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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)