Workplace health and safety

You'll learn

• Health and safety legislation.
• The responsibilities of employers and employees in keeping everyone safe.
• Risk management and hazard identification.
• Reporting obligations and methods.

You'll be able to

• Make sure your workplace is compliant with health and safety standards.
• Manage risks and hazards.
• Ensure all employees feel safe in their work environment.

Course outline

• Legislation and standards
• Why do we need workplace health and safety laws?
• Legislation
• Legislation in every state and territory
• Other requirements
• Levels of responsibility
• Responsibility of the employee
• Risk management
• Hazards and risks
• Dealing with workplace hazards
• Safety and health hazards
• Reporting obligations
• Accidents and near misses
• Incidents
• At risk behaviour
• Reporting incidents
• Incident investigation
• Your responsibility to report an incident
• Workplace health and safety strategies
• About the workplace
• Understanding common hazards
• Office environments
• Manual handling
• Manual handling injuries
• Manual handling policy
• The SMART principle
• Safe manual handling tips
• Ergonomics
• Smoking in the workplace
• Fire and evacuation
• Continuity after a major impact event
• Bomb threats
• Anti-bandit policy
• Drugs and alcohol policy
• Dependency on alcohol or drugs
• Workplace violence including bullying
• How can you comply

AU$299

Please contact the Cyber Institute for more details