SITXWHS002 - Identify hazards, assess and control safety risks

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Unit code: SITXWHS002 | Study level: TAFE
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Overview

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to identify hazards, assess the associated workplace safety risks, take measures to eliminate or minimise those risks, and document all processes.

Assessment

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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:

  • use organisational work health and safety (WHS) plan to identify each of the following types of actual or foreseeable workplace hazards: physical environment; plant; work practice, and; security issue;
  • assess the safety risk associated with each of the above hazards, using appropriate risk assessment tools and template documents, and;
  • take measures to eliminate or control the risks identified for each of the above hazards in line with organisational procedures.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the Polytechnic and/or via the Polytechnic e-learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is not compulsory for any specific course. Depending on the course you study, this unit may be taken as an elective.

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