Upon successful completion of this unit, you will:
- determining current work health and safety (WHS) legal requirements for the workplace
- providing advice to parties and individuals about current WHS legal requirements for the workplace, including underpinning principles, legal duties, rights and obligations and WHS regulator functions and powers
- assessing workplace compliance with WHS legislative requirements
- determining the training needs of individuals and parties in relation to WHS requirements
- developing and implementing workplace changes in order to achieve WHS legal compliance
Demonstrate knowledge of:
- duties, rights and obligations of individuals and parties as specified in relevant WHS legislation, and specify the location of relevant information on WHS legislation
- functions and powers of the relevant WHS regulator and how they are exercised
- internal and external sources of WHS information, and how to access them
- objectives and principles underpinning WHS legislation
- method/s used for:
- assessing WHS compliance
- training needs in relation to WHS compliance
- changes to achieve WHS compliance
