The following Training
Courses are currently being offered by
the Safety Systems Team:
OHS for Managers
Duration: Half Day
Aim:
- To provide managers
and supervisors with a general
introduction to OHS legislation,
to enable them to perform their
role in improving health and
safety in the workplace.
Target Audience:
- Managers, supervisors
and team leaders/leading hands.
Course Elements:
- Legislative framework
for OHS. Duties of care, OHS
Act, and associated Regulations
and Code of Practice.
- Risk Management, including
Hazard Identification, Risk Assessment
and Hierarchy of Controls.
- Issue Resolution in
regard to OHS issues.
- How to minimise OHS
Liabilities.
- Integration of OHS Plans
into Business Plans.
- Auditing OHS Management
Systems.
- Dealing with enforcement
and industrial issues.
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Managing Contractor
OHS Risks
Duration: Half Day
Aim:
- To provide strategies
and systems for dealing with
contractor health and safety
issues in the current industrial
environment.
Target Audience:
- Managers, engineers,
supervisors, health and safety
representatives.
Course Elements:
- Understand Legislative
responsibilities of employers
and contractors.
- Eliminating or minimizing
exposure to contractor OHS risks.
- Consider relevant OHS
issues when selecting and engaging
contractors.
- Evaluate contractor's
OHS capabilities and systems.
- Establish specific safety
requirements for contractors.
- Develope policies and
procedures to manage contractors.
- Evaluate and monitor
OHS performance of contractors.
- Understand practical
application of OHS risk management
principles for contractors.
- Appreciation of the
WorkSafe publication 'Managing Contractor
Health and Safety Risks - Guidelines
for Local Government'.
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Plant Safety & Risk
Assessments
Duration: Half Day
Aim:
- To provide participants
with an introduction to the OHS
(Plant) Regulations and Code
and an understanding on how to
identify hazards, carry out risk
assessments and control hazards
in relation to plant.
Target Audience:
- Managers, supervisors,
purchasing officers, maintenance
crew and operators of plant.
Course Elements:
- Legislative requirements,
including the OHS (Plant) Regulations
1995 and Code of Practice.
- Methods of identifying
hazards.
- Conducting Plant Risk
Assessments in accordance to the
Regulations.
- Hierarchy of controls.
- Reporting of hazards
in relation to plant.
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Noise
Duration: One Hour
Aim:
- To provide participants
with the skills and knowledge
required to effectively and safely
address noise issues in the workplace
in accordance with Section 18
of the OH&S (Noise) Regulations
2004.
Target Audience:
- Staff exposed to
noise hazards, managers and supervisors,
and Health and Safety Representatives.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand key legislative
requirements, including the OHS
(Noise) Regulations 1992, Code
of Practice.
- Noise control measures
to reduce exposure to noise.
- Nature and location
of noise hazards in the workplace.
- Specific noise control
measures in relation to each employee's
job.
- Reporting arrangements
for defects likely to cause excessive
noise.
- Purpose of audiometric
testing.
- Selection, use, fit
and maintenance of hearing protectors.
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Manual Handling
Duration: Half Day
Aim:
- This course aims
to provide participants with
information about identifying
and addressing issues in relation
to manual handling in the workplace.
Target Audience:
- All staff, managers,
supervisors and purchasing officers.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand key legislative
requirements, including the OHS
(Manual Handling) Regulations
1999, Code of Practice.
- Become familiar with
the structure of the spine and the
different muscle groups that are
used to support the spine.
- Recognise the main components
of a healthy back.
- Be aware of common types
of back injuries.
- Realise forces that
can be applied to the back when lifting
incorrectly.
- Be informed of how to
lift, carry and unload objects safely.
- Become familiar with
the principles of safe lifting.
- Understand concepts
in relation to identifying hazardous
manual handling.
- Participate in a class
risk assessment.
- Be able to assist in
the assessment of risk of musculoskeletal
disorders.
- Be aware of common industry
controls used to prevent musculoskeletal
injuries.
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Hazardous Substances
Duration: Half Day
Aim:
- To provide participants
with the skills and knowledge
required to effectively and safely
address hazardous substances
in the workplace.
Target Audience:
- Staff with exposure
to hazardous substances.
Course Elements:
- Legislative requirements,
including the OHS (Hazardous
Substances) Regulations 2000
and Code of Practice.
- Effects and routes of
exposure.
- Hazard identification
and risk assessment of hazardous
substances.
- Material Safety Data
Sheets.
- Reporting of hazards
in relation to hazardous substances.
- Safe handling, storage
and transport of hazardous substances
and dangerous goods.
- Selection of correct
protective clothing and equipment
when working with hazardous substances.
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Personal Protective
Equipment
Duration: Two Hours
Aim:
- To provide participants
with an introduction to the use
of personal protective clothing
and equipment.
Target Audience:
- Staff selecting
and using personal protective
equipment, including managers,
supervisors, and Health and Safety
Representatives.
Course Elements:
- Hierarchy of Controls.
- Purpose of Personal
Protective Equipment.
- Legislative requirements,
regulations and standards for personal
protective equipment.
- Nature and type of fall
hazards in the workplace.
- Risk Assessments.
- Selection, use, fit,
maintenance and storage of personal
protective equipment.
- Limitations of personal
protective equipment.
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Heat and UV Radiation
Exposure
Duration: Two Hours
Aim:
- To provide participants
with information and knowledge
which enables them to identify
heat and UVR hazards, and assist
in the control of any associated
risks.
Target Audience:
- All outdoor workers
and those involved in their workplace
management, Human Resource Officers,
First Aid Personnel and OH&S
Managers.
Course Elements:
- OH&S Act 1985
- Employer and Employee Responsibilities.
