Course Title: Maintain work health and safety

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2020

Course Code: OHTH5918C

Course Title: Maintain work health and safety

School: 375T Vocational Design and Social Context

Campus: City Campus

Program: C4363 - Certificate IV in Community Services

Course Contact: Melinda Brown

Course Contact Phone: 9925 4580

Course Contact Email: Melinda.Brown@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 course describes the skills and knowledge required to implement and monitor work health and safety (WHS) policies, procedures and work practices as part of a small work team.

This course applies to workers who have a key role in maintaining WHS in an organisation, including duty of care for other workers.

 

National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:	HLTWHS003 Maintain work health and safety
Element:	1. Contribute to workplace procedures for identifying hazards and controlling risks
Performance Criteria:	1.1 Identify existing and potential hazards and record them according to workplace procedures   1.2 Contribute to the development of strategies for implementing risk controls in line with workplace procedures and policies   1.3 Implement risk controls in line with the hierarchy of risk control and workplace and legislative requirements   1.4 Identify and report issues with risk controls, including residual risk, in line with workplace and legislative requirements
Element:	2. Implement policies and procedures into work team processes
Performance Criteria:	2.1 Regularly provide information about WHS policies and procedures to the work team   2.2 Provide information about identified hazards and the outcomes of risk assessment and risk controls to the work team   2.3 Monitor housekeeping practices to ensure that WHS policies and procedures are followed   2.4 Maintain WHS incident records in the work area according to workplace procedures and legislative requirements
Element:	3. Support consultation, cooperation and communication
Performance Criteria:	3.1 Support workplace consultative procedures by encouraging work team participation in consultative activities   3.2 Report health and safety issues in line with workplace procedures and legislative requirements   3.3 Encourage and assist work team members to contribute to WHS

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 content of this course is delivered on campus while the assessments are completed online. There are two face to face workshops to introduce online learning, topics and assessment tasks. Students are able to participate in online activities and discussions to build the knowledge and skills required to complete the assessment tasks.

Teaching Schedule

Online Session	Complete Online Module 1: Introduction to Health and Safety in Community Services prior to Workshop 1  Complete Online Module 2: Working Safely in Community Services prior to Workshop 1
Workshop 1	Introduction to the course Overview of assessment tasks Learning and completing tasks in an online environment Introduction to Working safely in community services Common hazards/risks faced by community services workers Work Health and Safety Legislation Employers and workers’ rights and responsibilities for health and safety Identifying workplace hazards and potential hazards Assessing risks and developing/applying controls and analysing residual risk Work Health and Safety policies and procedures in Community Services Work Health and Safety housekeeping practices in Community Services
Online Session	Complete  Online Module 3: Identifying hazards and potential hazards prior to Workshop 2 Complete Online Module 4: Assessing risks and applying controls prior to Workshop 2
Workshop 2	Work Health and Safety workplace consultation processes and procedures - Health and Safety Representatives (HSR’S)  and Health and Safety Committees Monitoring workplace Health and Safety Compliance Work Health and Safety workplace policies and procedures for responding to a workplace incident. Work Health and Safety incident reporting and record keeping Work Health and Safety workplace emergency procedures
Online Sessions	Complete online modules below after Workshop 2 (self paced) Online Module 5: Providing WHS information to workers Online Module 6: Consulting with the work team Online Module 7: Responding to incidents and emergencies

Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts

References

Other Resources

Overview of Assessment

Assessment Task 1- Workplace Activity 

Assessment Task 2 - Presentation

Assessment Task 3 - Simulated Workplace Scenario  

Assessment Task 4 - Simulated Workplace Scenario 

Assessment Task 5 - Short Answer Questions

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task 1 - Perform a workplace risk assessment

Assessment Task 2 - Presentation Information session Workplace Health and Safety

Assessment Task 3 - Incident report

Assessment Task 4 - Emergency evacuation

Assessment Task 5 - Short Answer Questions

Assessment Matrix

Assessment matrix can be found on 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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