Course Title: Contribute to WHS hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C4379 Certificate IV in Work Health and Safety

Course Title: Contribute to WHS hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control

Portfolio: SEH Portfolio Office

Nominal Hours: 60

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)
OHTH5892C	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 performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to contribute to identifying work health and safety (WHS) hazards; assessing WHS risks; and developing, implementing and evaluating risk controls appropriate to own job role and work area.

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:	BSBWHS404 Contribute to WHS hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control
Elements:	1 Access information to identify hazards and assess and control risks 2 Contribute to compliance and workplace requirements 3 Contribute to workplace hazard identification 4 Contribute to WHS risk assessment 5 Contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of risk control

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

BSBWHS404A - Contribute to WHS hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control

BSBCMM401A - Make a presentation

BSBPMG522A - Undertake project work

 

Assessment Tasks	%
Task 1	Quiz	10
Task 2	Assignment	30
Task 3	Assignment	30
Task 4	Assignment	30