Work Health and Safety for Managers

About this course

Every organisation bears vital responsibilities concerning workplace health and safety.

It’s imperative to ensure that everyone in your business is fully aware of its obligations towards employees, customers, and the public in terms of health and safety.

Breaches can incur heavy costs for individuals and organisations, including fines, and potential imprisonment.

Employee Course

Managers Course

What the course covers

• The law
• Your duties
• Notifications of accidents
• Monitoring and enforcing health and safety
• Penalties
• Eliminating or controlling hazards
• Manual handling
• Ergonomic principles
• Work practices
• Slips, trips and falls
• Psychological hazards
• Electrical and reporting hazards
• Emergency situations
• The impact of occupational injury and disease
• Common law duty of care
• Workplace Health and Safety legislation
• Regulatory authorities
• Responsibilities of an organisation
• Officers
• Due diligence
• Incident notification
• Inspectors’ powers
• Discrimination
• Enforcement options
• Defences to a Workplace Health and Safety prosecution
• Penalties for breaching WHS legislation

What people can do afterwards

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• understand what is meant by the term health and safety
• understand their role and responsibilities
• identify, eliminate or control office hazards
• understand different aspects of health and safety in the workplace
• understand the obligations of Managers and Officers under Work Health and Safety legislation

How it is delivered

• Structured learning Designed for learners who are new to the topic or want a comprehensive overview. The course explores the subject in detail and typically takes 35–40 minutes to complete.
• Accelerated learning Allows learners who understand the topic to proceed quickly through the course in 20-30 minutes. OR ShortBurst learning – Quick summaries of specific compliance areas, available in office-based and field-based formats, each lasting 5 minutes. MicroLearns – Short modules for time-poor learners, with each module lasting 5-10 minutes.
• ShortBurst learning Quick summaries of specific compliance areas, available in office-based and field-based formats, each lasting 5 minutes.
• MicroLearns Short modules for time-poor learners, with each module lasting 5-10 minutes.

Two ways to run it

• Your policies, your scenarios

  We rebuild “Work Health and Safety for Managers” around how your organisation actually works, so the training changes behaviour instead of recording completions.

  Build a custom version

• Ready to run as it is

  Deploy the course off the shelf, with light branding if you want it. Delivered with our partner Safetrac, who will contact you directly.

  Deploy off the shelf

Either way, you can run it through our compliance platform or take it as a SCORM package for the LMS you already have.

What it costs

Off-the-shelf pricing starts at $4,000 a year for up to ten courses with your logo and colours applied, rising with how much you want changed. The tiers are the same across the catalogue, so they are set out once on the pricing page rather than repeated on all 101 courses.

If what you actually need is your own scenarios and your own policies rather than a reskin, that is a custom build, and it is the work Hungry Minds does.

Choosing an LMS

If you don’t currently have an LMS, we can help you select a platform that suits your organisation.

For smaller teams or organisations getting started, we typically recommend LearnWorlds for its ease of use and quick setup.For organisations requiring more advanced functionality and reporting, TalentLMS is a strong option.

Learn more:LearnWorlds TalentLMS

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