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COURSE OVERVIEW This qualificaon is suitable for people working in a Work Health and Safety (WHS) role who provide leadership and guidance to others and have some limited responsibility for the output of others. The qualificaon reflects the role of workers who apply a broad knowledge base and well developed skills in a wide variety of contexts and may include coordinators, advisors and facilitators. The course covers important topic areas including compliance and legislaon, contribung to WHS consultaon, hazard idenficaon, risk control, risk assessment, incident response, WHS management systems and connuous improvement concepts. The course is ideal if you wish to obtain the skills for a designated WHS posion or you are already working in a safety role and would like to build on your skills and formalise them as a naonally recognised qualificaon. COURSE ENTRY REQUIREMENTS There are no formal entry requirements or prefferd pathways into this qualificaon. Addionaly there are no licensing or cerficaon requirements from State or Federal licensing authories. Prospecve learners who are employed and working in a WHS role or those who have previously studied WHS units, including the Working Safely in Construcon (Whitecard), will be well suited to this program. Students will need to pass a Language, Literacy and Numeracy test, be able to conduct research online and must have access to the internet at home or be able to access the internet away from class. Star Training Academy RTO#: 91349 27A South Street, Granville NSW 2142 & Suite 4, 259 Northumberland Street, Liverpool NSW 2170 | Phone 02 9897 5622 or 02 9601 7345 | [email protected] | www.startraining.edu.au DURATION & STRUCTURE The course structure allows you up to 10 months to complete the program during which me you will study using a combinaon of face to face in a classroom, combined with homework (distance) away from class. You will complete 600 hours of study, including 5 days a week for 4 weeks in the classroom environment. Away from class you will work in your own me conducng research and compleng acvies and assessment. All learning and assessment materials required to work away from class are provided online through our student portal linked to our website. In addion you will receive materials in hard copy to work on in the classroom. Assessments are a combinaon of wrien work, oral quesoning, group based observaonal acvies and role play. POTENTIAL CAREERS Potenal job roles on compleon of this program inlcude: ο WHS Officer ο Site Safety Supervisor ο Team Leader ο Foreman ο WHS Trainer and Assessor BSB41415 Cerficate IV in Work Health and Safety *Smart and Skilled Funding Available
