The Bligh Government is offering more of its advanced safety
workshops for Queensland workplaces, due to increased demand from
businesses across Queensland.
Minister for Industrial Relations Cameron Dick said basic safety
workshops for businesses have been very popular over the last two
years and those who have completed them have expressed a keen
interest in learning more advanced safety tools and skills.
'We're very pleased to have received such positive feedback from
businesses, wanting to play their part in making Queensland
workplaces the healthiest and safest in the nation,' Mr Dick
said.
is why Workplace Health and Safety Queensland is now offering
Managing and Safety - Tools and techniques workshops for people who
have completed the basic Managing for Safety - Getting started
workshops.
'The workshops will provide businesses with more detailed advice on
how to promote and support workplace health and safety among their
employees.
'Businesses have told us they are keen to receive more of this
information and the chance to develop more skills, and this
government is very pleased to oblige with the new Tools and
techniques course starting state-wide from September.'
The advanced workshops are to help small and medium sized
workplaces.
The Managing for Safety - Tools and techniques course will cover
topics such as:
- How to assess existing safety management processes and identify
opportunities for improvement.
- What the roles and responsibilities of all individuals at the
workplace are.
- How to communicate and consult on health and safety issues
effectively.
- How to evaluate safe work procedures and prepare more useful
versions.
- How to identify the training needs of a workplace and what to
do about it .
- The value of good quality supervision.
- How to investigate the cause of an incident and analyse injury
trends.
- What to do when someone gets injured - how to rehabilitate them
and return them to work quickly and safely.
- How to integrate health and safety management into the holistic
management of the business.
As with the Managing for Safety - Getting started workshops,
participant numbers will be kept as low as possible to give people
more individual time with the small business advisors, who run the
workshops.
Mr Dick said workplaces that engage sub-contractors can assist
their sub-contractors to more effectively manage health and safety
issues.
'One simple way is to promote the workshop as a way to fulfil their
obligations, with the likely added bonus of fewer safety incidents
in the workplace,' he said.
The dates and locations of the Managing for Safety - Tools and
techniques workshops will be available on the Workplace Health and Safety Queensland website
under training section.
The five-hour sessions, including morning tea and lunch, will be
free until at least the end of December 2009.
For more information, interested businesses can contact 1300 369
915.
