About the Course

This training provides attendees with practical knowledge and skills to assess workplace risks and plan work safely.

Attendees will learn how to break a job into individual steps, identify hazards associated with each step, assess the level of risk and determine appropriate control measures. The course also covers the wider risk management process, including how controls are monitored and reviewed to make sure they remain effective.

Participants will apply these principles to workplace tasks and develop a Job Safety Analysis and work method statement for a specified job.

What You Will Learn

• The purpose of Job Safety Analysis and workplace risk assessment

• How to identify a job, work activity and the key steps involved

• How to gather the information needed to plan work safely

• How to identify workplace hazards

• How to assess and rate health and safety risks

• The principles of the risk assessment process: identify, assess, control, monitor and review

• How to select appropriate control measures using the hierarchy of controls

• How to identify who is responsible for implementing and monitoring controls

• How to prepare a work method statement

• How to produce a Job Safety Analysis for a workplace task

• How to monitor managed risks and determine whether controls remain effective

• How and when to review a risk assessment

• How JSA, safe work methods, procedures and other workplace systems support risk management

Course Details

• Duration: 8 hours

• Location: Unit 36, 159 Gorge Road

• Price: $300 + GST per person

• Includes: Morning tea and lunch. Please advise any dietary requirements before the course.

• Delivery: Face-to-face training

• Private Courses: Available on request

This course is run periodically. Contact us to find the next available date or to book a private session.

Who Should Attend

This course is ideal for:

• Workers responsible for completing Job Safety Analyses

• Supervisors and team leaders

• Health and Safety Representatives and Committee members

• Workers involved in planning or supervising higher-risk work

• Managers responsible for workplace risk management

• Maintenance, construction and operational personnel

• Businesses wanting to strengthen their hazard identification and risk management processes

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