Monitor A Safe Workplace

Tags: National Certificate 1V Qualification in OHS.

Description

Overview

Most jobs can be done either in ways that are safe, or in ways that put people’s health or safety at risk. The process of risk management involves considering all the potential risks to workers’ or bystanders’ health or safety, and working out the least risky way of doing the work. This learning object will show you how to develop and implement procedures for managing risks to health and safety at work.

The organisation’s basic commitment to ensuring that workers have safe and healthy working conditions should be expressed in an occupational health and safety (OHS) policy. The policy is the basis for the OHS program, which is a set of plans and activities reflecting the policy. The procedures are the details about how each job and task can be done in the safest way practicable.

To develop and implement procedures for managing health and safety risks at work, it is necessary to understand the principles and practice of risk management. In New South Wales, the law obliges employers to use a risk management process to fulfil their duty of care to employees and others whose health or safety may be affected by the work, such as clients or visitors.

Objectives

What you’ll learn

In this learning topic you will learn how to:

• Define the principles of risk management as they apply to a safe workplace
• Explain the principles of hazard identification, assessment and control in accordance with the hierarchy of control
• Implement procedures to control risks using the hierarchy of control in accordance with organisational procedures
• Identify and report on inadequacies in existing risk control measures in accordance with the hierarchy of controls
• Implement and monitor effectiveness of processes to identify routine hazards and assess risk

Price

$225.00 for Single User access license.

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