitate better performance.

Outcomes

This program provides an excellent overview and introduction to the basic management skills required of new managers and supervisors. You will also develop a practical action plan to suit your individual and organisational needs.

Content

• role of the new manager or supervisor
• managing collaboratively
• communicating effectively
• recruiting staff and introducing them to your organisation
• how to manage difficult people
• implementing basic health and safety guidelines
• understanding HR principles
• feeling good about delegating tasks
• productivity improvement and managing change
• developing an action plan

Who should attend?

Newly appointed managers or supervisors - particularly those without prior formal training.

Duration: Two days

Dates: 29-30 April 2008

Course times: 8.30am - 4.30pm (8.15am registration)

Program fee: $677 members; $827 non-members (Prices include GST on lunch component only)

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Introduction to Risk Management

In today’s increasingly complex business world, it is essential to have an understanding of risk. Being able to identify potential risks as early as possible and having a plan in place to deal with these risks is incredibly important. This course aims to give delegates an understanding of contractual, commercial and financial risks and equip them to deal with these risks quickly and more effectively.

This introductory workshop will introduce the principles of risk management including risk identification and assessment, risk treatment planning and development and the integration of risk with business and organisational objectives.  The workshop will include tools, techniques and processes used in conducting a risk assessment.

Outcomes

From attending this workshop you will have:

• an understanding of risk management
• knowledge of practical risk management tools and techniques
• the ability to conduct a project or business risk identification and assessment
• greater awareness of risk management across your organisation
• greater understanding of risk management and how risks can impact on organisational    and business objectives

Content

• introduction to risk management
• AS/NZS 4630:2004, Risk Management
• risk management framework
• risk and the business objective framework
• risk identification
• risk assessment
• risk treatment
• how to conduct a business or project risk assessment
• cases studies

Who will benefit from this workshop?

The purpose of this workshop is to provide participants with a solid understanding of business risk and how to manage it.  It is particularly recommended for anyone new to risk management from supervisors through to mid-level business managers.

Presenter

Peter Moore is a Certified Practising Risk Manager (CPRM) with over twenty years experience in business management and strategic planning consulting; the last eight of which have been focused on risk management.  He has conducted risk management programs for small, medium and large organisations, and has worked with both private and public companies in the development of risk management systems. 

Duration: One day

Dates: 22 April 2008

Course times: 8.30am - 4.30pm (8.15am registration)

Program fee: $550 members; $742.50 non-members    (Prices include GST)

PRINCE2 Project Method - Foundation Training - Achieving Better Project Outcomes

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This three-day foundation course will develop your understanding of project management methods and the underlying principles supporting its application.  

Benefiting all types and sizes of projects, this cutting edge project management methodology is now viewed as ‘de-facto’ world’s best practice project management.

The training program will:

• explain PRINCE2's processes, components and techniques and how they contribute to the effective control of a project;
• explain the value of using PRINCE2 at the team, project and senior management level;
• explain the purpose of major management products;
• transfer knowledge on how to effectively apply PRINCE2, and;
• prepare participants for PRINCE2 Foundation Certification.

At the conclusion of the course participants will understand:

• the value, principles and terminology of PRINCE2;
• the purpose and content of the PRINCE2 elements;
• roles in a PRINCE2 project;
• the main purpose, and key contents of major management products;
• the relationships between project processes, deliverables, roles and the management dimensions of a project, and;
• when and how to apply PRINCE2.

Numbers are strictly limited to 15 participants per course so book early to ensure your place.

Date:	23 & 25 June, 6-8 August or 6-8 October
Venue:	CCI Training Centre, 180 Hay Street, East Perth
Time:	9.00am - 5.30pm
Cost:	$1750 per person (Price includes 10 per cent GST)

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Making the transition to manager or supervisor means dealing with new responsibilities and relationships. Additional training and support during this transition can help reduce stress, increase confidence and facilitate better performance.

Outcomes

This program provides an excellent overview and introduction to the basic management skills required of new managers and supervisors. You will also develop a practical action plan to suit your individual and organisational needs.

Content

• role of the new manager or supervisor
• managing collaboratively
• communicating effectively
• recruiting staff and introducing them to your organisation
• how to manage difficult people
• implementing basic health and safety guidelines
• understanding HR principles
• feeling good about delegating tasks
• productivity improvement and managing change
• developing an action plan

Who should attend?

Newly appointed managers or supervisors – particularly those without prior formal training.

Duration:	Two days
Dates:	13 & 14 May 2008
Course times:	8.30am - 4.30pm (8.15am registration)
Program fee:	$677 members; $827 non-members (Prices include GST on lunch component only)

Projects are of critical importance to organisations. Without a constant flow of projects, organisations would not survive. They offer the only means by which organisations can deliver change by solving problems or seizing opportunities to achieve strategic objectives.

Projects are special. The are finite, unique, risky, involve temporary teams and focus on a specific result that bring changes by revolutionary improvements. Consequently they need a special management approach - project management.

An organisation that has poor project management capability will find it difficult to effectively and efficiently achieve their strategic objectives. Project management should be a core business process in all organisations. The Introduction to Project Management course is a practical, interactive hands-on program.

Outcomes

As a result of the program, participants will:

• understand the role of projects and project management
• produce a project charter that sets out the strategic rationale and benefits for a project
• produce a work breakdown structure that sets out the tasks to achieve the project charter
• produce a project schedule
• produce a project budget
• produce a project risk register
• produce a project communication plan
• understand the concept of project success

Who will benefit from this workshop?

This workshop will be of benefit for those who have to manage projects and managers who instigate projects.

Duration:	One day
Dates:	12 May  2008
Course times:	8.30am - 4.30pm (8.15am registration)
Program fee:	$550 members; $742.50 non-members (Prices include GST )