General Courses

*Please note any course fees are to be paid by School/Branch.

Please note: All attendance are required to be booked, courses without bookings will be cancelled without notice.

General Courses

Contractor Management

Course aim: To provide participants with a basic knowledge of Contractor Management processes and how to use the templates provided.

Course content:

• What is a contractor
• Safety responsibilities
• Stages of contractor management (including induction and job safety analysis)
• Potential penalties

This course will also be conducted on demand, please contact David Burford to register your interest.

Suitable for: Staff who are engaging contractors.

Duration: 1 hour

Other recommended courses:
Job Safety Analysis
RMSS Training Risk assessment
RMSS Training Incidents and Inspections
Hazard Management

Due Diligence for WHS Officers

Course aim: WHS training for individuals who may be impacted by the changed definition of ‘officer’ under the new South Australian workplace health and safety (WHS) legislation.

Course content:
The relevant changes under the new WHS legislation, with a specific focus on the broadened scope of the definition of ‘officer’ .

• The nature of the due diligence obligation
• The specific components of due diligence under the legislation
• The consequences of any breach
• The mechanisms for compliance embedded in the University’s safety management system
• The requirements for reporting notifiable and/or adverse events.

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Suitable for: Individuals who may be impacted by the changed definition of ‘officer’ under the new South Australian workplace health and safety (WHS) legislation.

It is recommended that this course be attended by:
Heads of School and Directors of Branches (including deputy Heads and Directors who are likely to act from time to time as Head or Director) Faculty/Division Managers and School/Branch Managers (including deputies who are likely to act from time to time as Manager) Directors of Institutes and Institute Managers (including deputies who are likely to act from time to time).

Duration: 90 minutes

Ergonomics

Course aim: To provide participants with basic knowledge of ergonomics hazards.

Course content:

• What is ergonomics?
• The results of poor ergonomics
• How to prevent poor workplace ergonomics
• Working with computers
• Identifying, assessing and controlling risks

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Suitable for: Managers, HSOs, and all staff involved in office based work.

Duration: 1 hour

This course will also be conducted on demand, please contact Louise Dunn to register your interest.

Other recommended courses:
Hazard Management
RMSS Training Risk assessment
Manual Handling

Events Management - (Safety Aspects)

Events Management, Health Safety & Wellbeing Team

Course aim: To provide participants with a basic knowledge of Events Management processes and how to use the templates provided.

Course content:

• OHSW Legislative Framework
• Risk Management
• The Events Management process: booking the event, hazard identification, building a safety management plan, induction, evaluation of the event (debrief), documentation and records.

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Suitable for: Staff involved in organising events.

Duration: 1 hour

Other Recommended course:
Hazard Management

 
Hazard Management for Low Risk Areas

Course aim: To provide participants with a basic understanding of the workplace hazard management process with a focus on low risk  hazard identification and a simple risk assessment process.

Course content:

• Overarching Legal Requirements
• Corporate Responsibilities
• What is Hazard Management
• Hazard Identification
• Risk Assessment
• Control

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Suitable for: All staff who are working in a low risk area

Duration: 30 minutes

Other recommended courses:

HSW for Academics/Managers/Supervisors
or
Work Health and Safety for Staff & Students
and

RMSS Training Risk assessment

Hazard Management for High Risk Areas

Course aim: To provide participants with a basic understanding of the workplace hazard management process with a focus on hazard identification and risk assessment process in high risk areas.

Course content:

• Overarching Legal Requirements
• Corporate Responsibilities
• What is Hazard Management
• Hazard Identification
• Risk Assessment
• Control

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Suitable for: All staff who are working in a high risk area

Duration: 30 minutes

Other recommended courses:
HSW for Academics/Managers/Supervisors

or

Work Health and Safety for Staff & Students

and
RMSS Training Risk assessment

Hazard Management for Postgraduate Research Students

Course aim:  To provide participants with basic requirements for undertaking risk assessments and assistance with completing the safety management plan in core structured program.

Course content:

• Hazard Management
• Practical session on safety management plans for core structured program and doing risk assessments

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Suitable for: PhD students who are involved in a core structure program.

Duration: 1 hour

HSR Training

Booking contacts:
BusinessSA
Telephone: 8300 0103

SA Unions
Telephone: 82792222 or 1300 364 536

Adelaide Training and Employment Centre
Telephone: 8444 1608

Suitable for: Health & Safety Representatives

Other recommended courses:
RMSS Training Risk Assessment
RMSS Training Incidents & Inspections
HSR Training  - a University Context

HSW Committee Training

Course aim: To provide participants with a basic understanding of HSW committees.

Course content:

• Inform you of Legislative requirements for committees
• Outline the functions of a Health and Safety Committee
• To inform you of the University’s Health and Safety Committee structure including outlining composition, roles and responsibilities
• Committee documentation (including UHSC reports) and time frames

 
Suitable for: HSW committee members

Duration: 1 hour

On Demand: Please contact louise.dunn@adelaide.edu.au

Other recommended courses:
RMSS Training Risk assessment
RMSS Training Incidents and Inspections
Hazard Management

HSW for Academics/Managers/Supervisors

Course aim:To introduce Academic staff, Managers and Supervisors to Health, Safety and Wellbeing requirements

Course Content:

• Legislative framework
• Responsibilities
• HSW Management System
• Injury management & Wellbeing

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Suitable for: Recommended for all academics, managers and
supervisors

Duration: 1 hour

Other recommended courses:
Hazard Management

HSW for Health and Safety Officers

Course aim: To guide new (and reminding existing), Health and Safety Officers about the system of Health, Safety and Wellbeing in the University.

