Workplace Health & Safety Fundamentals

Overview

This course is to provide you with the fundamentals of WHS responsibilities of workers in promoting a safe workplace. It describes the process of how to effectively resolve WHS issues and explains the risk management approach.

Outline

This course covers the following topics:

• WHS legislation fundamentals
• WHS responsibilities for employees
• Hazard Management
  • Hazard Identification, Risk Assessment & Risk Control
  • Risk Control to include reference to Elimination, Engineering, Substitution, Administrative, PPE
• Accident / Incident Reporting
• Electrical Hazards
• Emergency response procedures
• Communicating WHS issues
• Fatigue Management
• First Aid
• Hazardous substances (including reference to Safety Data Sheets)
• Noise (protection)
• Safe Work Method statements
• Safe Manual Handling (including slips, trips & falls)
• Workspace ergonomics
• Working at Heights

Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Explain relevant WHS legislation and responsibilities
• Identify Hazard Management process
• Respond and react appropriately to an emergency
• Change your workspace so it is ergonomically appropriate
• Understand safe manual handling in the workplace
• Identify importance of Safe Work Method Statements
• Report incidents or accidents
• Identify how to manage fatigue
• Understand basic first aid (e.g. DR ABCD)
• Take safety precaution to minimize noise in workspace and understand the effects of ‘Noise induced hearing loss’ (NIHL)
• Identify how to work safely at heights