Course Title: Contribute to implementing and maintaining WHS management systems

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C4379 Certificate IV in Work Health and Safety

Course Title: Contribute to implementing and maintaining WHS management systems

Portfolio: SEH Portfolio Office

Nominal Hours: 50

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.

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
OHTH5893C	City Campus	TAFE	155T Vocational Health and Sciences	Distance / Correspondence or Face-to-Face or Internet or Workplace	Term1 2016

Course Contact: Warren James

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4632

Course Contact Email: warren.james@rmit.edu.au

Course Description

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to contribute to the implementation and maintenance of a Work Health and Safety management system (WHSMS) as it applies to own work area and job role.

 

It applies to individuals with responsibilities for contributing to an organisation's WHSMS as part of their work health and safety (WHS) responsibilities in a range of industry and workplace contexts.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

There are no pre-requisites for this unit.

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:	BSBWHS405 Contribute to implementing and maintaining WHS management systems
Elements:	1 Contribute to developing and promoting WHS policy 2 Contribute to WHSMS planning 3 Contribute to implementing the WHSMS plan 4 Contribute to evaluating WHS performance 5 Contribute to reviewing and improving the WHSMS

Learning Outcomes

Please refer to the Elements of Competency.

Overview of Assessment

To be deemed competent you must demonstrate an understanding of all aspects required of the competency. Assessment methods have been designed to measure your achievement of each competency in a flexible manner over multiple tasks.

 

Cluster 2: The following table details the process of assessment for this cluster of units:

BSBWHS405 Contribute to implementing and maintaining WHS management systems (WHSMS)

BSBWHS403 Contribute to implementing and maintaining WHS consultation and

Participation processes

 

Assessment Tasks	%
Task 1	Online Quiz – WHSMS	15
Task 2	Online Quiz – Consultation	15
Task 3	Assignment	35
Task 4	Assignment	35