Course Title: Maintain work health and safety
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2021
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 course has a blended delivery. Classes are delivered online with some demonstration of skill and knowledge conducted during face to face workshops (subject to Government restrictions due to Covid 19). During online classes information is shared through talks and discussions, and workshops where exercises are conducted to apply learning. Time is spent during these online classes for students to work on group and individual assessment tasks.
Teaching Schedule
|
Semester 1, 2021. Maintain Work Health & Safety | |
Date |
Workshop/Online Modules |
Week 1 |
Introduction to the course
OH&S and Workplace requirements
Assessment Preparation Task 1 - (Perform a Workplace Risk Assessment) |
Week 2 |
Working Safely in the workplace
Assessment Preparation Task 2 (Presentation Information session Workplace Health and Safety) Assessment Preparation Task 3 - (Incident report) |
| Week 3 |
Workplace OHS procedures, process and response
Undertake Assessment 4. (Emergency Evacuation) |
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
Overview of Assessment
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 Tasks
Assessment Task 1 - Perform a workplace risk assessment
Students perform a workplace risk assessment where they identify hazards, associated risk and then devise control measures to reduce risk.
Assessment Task 2 - Presentation Information session Workplace Health and Safety
Students will be required to present workplace health and safety information to other students.
Assessment Task 3 - Incident report
In this assessment students follow Work Health and Safety workplace policies and procedures in responding to a workplace incident and completing an incident form.
Assessment Task 4 - Emergency evacuation
Student will be required to follow emergency evacuation procedures and demonstrate an emergency evacuation
Assessment Task 5 - Short Answer Questions
Students are required to provide responses to knowledge-based 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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