Course Title: Apply health and safety practices in the workplace

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C6072

Course Title: Apply health and safety practices in the workplace

Portfolio: BUS

Nominal Hours: 25.0

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)
OHTH5450C	City Campus	TAFE	650T TAFE Business	Face-to-Face

Course Contact: Callie Harvey

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 5772

Course Contact Email: callie.harvey@rmit.edu.au

Course Description

This unit requires the application of healthily safe working principles to jobs in the financial services industry including complying with legislative responsibilities, identification of hazards and risk control, awareness of emergency procedures, and contributing to the organisational systems for management of safety and health in the workplace. This unit is relevant for employees working under supervision. It is applied in all sectors of the industry.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Nil

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:	FNSICGEN304B Apply health and safety practices in the workplace
Elements:	1. Follow workplace safety procedures
	2. Contribute to occupational health and safety at work
	3. Identify and follow workplace procedure for hazard control and other emergency situations

Learning Outcomes

Overview of Assessment

Assessment may incorporate a variety of methods including technical requirements documentation, homework, assignments, group and/or individual projects, in class exercises, written and practical tests, problem solving exercises, presentations, direct observation of actual and simulated work practice, presentation of a portfolio of evidence which may comprise documents, and/or photographs and/or video and audio files, review of products produced through work-based or course activities.

Students are advised that they are likely to be asked to personally demonstrate their assessment work to their teacher to ensure that the relevant competency standards are being met. Students will be provided with feedback throughout the course to check their progress.