Health and Safety Representative - Year 2

Course Overview

In your second year as a Health and Safety Representative (HSR), you are ready to learn how to effectively and constructively represent your work group or committees in health and safety matters.

This is the second program in a series of three, as part of your Safework approved HSR training entitlement.

This course highlights the need to collaborate and communicate effectively to create a positive workplace safety culture. It will ensure HSRs have the confidence to coordinate, engage and continue to represent their working groups in regard to safety matters, including multiple hazards and complex risks.

HSR's are legally obliged to identify reasonably foreseeable hazards that may put staff to be at risk. The Chamber will help HSRs identify and mitigate hazards.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the principles and practices of a systemic approach to managing and controlling multiple WHS risks.

• Understand the responsibilities and duties of PCBUs, hazard risks and shared duties.

• Provide a refreshed understanding of HSR duties.

• Identify various elements of due diligence requirements of PCBUs and officers associated with managing specific and multiple hazards in a shared work environment.

Duration

3 days