OHS Essentials for OHS Committees Victoria Online Course

Estimated Duration & Cost 4-8 hours $100 per person (ex GST)

Note - Self-enrolment is available via PayPal for a 10% discount (GST inc). Ask about group discounts for more than 10 persons enrolled and having the course customised to suit your organisational needs.

Overview

This course looks at the key areas of OHS Management in order to give OHS Committee Members an overall knowledge of how to think safety and how to best fulfill their roles on the Safety Committee. The course can be completed in small chunks. In fact enrolment lasts for 1 year, so you can take as long as you like to complete it.

Objectives and Course Outline

The course objectives are to provide a clear understanding of the following topics:

• Where to get safety information
• What is the legislative landscape including some sample cases
• What does an OHS Management System look like?
• Consultation
• Hazards and Risk Management
• Safety Culture
• Incident management

Who should complete the course?

Anyone in Victoria who has (or aspires to have) a safety role within their organisation. Particularly OHS Committee Members, however it would also be beneficial for Safety Coordinators, Safety Advisors, Safety Managers or Health and Safety Representatives.

Getting Started

Enrolment Link -  https://safetyinduct.com.au/course/view.php?id=94

PayPal Enrolment Instructions - To undertake this course, you will need to be a 'user'. If you are not already a safetyinduct user, click on the create new account link at the top right of the screen and set up as a new user.  You will then be able to enrol in the course and pay via PayPal (self-enrolment has a 10% discount). If you would like assistance or other payment options, contact Julie on ohsandhr@gmail.com.

Manual enrolment Instructions – Email ohsandhr@gmail.com and we can set up your enrolments and provide an invoice.

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Emergency Planning Committee Online Training Course

Estimated Duration & Cost 1-2 hours  $100 (ex GST) per person

Note - Self-enrolment is available via PayPal for a 10% discount (GST inc). Ask about group discounts for more than 10 persons enrolled and having the course customised to suit your organisational needs.

Overview & Objective

This course is part one of your overall Emergency Management Training requirements.  It provides you with the skills to undertake the Emergency Management planning required at your workplace or to review plans already in place.

Did you know that your facility needs to have an “Emergency Planning Committee” which requires at least 1 “competent person”?

Defined in Australian Standard 3745 as - A person who has acquired through training, education, qualification, experience, or a combination of these, the knowledge and skill enabling him/her to correctly perform the required task.

As with all things health and safety we need to keep evidence of compliance. A certificate from this course will provide you with evidence to support this requirement.

Learners will be able to understand the role and participate as a member of an Emergency Planning committee

Course Outline

• Why Have an Emergency Management Plan?
• Emergency Planning Committee (EPC)
• Emergency Plan and procedures
• Emergency identification and analysis
• Potential Emergencies for Venues including Fire, Internal Threats and Visitors, Medical Emergencies, Adverse Weather, Bomb Threats, Suspect Items, Active Armed Offenders, Crowd - Related Emergencies, Terrorism
• Compare your venues risks with others
• Structure of the Emergency Plan & Emergency Response Procedures
• Evacuation Diagram
• Distribution of the Emergency Plan and procedures
• Review and Routine Servicing
• Key Considerations for our Emergency Response Procedures
• Introduction and After-hours, event and non-event procedures
• Notification, Communication, Media, Social Media, Communication equipment, Control and coordination
• Children & Emergency response equipment
• First Aid, lifts and escalators & media
• Evacuation options, routes and assembly areas
• Occupants and visitors with a disability
• Personal effects, Staff protection, Search, Specialist staff, Use and characteristics of your venue, Traffic Management, Security during drill or evacuation & Emergency Colour Codes & Recovery
• Selection Criteria for ECO Members, Roles, Identification & Indemnity
• Who will make a good Chief Warden?
• Training & Response Exercises
• EPC and ECO Training
• Occupants, Visitors, Skills Retention & Training Materials
• Emergency Response Exercises or “Drills”

Getting Started

Enrolment Link -  https://safetyinduct.com.au/course/view.php?id=57

PayPal Enrolment Instructions -

To undertake this course, you will need to be a 'user'. If you are not already a safetyinduct user, click on the create new account link at the top right of the screen and set up as a new user.  You will then be able to enrol in the course and pay via PayPal (self-enrolment has a 10% discount). If you would like assistance or other payment options, contact Julie on ohsandhr@gmail.com.

Manual enrolment Instructions – Email ohsandhr@gmail.com and we can set up your enrolments and provide an invoice.