Worksafereps Course Outlines
Stage One (PDF doc 79kb) Stage Two (PDF doc 24kb) Stage Three (PDF doc 29kb)
Stage One - Course Summary
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Summary of course content
Role of the health and safety representative
• Participants discuss the number and impact of workplace injuries and illnesses.
• The functions of health and safety representatives are explored.
• Participants discuss how to involve other workers, and how to find and record information.
Health and Safety in Employment Amendment Act 2002
Health and Safety representatives complete exercises to help them explore:
• the purpose of the Act
• the duties of employers, employees, suppliers and others
• employee participation
• the right to refuse work likely to cause serious harm
• the role of OSH and other government agencies
• offences, penalties and Crown liability.
Some groups may also look at case studies of recent prosecutions.
Hazard management
Key definitions and an overview of the hazard management process are explained.
Participants engage in practical exercises to:
• identify hazards
• assess hazards
• manage hazards (using eliminate, isolate, minimise).
Hazard notices
Participants find out:
• what a hazard notice is
• who can issue it
• when it is appropriate to use it
• its status as “prior warning”.
A role-play focuses participants on:
• the system and communication breakdown which should occur before a hazard notice is issued
• being solution orientated.
Training and supervision
• The role of health and safety representatives in training and induction.
• Protective clothing and equipment and the Act
Preparing for emergencies
• A brief session that outlines how to prepare for emergencies
Injury and incident reporting and investigation
Participants consider how they can:
• encourage incident and injury reporting in their workplace
• contribute to their workplace investigation process
Rehabilitation
• Participants gain an overview of rehabilitation and ACC processes, and explore through role-play how they can support an injured worker to return safely to work.
Workplace planning
• Health and safety representatives apply their learning, by planning health and safety activities for their workplace.
Stage Two - Course Summary
The overall aim of the stage two course is to provide participants with
Specific learning objectives
Specifically, when participants return to work after the course, they will be able to do the following:
• Explain why and when to investigate incidents and injuries.• Describe the steps of an incident and injury investigation.
• Use specific tools and techniques to collect information in an investigation.
• Use specific tools to analyse the information obtained in an investigation.
• Explain the importance of identifying and managing hazards, and of updating a hazard register on completion of an incident investigation.
• Recommend effective ways to control and monitor hazards.
• Describe the role of the health and safety representative. The course content is all designed to meet the specific objectives outlined above. The topics covered are: • Body mapping. There are also a number of resources, tools and techniques provided in the appendices of the course workbook. • be participant-centred • draw out information from participants, rather then just give them information • be interactive • acknowledge that people learn in different ways • have an easily understood level of language • be flexible. Use of case studies The case studies are all based on actual incidents, and follow a structured process. Participants are first introduced to a topic, such as collecting information, or analysing why an incident happened etc. They are then shown how that topic applies to one specific case (on solvent neurotoxicity). Then they have the opportunity to apply the information to a case study of their choice. This process is repeated with each topic. Participants are encouraged to select a case study which most closely reflects the sorts of incidents that could occur in their industry. The following case studies are available: • Organic solvents in a confined space • OOS in an office environment • Amputation in wood manufacturing • Asphyxiation in a confined space • Hearing loss in a noisy tannery • Serious hand injury in fish-processing • Exposure to chemicals in the health sector. • conduct an incident or injury investigation • recommend solutions to prevent similar incidents happening again • know what is needed to meet the requirements under the HSE Act.
• The role of the health and safety representative.
• Why and when to investigate.
• Overview: how to investigate incidents.
• What happened?
• Why did it happen?
• What are we going to do about it?
• How are we going to keep it safe?
• Reporting back.
The course has been designed to:
Case studies
Industry-specific case studies are one of the key ways of making the course highly interactive. As already observed on the two pilot courses, the case studies fully engage participants and ensure they obtain the skills and knowledge set out in the learning objectives.
Health and safety representatives who attend this course will come back to work with the skills and knowledge to:
Stage Three Health and Safety Rep Training - Course Summary
Cost of workplace injuries and illness to an injured worker and to the
3. Workplace productivity How good health and safety links with productive workplaces
4. Measure what matters
Use injury data to identify patterns of injury, hazards and contributing factors (case study)
5. Improvements and recommendations
Prepare an improvement plan with recommendations, costs and benefits (case study)
6. Presenting recommendations Present recommendations and gain agreement on next steps (case study)
7. Support for injured workers Understand ACC cover and treatment and social rehabilitation entitlements
8. Vocational rehabilitation The role of the Health and Safety Representative in rehabilitation
9. Review and Action plan
Decide how you will apply what you have learned back at work