- Identification of heat
and UVR sources.
- Factors which increase
the likelihood, or worsen the effects
of heat and UVR related illnesses.
- Body temperature regulation
and how this may be assisted.
- Effects of heat and
UVR exposure on the human body.
- Identification of heat
and UVR related illnesses.
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Lockout/Tagout
Duration: Two Hours
Aim:
- To enable participants
to understand and carry out accepted
practices for any isolation system
involving the lockout/tagout
philosophy.
Target Audience:
- All employees required
to lockout/tagout machinery and
equipment.
Learning Outcomes:
At the completion of the training, participants
will be able to:
- Demonstrate the
methods involved on implementing
a lockout/tagout isolation.
- Reaffirm the importance
of lockout/tagout systems through
reference to case studies and hazardous
practices and situations.
- Make familiar the devices
used to secure a lockout/tagout.
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Height Safety
Duration: Half Day
Aim:
- To provide participants
with the skills and knowledge
required to effectively and safely
address fall prevention issues
in the workplace.
Target Audience:
- Staff exposed to
fall hazards, managers, supervisors,
and Health and Safety Representatives.
Course Elements:
- Legislative requirements
for prevention of falls. Including
the OHS (Fall Prevention) Bill,
Code of Practice for Safe Work
on Roofs, and AS 1657 Fixed platforms,
walkways, stairways and ladders.
- Effects of exposure
to falls.
- Nature and type of fall
hazards in the workplace.
- Risk Assessments.
- Hierarchy of control
measures to reduce fall risks.
- Reporting arrangements
when identifying fall risks.
- Physical barriers.
- Temporary access systems.
- Selection, use, fit
and maintenance of harnesses.
- Set up and use of fall
restraint and fall arrest devices.
- Storage and inspection
of fall arrest equipment.
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Confined Space Awareness
Duration: Three Hours
Aim:
- To provide participants
with the knowledge necessary
to identify and assist in the
assessment of confined spaces.
Target Audience:
- Managers, engineers,
supervisors, Health and Safety
Representatives who may influence
confined spaces issues, and all
staff exposed to confined space
hazards.
Course Elements:
- Legislative requirements,
including the OHS (Confined Spaces)
Regulations 1992, Code of Practice.
- Identifying confined
spaces.
- Common terms related
to confined spaces.
- Potential hazards relating
to work in confined spaces.
- Practical aspects of
confined space entry.
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Confined Space Entry
Duration: Two Days
Aim:
- To provide participants
with the skills and knowledge
required to effectively and safely
carry out duties within confined
spaces. This course is a prerequisite
for working in a confined space,
in accordance with OHS (Confined
Spaces) Regulations 1996.
Target Audience:
- Staff required to
enter, or assist with confined
space work.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand key legislative
requirements, including the OHS
(Confined Spaces) Regulations
1992, Code of Practice and AS
2865 Safe Work in a Confined
Space.
- Identify confined spaces
and demonstrate an understanding
of common terms related to confined
spaces.
- Recognise and evaluate
potential hazards relating to all
stages of work in confined spaces.
- Select and use appropriate
equipment and methods to ventilate
confined spaces.
- Select and use approved
personal respiratory protection and
associated equipment for use in confined
spaces.
- Develop and use checklists
and hazard control strategies for
confined spaces, including formal
entry permits and standby personnel.
- Enter confined spaces
and carry out required work in a
safe manner.
- Communicate and implement
first aid and rescue procedures using
approved emergency, rescue and first
aid equipment.
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Asbestos
Duration: Half Day
Aim:
- To provide participants
with the skills and knowledge
required to effectively and safely
address asbestos issues in the
workplace.
Target Audience:
- Staff exposed to
asbestos hazards, managers, and
supervisors, and Health and Safety
Representatives.
Course Elements:
- What is Asbestos?
Fibre Size &
Types.
- Brief History, Commercial
types of Asbestos (Material checklist).
- Asbestos Health Hazards.
- Asbestosis, Lung Cancer,
Mesothelioma etc.
- The 'One Fibre' Theory.
- OHS (Asbestos) Regulations
1992.
- Exposure Standards.
- Safe Working Procedures.
- Risk Assessment.
- Air Monitoring.
- Personal Protective
Equipment, Respirators, Clothing.
- Decontamination.
- Heat Stress.
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Sharps and Contaminated
Waste Handling
Duration: Three Hours
Aim:
- To provide participants
with an awareness of the risks
and methods of control associated
with occupational exposure to
sharps and contaminated waste.
Target Audience:
- Managers, supervisors
and all staff exposed to sharps
and contaminated waste in their
work environment.
Learning Outcomes:
The participants will be able to utilize
knowledge on the following topics to
enhance their safety at work when exposed
to contaminated wastes and sharps:
- Infectious blood
and body fluid borne diseases,
including routes and outcomes
of infection.
- Methods of prevention
of infection
- Immunization
programs
- Risk assessment
- Safe handling
techniques
- Post exposure actions.
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Incident Investigation
Duration: Three Hours
Aim:
- To provide participants
with skills to perform effective
incident investigation whilst
systematically identifying the
underlying or real causes. Understanding
the fundamental cause of an accident
is the first step in developing
appropriate actions.
Target Audience:
- All staff involved
in incident investigation including
managers, supervisors and Health
and Safety Representatives.
Learning Outcomes:
At the completion of the training, participants
will be able to:
- Understand the key
steps in an incident investigation.
- Identify the key information
that is required.
- Plan and conduct an
investigation.
- Analyse the data gathered
during the investigation.
- Develop and evaluate
corrective measures.
- Prepare an Incident
Investigation Report.
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