Maintain Work Health and Safety Processes (AHC Unit)

Tocal College

Type of institution: Registered Training Organisation
Level: Pre-degree
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This unit is part of the Agriculture, Horticulture and Conservation and Land Management Training Package. It describes the skills and knowledge required to facilitate meetings and document actions that relate to the consideration of work health and safety issues in the workplace. It is applicable to nominated work health and safety representatives in a workplace. All work must be carried out to comply with workplace and legislative requirements. It applies to individuals who take responsibility for their own work. They provide and communicate solutions to a range of predictable and unpredictable problems.

Subjects

  • Provide information about WHS
  • Facilitate the participation of workers in WHS observance and decision-making
  • Implement procedures for identifying hazards and assessing and controlling risks
  • Implement workplace procedures for dealing with emergencies and hazardous events
  • Implement and monitor enterprise procedures for providing WHS training
  • Implement and monitor enterprise procedures for maintaining WHS records.

Standard entry requirements

Relevant employment experience

Further information

The terms 'occupational health and safety' (OHS) and 'work health and safety' (WHS) and occupational safety and health (OSH) are equivalent and generally either can be used in the workplace. In jurisdictions where the Model WHS Legislation has not been implemented RTOs are advised to contextualise the unit of competency by referring to the existing State and Territory OHS legislative requirements.

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