Introduction to workplace safety

You'll learn

• The essential principles and requirements of workplace safety
• How workplace health and safety relates to your workplace.

You'll be able to

• Better understand business responsibilities and obligations
• More confidently identify health and safety strengths, shortfalls and needs in your workplace

Course outline

• OH&S legislation
• Legislative structure
• Australian standards
• Duty of care
• Common law
• Duty of care obligations
• Meeting obligations
• Injury, illness and dangerous events
• Reporting incidents
• Types of incidents
• Who can help?
• Implications of an unsafe workplace
• Incidents versus accidents
• Causes of accidents
• The work system
• Impact
• Investigation
• Why investigate?
• Prevention or blame
• Establishing causes
• The investigation team
• The investigation
• Planning and implementing safety
• Responsibility
• OH&S policy
• OH&S procedures
• Induction and training
• Competencies and staff training
• Implementing safety
• Safety audits
• Safety audit factors
• Audit checklist

AU$99