Managing Workplace Health & safety

Course Overview
Under occupational health and safety legislation, the employer and all staff have a responsibility to ensure safety in the workplace. As a manager/supervisor you have a particular obligation to monitor work practices and ensure that your team is trained to work safely. Failing to comply with the legislation can lead to serious penalties — large fines or even imprisonment — for your employer or you.

Complacency and accidents in the workplace are often caused because employees do not understand the reasoning behind the work practices required of them. You have an obligation to ensure that staff are regularly consulted about safety and security issues and that they understand the procedure for identifying and reporting workplace hazards.

Through your regular monitoring of staff you may identify a need for training. Sometimes training is required by law and other times it is required to perform a specific work function. It is important to identify staff knowledge and skill gaps so that you can arrange for training that is appropriate for their needs.

Maintaining OHS records is another important area of your responsibility. Not only is it a legal requirement, it is an important means of monitoring health and safety standards in the workplace.

What type of certificate will I receive?

Graduates of our Short Courses will at the conclusion of their program receive a Certificate of Completion. You could use this Certificate to prove to a potential or current employer that you have successfully participated in an online training course, offered by an RTO.

Australian students: If you require a Statement of Attainment certificate for employment in your industry, or for use in a Higher AQF Qualification, you will need to enrol in an ‘accredited’ Nationally Recognised Training unit.

You can study the accredited versions of some our short courses online with us – so please check the course’s information page for more details if this applies to you.

How do I print my Certificate?

To protect the integrity of your Certificate, it will be protected by a unique ID number allocated only to you. This number is recorded against your Profile, and if you choose to upload a Photo of yourself into your Profile, it will protect your certificate from duplication and fraudulent use.

Course Outline

This course has 6 chapters, in which you will learn how to:

• Provide information on health, safety and security
• Monitor safe work practices
• Coordinate consultative arrangements for the management of health, safety and security issues
• Implement and monitor procedures for identifying hazards, and assessing and controlling risks
• Implement and monitor health, safety and security training
• Maintain OHS records and reports.

You will progress at your own speed, page-by-page through the course listening, reading and watching the training material. Along the way you will be invited to participate in a range of self-tests and interactive, problem-solving activities. At the end of each chapter, our computer will test your understanding of the content via 20 multiple-choice questions. These 20 questions are distributed evenly across each of the 6 chapters, and you will need to answer each question correctly to move forward to the next chapter of the course.

Why Should I study this Course?

This course will provide you with the knowledge required to implement predetermined OHS policies and procedures and to monitor OHS practices designed at management level, to ensure a safe workplace. If

This course ideal training for those:

• Who are looking to become, or is responsible for providing and maintaining a safe workplace
• designated workplace persons who are the contact person for operational staff when reporting OH&S discrepancy
• Who are already working within the Hospitality or Service Industries and wish to improve their skills and/or meet their Professional Development obligations.
• That that are not involved with the Service Industries at all, but just want to know what the secrets are to planning and implementing the safe systems and procedures of a hospitality workplace