The Approved Queensland Health and Safety Representative Course (HSR) with Statewide Delivery
Well trained and competent Health and Safety Representatives provide value to the organisation by managing health and safety in their workplace. They have an understanding of the Queensland Workplace Health and Safety Act and develop their skills to understand their role as a Health and Safety Representative in Queensland.
KINNECT’s Health and Safety Representative Course is one of the leading HSR Courses in Queensland. It offers students many benefits including:
- Gain the knowledge and skills required to enter the health and safety industry;
- Gain the knowledge and application of legislative health and safety frameworks;
- Learn how to identify hazards and implement controls;
- Become a health and safety leader in your workplace.
The Health and Safety Representatives training course has been designed for workers who have either been elected as Health and Safety Representatives for their workplace or for anyone looking to enter the Health and Safety Industry. For more information on the requirements to be a Health and Safety Representative in Queensland visit the Worksafe Queensland website.
This approved Workplace Health and Safety Queensland (WHSQ) program is delivered by KINNECT Training through the approved RTO status of Trainwest (RTO#51807).
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Duration
Face to Face
- Delivered over 5 days
- Light lunch included
- Includes hands on health and safety processes
- Conducted at one of KINNECT’s Training Facilities or at your Workplace
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Award / Qualification
Completion of this Health and Safety Representatives course will result in the awarding of a Statement of Attendance for this approved WHSQ-HSR-NCB01.
KINNECT works in conjunction with Trainwest (RTO#51807) to assess this course and the statement of attendance will be issued by Trainwest.
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What you will Learn
The Health and Safety Representatives’ course delivered by KINNECT is a regulated course that meets the requirements of the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011. On completion of your attendance to this 5 day training course you will have an understanding of and be able to –
- Undertake workplace inspections
- Review the circumstances of workplace incidents
- Accompany a WHSQ inspector during an inspection
- Represent the work group in health and safety matters
- Attend an interview about health and safety matters with a worker from the work group (with the consent of the worker)
- Request that a health and safety committee be established
- Participate in a health and safety committee
- Monitor compliance measures
- Investigate work health and safety complaints from work group members
- Inquire into any risk to the health and safety of workers in the work group
- Issue provisional improvement notices (where the HSR has completed the approved training).
Day 1: Interpreting the WHS legislative framework and identifying key parties and their legislative obligations and duties
- Introduction to work health and safety (WHS)
- Evolution of work health and safety and the WHS legislative framework
- New terminology, objectives and implications for consultation
- Key parties with WHS legislative duties and functions
- Role and function of WHSQ and offences and penalties under the WHS Act 76
Day 2: Establishing representation in the workplace under the WHS Act
- Consultation, representation and participation arrangements under the WHS Act
- Election and role of HSRs and deputy HSRs in the workplace
- Obligations of a PCBU to HSRs and protections for HSRs from discrimination
- Other consultation mechanisms including health and safety committees (HSCs)
Day 3: Effective consultation: Participation in issue resolution and monitoring risk controls as a HSR
- Strategies and skills for HSRs to support effective consultation
- Representing workers as a HSR – negotiation and issues resolution
- Monitoring PCBUs’ management of work health and safety risks
Day 4: Monitoring PCBUs’ management of work health and safety: workplace inspections, recording findings and ‘notifiable incidents’
- Workplace inspection and recording findings – including practical exercise
- Obligation in relation to ‘notifiable incidents’ and resources available to assist HSRs
Day 5: Issuing a Provisional Improvement Notice (PIN) and directing the cessation of unsafe work
- Issuing a PIN
- Direction to cease unsafe work
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Target Audience
The KINNECT Health and Safety Representatives course is for those workers who have been nominated as a Workplace Health and Safety Representative (HSR) in their workplace. For more information on the process of becoming a Health and Safety Representative visit the Queensland Worksafe website.
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Dates & Availability
The below dates and availability only relate to Face to Face bookings
Start Date End Date Location Places Available 8:30am Mon 13/05/2019 4:30pm Fri 17/05/2019 BRISBANE (Woolloongabba) 7 8:30am Mon 27/05/2019 4:30pm Fri 31/05/2019 ROCKHAMPTON 9 8:30am Mon 03/06/2019 4:30pm Fri 07/06/2019 BRISBANE (Woolloongabba) 4 8:30am Mon 05/08/2019 4:30pm Fri 09/08/2019 BRISBANE (Woolloongabba) 10 8:30am Mon 14/10/2019 4:30pm Fri 18/10/2019 TOWNSVILLE 15 8:30am Mon 21/10/2019 4:30pm Fri 25/10/2019 BRISBANE (Woolloongabba) 10 8:30am Mon 25/11/2019 4:30pm Fri 29/11/2019 CAIRNS 10 8:30am Mon 02/12/2019 4:30pm Fri 06/12/2019 BRISBANE (Woolloongabba) 10 -
Pricing
Face to FaceSingle Booking$745 ppSingle Person with Printed Workbook and Official Printed Copy of ActFace-to-face
5 day course
KINNECT Training Facility
In-house delivery availableFace to FaceSingle Booking$695 ppFor booking 2 or more students; Bring Your Own Laptop to Access Course Resources and save $50Face-to-face
5 day course
KINNECT Training Facility
In-house delivery available
