HLTWHS001 - Participate in workplace health and safety

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:
There must be demonstrated evidence that the candidate has completed the following tasks at least once in line with state/territory WHS regulations, relevant codes of practice and workplace procedures:

• contributed to a WHS meeting or inspection in workplace
• conducted a workplace risk assessment and recorded the results
• consistently applied workplace safety procedures in the day-to-day work activities required by the job role
• followed workplace procedures for reporting hazards
• followed workplace procedures for a simulated emergency situation.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

• state/territory legislation and how it impacts on workplace regulations, codes of practice and industry standards, including:

• state/territory WHS authorities
• rights and responsibilities of employers and workers, including duty of care
• hazardous manual tasks
• infection control

• safety signs and their meanings, including signs for:

• dangerous goods classifications
• emergency equipment
• personal protective equipment (PPE)
• specific hazards such as sharps, radiation

• hazard identification, including:

• definition of a hazard
• common workplace hazards relevant to the industry setting
• workplace procedures for hazard identification

• workplace emergency procedures
• workplace policies and procedures for WHS