Health & Safety Committee Training

Leading Health and Safety Committee Training for a Collaborative Safety Team.

The Health and safety Committee can be an effective medium for understanding, managing and communicating safety through your workplace. Get your stakeholders working effectively together on managing safety can be challenging with a range of obstacles contributing to poor safety culture and performance. Is safety performance at risk in your workplace with –

• Stakeholders not knowing their responsibilities in the work health and safety framework;
• Stakeholders not understanding how to work together effectively to improve processes and prioritise activities;
• Stakeholders not effectively understanding the risk management principles;
• Stakeholders not recognising and respecting the varying priorities of the business.

What You Will Learn

The KINNECT Training Health and Safety Committee Training Program is a full 1 day program. It includes theory with active discussion along with a variety of case studies and role play activities. All with reference to your organisational polices and procedures. In addition the course aims to provide participants with information to assist in enhancing existing consultation mechanisms.

The following topics are covered and organisation contextualisation is available and encouraged.

Topic 1: Introduction to legislation 

• Legal framework or workplace health and safety;
• An introduction to relevant Acts, Regulations and Codes of Practice
• Understanding duty holders – the PCBU, Officers, Workers and Others;
• Understanding penalties;
• Introducing Health and Safety Representatives (HSR’s), Health and Safety Committees and Work Health and Safety Officers (WHSO’s)

Topic 2: Functions of Health and Safety Committee

• Establishing a Health and Safety Committee;
• Health and Safety Committee membership;
• The Health and Safety Committee constitution;
• The Functions of the Health and Safety Committee;
• Meeting Times;
• PCBU Obligations;
• Health and Safety Committee type and size;
• Effective practices of Health and Safety Committees;
• Issue Resolution principles.

Topic 3: Roles and Responsibilities

• Committee Chair;
• Health and Safety Representatives (HSR’s);
• Health and Safety Committee members;
• Protections;
• Record Keeping.

Topic 4: Consultation and Communication

• Stakeholders with responsibilities;
• Benefits of consultation;
• Consultation procedure;
• Nature of consultation;
• When to consult;
• Effective consultation;
• HSC/HSR/WHSO in consultation;
• Access to information;
• Confidentiality;
• Shared consultation arrangements;
• Consultation/coordination/cooperation;
• Effective Communication Principles;
• Communicating Work Health and Safety information.

Topic 5: Contributing to the Management of Safety in the Workplace

• Safety Management Systems
• Risk Assessments
• Investigations
• Health and Safety Committee roles

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