Course Title: Contribute to implementing and maintaining WHS consultation and participation processes

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C4379 Certificate IV in Work Health and Safety

Course Title: Contribute to implementing and maintaining WHS consultation and participation processes

Portfolio: SEH Portfolio Office

Nominal Hours: 40

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
OHTH5891C	City Campus	TAFE	155T Vocational Health and Sciences	Distance / Correspondence or Face-to-Face or Internet or Workplace	Term1 2016

Course Contact: Warren James

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4632

Course Contact Email: warren.james@rmit.edu.au

Course Description

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to contribute to setting up, running and improving work health and safety (WHS) consultation and participation processes that are prescribed in legislation. It also covers contributing to communicating relevant information identifying and delivering related training and improving the consultation and participation processes.

 

This unit applies to individuals whose job role includes contributing to implementing and maintaining WHS consultation and participation processes in their work area and job role.

 

This unit applies to people who work in a broad range of WHS roles across all industries.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

There are no pre-requisites for this unit.

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

BSBWHS403 Contribute to implementing and maintaining WHS consultation and participation processes

Elements:

1 Identify individuals and parties involved in WHS consultation and participation processes 2 Contribute to WHS consultation and participation processes 3 Contribute to processes for communicating and sharing WHS information and data 4 Contribute to identifying and meeting training requirements for effective WHS consultation and participation 5 Contribute to improving WHS consultation and participation processes

Learning Outcomes

Please refer to the Elements of Competency.

Overview of Assessment

To be deemed competent you must demonstrate an understanding of all aspects required of the competency. Assessment methods have been designed to measure your achievement of each competency in a flexible manner over multiple tasks.

 

Cluster 2: The following table details the process of assessment for this cluster of units:

BSBWHS405 Contribute to implementing and maintaining WHS management systems (WHSMS)

BSBWHS403 Contribute to implementing and maintaining WHS consultation and

Participation processes

 

Assessment Tasks	%
Task 1	Online Quiz – WHSMS	15
Task 2	Online Quiz – Consultation	15
Task 3	Assignment	35
Task 4	Assignment	35