Work health and safety (WHS) in the school context includes the safety of the whole school community, particularly staff and students. The duty of care applies to all school activities wherever they occur, and can extend outside the direct remit of the school in relation to students.
While WHS legislation is harmonised in most states/territories, there are a range of requirements specific to each jurisdiction. This training covers a board’s overarching duty to care for people’s safety at and associated with school.
This course will help boards in this important task.
Course structure
The course is designed to be completed as a module that is part of the suite of governance training courses. However, boards can access individual topic modules as needed.
These short courses can be undertaken by individual board members, or be completed as a board together. The modules are kept short so boards can fit the training into their busy board calendars.
The training builds on the materials covered in the Board Induction Course, and this is a useful pre-requisite to the governance modules.
Outcomes
As a result of participating in this course, participants will understand:
- The scope of WHS responsibilities
- How to demonstrate the board’s duty of care
- What is included in a WHS management system
- How a board gives oversight to the system
- The nature of WHS risk management
- What ‘reasonably practical’ means and how to make decisions about safety
- Considerations for student safety
- Psychosocial hazards and how they are managed
- WHS incident management including workers compensation responsibilities.
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