Course Title: Manage work health and safety
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: VE 2021
Class Number: 2104
Class Section: VALS
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Course Code: OHTH5926C
Course Title: Manage work health and safety
School: 375T Vocational Design and Social Context
Campus: City Campus
Program: C5397 - Diploma of Community Services
Course Contact: Fiona McLean
Course Contact Phone: 03 9925 3673
Course Contact Email: fiona.mclean@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
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.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
None.
Course Description
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to establish, maintain and evaluate work health and safety (WHS) policies, procedures and programs in the relevant work area, according to WHS legislative requirements.
This unit applies to workers who have responsibility for WHS as part of their role, including workers with obligations under WHS legislation requirements.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
HLTWHS004 Manage work health and safety |
Element: |
1. Establish work health and safety practices |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Access and interpret legislation, regulations, code of conduct and workplace policies and procedures for WHS 1.2 Develop procedures for ongoing hazard identification, and assessment and control of associated risks 1.3 Ensure risk controls and hazard-specific procedures are consistent with the hierarchy of control and are monitored to support compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements 1.4 Identify requirements for expert WHS advice, and request this advice as required |
Element: |
2. Facilitate consultation, cooperation and communication |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 Develop and provide consultative WHS activities to provide advice in relation to work health and safety issues 2.2 Monitor processes for ensuring that workers have an opportunity to contribute feedback on health and safety issues 2.3 Document outcomes of consultation and communicate to workers 2.4 Develop and implement processes to ensure that responsibilities and duties are documented and accountability processes are in place 2.5 Implement and monitor training programs to ensure identified WHS training requirements are addressed, including induction process |
Element: |
3. Monitor compliance with risk control processes |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1 Develop WHS record-keeping policies and procedures and provide information to workers 3.2 Monitor hazard, incident and injury reporting processes to meet legislative requirements and to inform future prevention strategies 3.3 Evaluate WHS record-keeping policies and procedures for compliance with legislative requirements |
Element: |
4. Evaluate and maintain WHS |
Performance Criteria: |
4.1 Determine WHS priorities in consultation with work group 4.2 Develop a WHS action plan taking account of priorities and training needs 4.3 Identify potential barriers to improvement 4.4 Establish processes to monitor achievement against the plan and update plans as required |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this course you will have developed and applied the skills and knowledge required to demonstrate competency in the above elements.
Details of Learning Activities
This course will be a blended delivery online via Canvas/Collaborate Ultra with some face to face demonstration of skills and knowledge.
Teaching Schedule
Workshop 1 and 2
Introduction to work health and safety
- Legal aspects of WHS – legislation, regulations, codes of conduct and and workplace policies and procedures for WHSEthics of WHS
- Establishing WHS practices
- Hazards – procedures for ongoing hazard identification, assessment and control of associated risks
- Working within hierarchy of control and within legislative and regulatory requirements
WHS Records
- Develop WHS record-keeping policies and procedures and make this information clear to all workers
- Monitor hazards, incident and injury reporting processes to meet legislative requirements and to inform future prevention strategies
- Evaluate WHS record-keeping policies and procedures for compliance with legislative requirements
Consultative activities
- Develop and provide consultative WHS activities to provide advice in relation to WHS issues – what is required to ensure workers have opportunities to contribute feedback re WHS issues?
- Look at strategies and examples
- How to ensure that consultation outcomes are communicated to all workers – documentation and accountability processes
- Determining WHS priorities in consultation
WHS Training
- The importance of induction processes
- Ensuring that identified WHS training requirements are addressed (from consultation processes)
- Developing a WHS action plan to address WHS priorities and training needs
- Establish how to monitor progress and achievement against the plan and when to update plan
Assessment task 1 Home visit procedures
Assessment task 2 Coordinate an emergency
Workshop 2& 3
Barriers and improvements
- What are potential barriers to a safe workplace - and how to overcome them
- Improving processes and procedures
- Conducting a workplace risk assessment
- identification of hazards
- and potential hazards
- Risk assessmentEvaluation of policy/procedure in line with state/territory legislation and industry guidelines
- Development of risk controls and measures
- Emergency situations - coordinating a workplace procedure
Assessment task 3 Knowledge questions
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
Please refer to the RMIT student page for extensive information about study support, assessment, extensions, appeals and a range of other matters: rmit.edu.au/students
Overview of Assessment
Assessment includes practical demonstrations, group activities, reflection and supervised placement hours within the community services industry.
Assessment Tasks
Assessment task one: WHS for home visits and workers safety
Assessment task two: Coordinate procedures for a workplace evacuation
Assessment task three: WHS knowledge questions
Assessment Matrix
The assessment matrix is located in Canvas at the end of each assessment task.
Other Information
Please refer to the RMIT student page for extensive information about study support, assessment, extensions, appeals and a range of other matters: rmit.edu.au/students
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