UEENEEE101A - Apply Occupational Health and Safety regulations, codes and practices in the workplace
Overview
This unit specifies the mandatory requirements of occupational health and safety and how they apply to the various electrotechnology work functions. It encompasses responsibilities for health and safety, risk management processes at all operative levels and adherence to safety practices as part of the normal way of doing work.
Assessment
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 and knowledge:
- the basic legal requirements covering occupational health and safety in the workplace;
- the work environment;
- manual handling;
- chemicals in the workplace;
- working at heights;
- confined spaces;
- physical and psychological hazards;
- working safely with electricity, and;
- life support - CPR in the workplace.
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 studied as part of the following course(s):