Course Title: Monitor a safe workplace

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C4246

Course Title: Monitor a safe workplace

Portfolio: BUS

Nominal Hours: 50.0

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)
OHTH5470C	City Campus	TAFE	650T TAFE Business	Face-to-Face or Internet or Workplace
OHTH5631C	Star City NSW	TAFE	650T TAFE Business	Face-to-Face or Workplace
OHTH5632C	Tabcorp QLD	TAFE	650T TAFE Business	Face-to-Face or Workplace
OHTH5633C	Billabong QLD	TAFE	650T TAFE Business	Face-to-Face or Workplace

Course Contact: Sylvia Baroutis

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 5469

Course Contact Email: sylvia.baroutis@rmit.edu.au

Course Description

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to implement and monitor the organisation’s occupational health and safety (OHS) policies, procedures and programs in the relevant work area to meet legislative requirements.

No licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of endorsement.

This unit applies to employees with supervisory responsibilities for implementing and monitoring the organisation’s OHS policies, procedures and programs in a work area.

This unit applies to individuals with a broad knowledge of OHS policies who contribute well developed skills in creating solutions to unpredictable problems through analysis and evaluation of information from a variety of sources.  They provide supervision and guidance to others and have a limited responsibility for the output of others.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Plan Code C4246GTA

For Plan Code C4246GTA, the unit BSBOHS407A Monitor a safe workplace will be co-taught with CHCCS400B Work within a relevant legal and ethical framework and BSBRSK401A Identify risk and apply risk management processes.  Participants in this program are expected to be currently employed  as a Field Officer in a Victorian Group Training Organisation.  The learning and assessment materials for this program are contextualised to the Group Training Organisation environment.

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:	BSBOHS407A Monitor a safe workplace
Elements:	1. Provide information to the workgroup about OHS policies and procedures
	2. Implement and monitor participative arrangements for the management of OHS
	3. Implement and monitor the organisation's procedures for providing OHS training
	4. Implement and monitor procedures for identifying hazards and assessing risks
	5. Implement and monitor the organisation's procedures for controlling risks
	6. Implement and monitor the organisation's procedures for maintaining OHS records for the team

Learning Outcomes

Overview of Assessment

Assessment will demonstrate evidence of the following:

• applying organisational management systems and procedures to OHS within a workgroup area
• applying procedures for assessing and controlling risks to health and safety associated with those hazards, in accordance with the hierarchy of controls
• providing specific, clear and accurate information and advice on workplace hazards to workgroup
• knowledge of legal responsibilities of employers, supervisors and employees in the workplace

Assessment will ensure:

• access to an actual workplace or simulated environment
• access to office equipment and resources
• examples of documentation relating to hazards in the workplace
• examples of documents relating to workplace safety, hazard identification and risk assessment