Your Safety Committee and WHS - Training Course
Half-day course for safety committee members
Public courses available, or it can be can be delivered at your workplace or at one of our training facilities.
Course outline
A safety committee ensures that safety compliance remains at the forefront of decision-making in the organisation. A safety committee needs to understand how Workplace Health and Safety obligations are to be met within an organisation. They need to understand how to effectively contribute to implementing safety systems and addressing WHS issues as they arise.
This half-day course is designed to ensure safety committee members understand their role and function as part of the committee. It also provides an outline of WHS legislation, codes of practice and guidance around issues including hazardous manual tasks and preventing workplace falls, slips and trips.
Participants will gain an understanding of committee structure, and the importance of agendas and minute-taking. Committee members are also provided with an understanding of how WHS Laws apply to all duty position holders within the organisation.
Topics covered
- Legal requirements under the Work Health and Safety Act 2012
- Understand the obligations of a committee under WHS law
- Work health and safety consultation, cooperation and coordination
- Understand what makes an effective meeting
- Looking at your health and safety committee platform
- Purpose and role of health and safety committee
- Interpret and outline committee structures and constitution
- Build member confidence to promote active engagement in committee functions
- Facilitate power of agendas and minutes
- Overview of WHS management system
- Risk management principle
- Health and safety committee role in incident investigation
- Overview of psychosocial hazards
Who is this course for?
This course is for safety committee members.
Course Costs
- For South Australian Business Chamber Members — $440.00 (inc. GST)
- For non-members — $528.00 (inc. GST) — Become a member today to access the cheaper rate…
- Workplace Delivered (Onsite) — Please submit a training enquiry below to receive a quote
Duration
3.5 hours
Training delivery
This training is delivered on request for your organisation. It can be delivered on site at your workplace or at our training facilities. Please submit a training enquiry for further information.
Training course
Your Safety Committee and WHS
Training course
Your Safety Committee and WHS
Work health and safety training courses
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