Course Title: Ensure a safe workplace

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C5222 Diploma of Management

Course Title: Ensure a safe workplace

Portfolio: DSC 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.

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

OHTH5476C

Brunswick Campus

TAFE

350T Fashion & Textiles

Face-to-Face

Term1 2009,
Term2 2012

Course Contact: Peter Bonnell

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 9171

Course Contact Email: peter.bonnell@rmit.edu.au



Course Description

The unit is concerned with establishing, maintaining and evaluating the organisation’s Occupational Health and Safety policies, procedures and programs in the relevant work area in accordance with OHS legal requirements. All those who have (or are likely to have) a management responsibility for OHS should undertake this unit.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None



National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

BSBOHS509A Ensure a safe workplace

Elements:

1.Establish and maintain an Occupational Health and Safety system

2. Establish and maintain participative arrangements for the management of Occupational Health and Safety

3. Establish and maintain procedures for identifying hazards, and assessing and controlling risks

4 Establish and maintain a quality Occupational Health and Safety management system


Learning Outcomes

•By he wend of the course you will be able to establish and maintain an OHS system, establish and maintain participative arrangements for the management of OHS, establish and maintain procedures for identifying hazards, and assessing and controlling risks and establish and maintain a quality OHS management system


Overview of Assessment

A person who demonstrates competence in this unit must be able to provide evidence that they are have an understanding of the principles and practices of effective Occupational Health and Safety management, principles and techniques associated with modelling safe work practices, hazard identification and risk management, plus the knowledge of how to develop and promote a safety culture. Assessment is done by the submission of a portfolio showing competency in work undertaken and application to theory to the work undertaken