Course Outline
Approved by Workplace Health and Safety Queensland (WHSQ) this refresher training will provide existing HSR’s with current knowledge and skills to continue to carry out their duties as required by WHS Act 2011 and the WHS Regulations 2011.
Key Learning Outcomes:
- Changes and amendment’s to legislation, codes of practice and relevant Australian Standards
- Key parties to the consultation in the workplace and their WHS legislative obligations and duties of care
- Maintaining communication and consultative arrangements for the workplace through toolbox meetings, inspections, workplace observations and committee meetings
- Revision of the duties and obligations of a health and safety representative
It is now a requirement from WHSQ that all persons who have attended the 5 day Health Safety Representative training should attend the refresher training every 12 months after the initial training to keep currency of skills & knowledge required to carry out their duties.
Face to face classroom delivery will be used to facilitate the underpinning knowledge requirements.
Assessment
Assessments will be conducted throughout the course.
On successful completion participants receive a Statement of Attendance for the HSR refresher training.
Who Should Attend?
This training applies to people who are elected by a designated group as a Health Safety Representative or deputy HSR across all industries that have completed the initial 5 day training more than three years ago.
Legislation / Compliance
New amendments to the WHS Act and WHS Regulation commenced in QLD on the 1st July 2018. This refresher course has been developed for Health and Safety Representatives to keep their skills and knowledge current and up to date with changes and amendments to legislation and reinforce the training of the 5 day programme.
Recognition of Prior Learning
Safety representatives must have completed the initial 5 day HSR program to attend this refresher training.
Language Literacy & Numeracy (LLN)
To complete this course successfully, participants need to have reasonably well developed skills in areas such as reading, writing and communication.
Examples of activities that participants will need to perform include:
- Read, interpret, WHS legislative framework
- Understand WHS consultation requirements, entitlements & responsibilities of all parties
- Resolve WHS issues through negotiation
- Report incidents & contribute to incident investigation
- Issue Provisional Improvement notices
- Direct unsafe work to cease
Refund Policy
DTE has a fair and equitable refund policy in place containing guidelines guaranteeing the refund of fees to participants under reasonable circumstances. The management guarantees that DTE has a sound financial position and safeguards participant fees until used for training. Please ask for a copy of the refund policy.
We stand by our training excellence 100% and guarantee our product. Should for some valid reason the training does not meet your expectations we shall provide a full refund.
Commitment
Our facilities and experienced instructors ensure that graduates of our courses leave equipped with the knowledge and skills required for safe work in their chosen field with the breadth and depth of knowledge required for the role. In addition we offer an on-going support service to all course participants including student drop in contact days on a monthly basis.
