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Health and Safety Representative

This course assists health and safety representatives (HSRs) to understand and fulfil their role and functions under the Work Health & Safety Act.

Courses are developed by the appropriate State Authority - Workplace Health & Safety Qld or WorkCover NSW. Both of these have produced a full five (5) day course and a one (1) day refresher course. Logisafe is approved by both to deliver this training.WORKCOVER QLD APPROVED HSR TRAINING

 WHO NEEDS TO UNDERGO HEALTH & SAFETY REPRESENTATIVE TRAINING - What the law says

Extracts from Work Health and Safety Act 2011 – Division 3      

Section 50:
A worker who carries out work for a business or undertaking may ask the person conducting the business or undertaking to facilitate the conduct of an election for one or more health and safety representatives to represent workers who carry out work for the business or undertaking.

 

Section 72:

(1)

The person conducting a business or undertaking must, if requested by a health and safety representative for a work group for that business or undertaking, allow the health and safety representative to attend a course of training in work health and safety that is:
     
(a)

 approved by the regulator, and
  (b) a course that the health and safety representative is entitled under the regulations to attend, and
  (c) subject to subsection (5), chosen by the health and safety representative, in consultation with the person conducting the business or undertaking.
(2)

The person conducting the business or undertaking must:
        (a)

as soon as practicable within the period of 3 months after the request is made, allow the health and safety representative time off work to attend the course of training, and
  (b)

pay the course fees and any other reasonable costs associated with the health and safety representative's attendance at the course of training.
(3) 

If:
      

(a)

a health and safety representative represents a work group of the workers of more than one business or undertaking, and
 

(b)

the person conducting any of those businesses or undertakings has complied with this section in relation to the representative,
      

each of the persons conducting those businesses or undertakings is to be taken to have complied with this section in relation to the representative.

(4) 

Any time that a health and safety representative is given off work to attend the course of training must be with the pay that he or she would otherwise be entitled to receive for performing his or her normal duties during that period.

(5)

 If agreement cannot be reached between the person conducting the business or undertaking and the health and safety representative within the time required by subsection (2) as to the matters set out in subsections (1) (c) and (2), either party may ask the regulator to appoint an inspector to decide the matter.

 

 

 

WorkCover NSW Authorised Training Provider No: HSR1498.

Nominated Trainers:

Brenda Grant NT10413
John Grant NT10077

 

This course assists health and safety representatives (HSRs) to understand and fulfil their role and functions under the NSW Work Health & Safety Act 2011. Relevant extracts are shown on the following page.

Section 47 of the NSW WHS Act 2011 requires a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU - the new term that includes employers) to consult with their workers. Having an elected HSR is one way to accomplish this. The role of an HSR is to facilitate the flow of information about health and safety between the PCBU and the workers in their work group.

Training is an entitlement under the WHS Legislation for elected HSRs, and The PCBU must make this training available to any HSR that requests it. Logisafe also recommends this training for any other Health and Safety Committee members.

The full course runs over five (5) days and may be attended at a public course held at a Logisafe venue or conducted in-house for an organisation with sufficient numbers to warrant this. Costs are $850 per person for single bookings. Group rates by negotiation.

If you have previouslt undertaken the full training, a one day refresher course will keep you up-to-daye with any changes that may have occurred since your initial training, and refresh your memory on the full course. Costs are $225 per person for single bookings. Group rates by negotiation.

You will be required to provide evidence of identity which meet the following requirements:

  • Original document(s) issued by a government body or a financial institution including full name, photo (such as a current drivers licence or passport) and signature (such as a current drivers licence or credit card).
    Note: Credit cards and savings account cards from overseas institutions can only be accepted if the institutions have representation in Australia, subject to the card or statement being issued in Australia and in English.
  • Documents must be in the same name unless accompanied by a document from the NSW Registry of births, Deaths and Marriages (or State/Territory equivalent)

 

Initial Training Course WHSQ-HSR-NCB01
Refresher Course WHSQ-HSR-RFS01

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