Course Content:

• Legislative framework
• Responsibilities
• Enforcement
• OHS Management System
• WorkCover and Injury Management
• Reporting

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Suitable for: Health and Safety Officers

Duration: 3 hours tutorial.

Other recommended courses:
RMSS Training Risk assessment
RMSS Training Incidents and Inspections

Injury Management for Managers and Supervisors

Course Aim: To provide Managers and Supervisors information on University roles and responsibilities.

Course Content:
Information on University roles and responsibilities including:

• The injured worker
• The manager/supervisor
• The HSW Specialist (Injury Management and Wellbeing)
• The Claims Manager
• External Rehabilitation consultant

The session will cover how managers can influence the long term outcome of a claim, the barriers to achieving a successful return to work and the requirements of the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1986.

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Suitable for: Managers and Supervisors

Duration: 2 hours

Job Safety Analysis

Construction Industry Training Centre

Suitable for: Staff who are engaging large/complex contracts.

Other recommended courses:
Contractor Management

Manual Handling

Course aim: To provide participants with basic knowledge in the application of manual handling principles and techniques in the workplace.

Course content:

• What is Manual Handling
• Legislative requirements
• How a Musculoskeletal Injury can occur
• Principles of Risk Identification, Assessment and Control
• Application of Risk Management Principles (Exercise)
• Things that you can do to prevent an injury

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This course will also be conducted on demand, please contact David Burford to register your interest.

Suitable for: Managers, HSOs, and all staff involved in office based work.

Duration: 1 hour

Other recommended courses:
Hazard Management
RMSS Training Risk assessment

RMSS Training on Risk Assessment

Course aim: To provide assistance to staff and post graduate students who are required to complete risk assessments in RMSS.

Course Content:

• Recording a risk assessment using RMSS
• Review of hazard management principles
• Business processes around risk assessments
• Reports

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Suitable for: Staff and postgraduate students who are required to undertake risk assessments using the RMSS software system.

Duration: 1 hour

Other recommended courses:
All staff
Hazard Management

PhD students
Hazard Management for Postgraduate Research Students.

RMSS Training on Incidents and Inspections

Course aim: To provide assistance to staff, postgraduate students who are required to complete incidents and inspections in RMSS.

Course Content:

• Recording of incidents using RMSS
• Business processess around incidents
• Inspection business process
• Inspection elements
• Recording inspections in RMSS
• Reports

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Suitable for: Staff who are required to enter incidents or undertaking inspections and are required to use the RMSS software system.

Duration: 2 hours

Other recommended courses:
Hazard Management

RMSS for Executives

Course aim: Heads and Managers of School/ Branch and Executives to understand how to use the software to monitor the area under their control.

Course content:

• Introduction to the system
• Your role in the process
• Reporting and trends

Suitable for: Executives, Heads / Managers of School/Branch

Duration: 30 mins

This course is conducted on demand, please contact Jane Knipe to register your interest.

Other recommended courses:
Hazard Management
HSW for Academics/Managers/Supervisors

Safety and Security for Staff

Course aim: To provide staff with a basic understanding of personal safety and strategies to minimise risk.

Course content:

• Unacceptable behaviour and how staff may encounter it in the university environment
• Procedures that are in place should an event occur

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Suitable for: Staff

Duration: 1 hour

Other recommended courses:
Hazard Management

Voice Training - Professional & Continuing Education

Course content:

• Learn to speak clearly and develop flexibility and accuracy, so that sounds and words are clearly expressed
• control your breath through diaphragmatic breathing exercises
• develop resonance and project a fuller, richer sound
• use pace, pause, pitch, emphasis, and volume to enhance the way you speak
• convey appropriate emotions through vocal and facial expression
• care for your voice and warm up your voice
• be fully aware of the sound of your voice and its impact

Suitable for: All staff who conduct lectures, tutorial workshops, work on telephone help desks, or in any other jobs which their voice is critical.

Contact: Professional & Continuing Education

Voice Training for Staff with English as a second/subsequent language

Advanced English Pronunciation Skills - Professional & Continuing Education

Course Content:
This course is the same as the Voice Training but specifically tailored for people with English as a second/subsequent language

Suitable for: For staff who have English as a second/subsequent language and
who conduct lectures, tutorial, workshops, work on telephone help desks, or in any other jobs which their voice it critical.

Contact: Professional & Continuing Education

Work Health and Safety for Staff and Students

Course aim: To introduce staff and higher degree research students to Health, Safety and Wellbeing requirements

Course Content:

• Legislative framework
• Responsibilities
• HSW Management System
• Injury Management & Wellbeing

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Suitable for:
Recommended for all staff and post graduate students

Duration: 1 hour

Workplace Inspections

Course aim: To provide practical assistance in identifying hazards and recording actions in workplace Inspections

Course Content:

• Why inspect?
• What am I looking for?
• What do I do when I find it?

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Suitable for: Staff or students who are required to conduct workplace inspections

Duration: TBA

Other recommended courses:
Hazard Management

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