Work Health and Safety

This component provides an overview of the:

• key aspects of WHS legislation;
• legal obligations of a PCBU including workplace incidents or injury prevention/reduction; and
• regulatory framework under specific state and territory regimes. 

• duties of a PBCU;
• what is a "primary duty of care"; 
• who is a worker and what is the workplace;
• duties of workers and others;
• the hierarchy of control; and
• offences and penalties.
   

This component considers who is an officer of a PCBU and the due diligence required to ensure that the PCBU complies with its WHS duties.   

This component considers the PCBU’s requirement to consult not only with its own employees, but also with contractors, subcontractors and its workers and consultation between PCBUs.   

This component considers the following:

• introduction to “notifiable incidents”;
• what is a notifiable incident;
• how to reduce the risk of a notifiable incident; and 
• dealing with regulator investigations.

This component will enable you to recognise that WHS is not limited to physical health, and offers practical examples of its broader application, including:

• working from home;
• smoke-free environments;
• bullying, discrimination and sexual harassment; and
• cultural considerations.

We close this course by seeing your WHS system as being adaptive to new laws, risks and hazards as they arise, in addition to the individuality of each business.