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Health and Safety Representatives Training Course
Discover the essential skills and knowledge to fulfil the requirements of the WHS Act and create a safer workplace for all your workers and customers. To be recognised by WorkSafe, people attending this course MUST be a Health and Safety Representative (HSR).
5 Days
Overview
This course will assist Health and Safety Representatives to confidently and competently engage everyone in meaningful communication about the risks and remedies for incidents and injuries in the workplace.
A 'representative' means a Health and Safety Representative or deputy HSR duly elected in accordance with the WHS Act.
Pre-requisites and co-requisites
Persons eligible for the WorkSafe WA HSR Training are HSRs or deputy HSRs elected under the WHS Act.
Who will benefit
This workplace health and safety course is designed for elected HSRs under the WHS Act who have requested approved training to gain an understanding of the management of work health and safety under the WHS legislation and their role and entitlements as HSRs.
Managers and supervisors may also attend to gain knowledge of the requirements under the WHS Act and gain a better understanding of the roles and responsibilities of their HSRs.
Content
This health and safety representative course will provide HSRs with information and skills relating to:
- WHS Act legislation frameworkÂ
- The role and functions of WorkSafe WA and its interaction with HSRs
- Duties and responsibilities of Persons Conducting a Business or Undertaking (PCBUs), officers, workers and other parties under the legislation
- The nature of the consultation process with workers as required of the primary PCBU by the Act
- The purpose of formation of a work group (or work groups) within the workplace
- Election process for HSRs and duty HSRs, and disqualification provisions
- Health and Safety Committee (HSCs)
- The entitlements, rights and protections of an elected HSR and deputy HSR
- Risk management and the use of risk controls, including the duties and responsibilities of the various PCBUs under the legislation
- How HSRs can use their functions to contribute to risk management activities in the workplace
- PINs and the right to cease, or direct the cessation of, unsafe work.
Learning Outcomes
You will learn to:
- Understanding the current WHS legislative framework and its relationship to the HSR role
- Use negotiation, communication and problem-solving skills and strategies to represent a work group and to resolve work health and safety issues
- Understand hazard identification, risk assessment and control practices and tools
- Conduct workplace inspections and incident investigations
- Issue PINs and direct unsafe work to cease.
What past course attendees say:
This course will provide you with the opportunity to complete the units of competency required under Schedule 26 of the Work Health and Safety (Mines) Regulations 2022. This course runs in Perth and select regional locations.
For Workers.
Enhance your understanding of psychosocial hazards, the role you play in reporting them and discover effective measures to mitigate their impact. As a worker, you may be exposed to these hazards. This course will offer strategies for how you can respond efficiently. This course runs in Perth and select regional locations.
With significant updates to the WHS legislation and changes in the ways workplaces apply this legislation, if you are a Health and Safety Representatives (HSR), you will benefit from this refresher course.
This course will assist managers, supervisors and team leaders to understand their responsibilities under our WHS laws and develop the skills needed to effectively manage safety in the workplace.