Practical Work Health and Safety (Australia)

Description

Protecting yourself and others from workplace injury

Workplace accidents, from small slips to electrical fires, can have detrimental impacts on workplace productivity and wellbeing. WHS accidents can cause lasting damage to property and can also lead to debilitating injuries in extreme cases. It’s up to everyone in the workplace to appropriately respond to WHS risks.

Our Practical WHS course is designed to give learners the practical skills to identify, manage and avoid a wide range of potential WHS risks. Covering office place risks, ergonomic hazards and fire emergencies, the three modules in this course comprehensively outline the various ways that injury can occur in a workplace. Quizzes and interactive scenarios test the practical skills of learners and provide realistic examples of how WHS incidents can occur.

The modules also focus on the general wellbeing of employees, including strategies for maintaining good posture to avoid eye and neck strain while working at a computer. The course also highlights safe manual handling strategies, for those whose work involves lifting or moving objects around. These lessons emphasise that workplace safety is a collective responsibility, with every individual responsible for the safety of themselves, and those around them.

Who is this training for?

This training is essential for everyone in the workplace. All workers are responsible for preventing injuries and accidents in the workplace, and employers have a duty to provide their employees a safe working environment.

“Creating a safe and healthy workplace that is free from physical and psychological harm benefits everyone”

Safe Work Australia

Course Outline

Course 1: Slips, trips and office risks (For managers and general staff)

• Hazards for slips, trips and falls
• How to prevent these hazards
• Responding to falls safely
• Risks of sedentary work and mobile phone use
• Methods to reduce these risks

Course 2: Ergonomics and manual handling (For managers and general staff)

• Risks of poor workstation design
• The features of an ergonomic workstation
• Hazards of manual handling
• Methods to reduce manual handling risk
• Risks present in remote working

Course 3: Fire and other emergencies (For managers and general staff)

• Fire hazards
• How to respond to fires
• Electrical hazards
• How your workplace plans and prepares for emergencies
• Emergencies, including first aid and evacuation

Practical Work Health and Safety is part of our comprehensive suite of compliance eLearning courses.