Gain an understanding of how to effectively and ethically manage training and development within any business or industry.
10 weeks, excluding orientation.
7–10 hours of self-paced learning per week, entirely online.
Upgrade your skills and knowledge in work health and safety.
This qualification is built specifically to give you specialised skills and knowledge in areas including assisting with responding to incidents, contribution to implementing and maintaining WHS consultation, and participation processes and assist with compliance with WHS laws.
Successfully completing this program will provide you with the specialised skills and knowledge to enter the workforce within work health and safety as a safety officer within many varied industries.
Founded in 2008 as a learning and development consultancy we have a strong history of delivery training and development all around the world, having designed and delivered premium learning for all industries around the globe.
Since 2015, the International Skills Group and International Skills Group has partnered with learning experts to take its education online and industry validated. These partnerships are driven by SRI’s goal to broaden access to the research and information developed through our strong industry engagement, and make it available to anyone who believes in lifelong learning.
SRI’s training scope extends to all areas education, providing our institution, partners and its future students with opportunities for further growth within Business, Community Services, Health and Post Graduate Qualifications.
As a student, you will also gain unlimited access to SRI’s CPD Training Library at no extra cost. This platform will provide you with valuable career resources and events to support your professional journey. You can look forward to benefits including leading content, career templates, webinars, workshops, and exclusive recruitment opportunities to connect you with potential employers.*
This qualification applies to individuals working in a work health and safety (WHS) role who provide a broad range of technical knowledge and skills, and have some limited responsibility for the output of others.
The qualification applies to those working as supervisors, WHS personnel, and workers in other WHS-related roles who manage risks effectively, apply relevant WHS laws, and contribute to WHS within the workplace in known or changing contexts with established parameters.
Licensing/Regulatory Information
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this qualification at the time of publication.
You’ll be welcomed to the course and begin connecting with fellow students, while exploring the navigation and tools of your Online Campus. Be alerted to key milestones in the learning path, and review how your results will be calculated and distributed.
You’ll be required to complete your student profile, confirm your certificate delivery address, and submit a digital copy of your passport/identity document.
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to assist with establishing and maintaining workplace compliance with work health and safety (WHS) laws. It includes identifying applicable WHS laws, duties, rights and obligations, and the necessary actions to ensure WHS compliance in the workplace.
It also includes assisting with providing advice about the legislative duties, rights and obligations of individuals and parties prescribed in WHS laws and those of WHS regulators.
The unit applies to those working in a broad range of WHS roles across all industries.
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to contribute to implementing and maintaining work health and safety (WHS) consultation and participation as prescribed in legislation.
It also covers contributing to communicating relevant information, identifying feedback opportunities, and improving consultation and participation.
The unit applies to those working in a broad range of WHS roles across all industries.
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to contribute to WHS risk management, which includes the processes for identifying work health and safety (WHS) hazards and assessing and controlling the risk relating to those identified hazards.
It involves contributing to the development, implementation and evaluation of risk controls according to legislative and organisational requirements.
The unit applies to those working in a broad range of roles across all industries. WHS hazard identification and risk control processes are those defined in written workplace procedures.
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to contribute to implementing a plan for a work health and safety management system (WHSMS) that applies to own role.
The unit applies to individuals with responsibilities for contributing to the implementation of an organisation’s WHSMS as part of their work health and safety (WHS) responsibilities in a range of industry and workplace contexts.
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to assist with actions and activities performed in response to workplace incidents according to work health and safety (WHS) legislative and organisational requirements.
The unit applies to those who contribute to workplace incident responses by undertaking a varied range of activities in a structured and familiar work environment as defined in written procedures. It applies to people who work in a broad range of WHS roles across all industries.
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to collect, organise, analyse and present information using available systems and sources. This includes identifying research requirements and sources of information, evaluating the quality and reliability of the information, and preparing and producing reports.
The unit applies to those who are required to analyse and apply their knowledge of the organisation to research tasks, evaluate information from a variety of sources and apply solutions to a range of predictable and unpredictable problems.
No licensing, legislation or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to plan, draft and finalise complex documents.
The unit applies to individuals who work in a range of business environments and are skilled in the creation of documents that are more complex than basic correspondence, memos and/or forms and that require review and analysis of a range of information sources.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to contribute to monitoring a range of physical agents and conditions relating to work health and safety (WHS) in the workplace. It involves the use of a range of measuring devices to collect, interpret and report on workplace information and data in relation to those physical agents and conditions.
The unit applies to those working in a broad range of WHS roles across all industries.
The unit does not extend to hazard identification, risk assessment or developing risk controls based on the outcomes of monitoring, which are covered in BSBWHS414 Contribute to WHS risk management.
This unit does not qualify individuals to perform duties as a registered officer under any legislation.
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to lead teams and individuals by modelling high standards of conduct to reflect the organisation’s standards and values.
The unit applies to individuals who are making the transition from being a team member to taking responsibility for the work and performance of others and providing the first level of leadership within the organisation. These leaders have a strong influence on the work culture, values and ethics of the teams they supervise.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to contribute to the project’s scope by assisting with identifying its objectives, deliverables, constraints, assumptions and outcomes. It also involves applying controls once the project has commenced and contribute to reviewing the suitability of those controls.
The unit applies to individuals who support project managers and other team members to apply project scope management techniques.
No licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.
Earn a certificate/qualification from SRI as recognition of your newly developed skills or previous skills which have now been recognised.
Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online, or through the submission of your employment portfolio. In order to be issued with a certificate/qualification of completion you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook.
Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you upon successful completion of the course, as per the stipulated requirements. Each qualification is issued with a QR code for instant certificate verification.
This course has been developed with input and validation from the following organisations/associations/people:
Every course is broken down into manageable, weekly modules, designed to accelerate your learning process through diverse learning activities:
International Skillls Group provides a personalised approach to online education that ensures you’re supported throughout your learning journey.
In order to complete this course, you’ll need an email account and access to a computer and the internet, as well as a PDF Reader. You may need to view Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, and read and create documents in Microsoft Word or Excel.
We recommend that you use Google Chrome as your internet browser when accessing the Online Campus. Although this is not a requirement, we have found that this browser performs best for ease of access to course material. This browser can be downloaded here.
Certain courses may require additional software and resources. These additional software and resource requirements will be communicated to you upon registration and/or at the beginning of the course. Please note that Google, Vimeo, and YouTube may be used in our course delivery, and if these services are blocked in your jurisdiction, you may have difficulty in accessing course content. Please check with an Enrolment Advisor before registering for this course if you have any concerns about this affecting your experience with the Online Campus.