WHS Hazard Identification & Risk
Assessment

 

Overview:

Recruitment on-hire agencies have a duty of care to on-hire workers under Work Health & Safety Law.

As a recruiter you do not always have direct control or management of the workplaces involved, however your duty remains as an employer to your on-hire workers. This means that you have a legal duty to take action to establish that the workplace and its operations are safe before workers are placed with a client. You also need to continue monitoring workers’ health and safety throughout the term of their placement.

Regulator guidance for the labour hire industry explains that a key step to ensuring safe work placements is gathering information and visiting the client work-site to understand the client’s operations and hazards, and their approach to managing safety in the workplace.

Guidance and recent labour hire case law highlights that it is essential that the on-hire firm engages competent persons to make an informed WHS assessment of the work-site. This will require knowledge and understanding of the client’s operations, workplace hazards and WHS management systems.

It is common in the on-hire industry for the completion of client site assessments to be delegated to recruitment consultants. In some cases however, the recruitment consultants are not given the knowledge to adequately identify and assess hazards at the client workplace, nor are they confident to recommend risk controls to the client.

Participants will return to their workplace with fresh insight into on-hire work health and safety, armed with goals to work towards and achieve a healthy and safe on-hire business.

This session will be delivered on Wednesday 22nd May from 1pm - 5pm AEST (Melbourne time).

Learning Objectives:
Participants of this workshop will learn to: 

• Identify work health and safety hazards
• Assess risks to health and safety
• Identify and recommend risk control measures
• Promote and support worker consultation

Disclaimer:

This training program is intended as a guide only and is not intended to be a substitute for legal advice.

Specific advice should always be sought before relying on any aspect of the content of the learning material presented and or associated learning material shared. RCSA will not be liable for any damages, losses or causes of action of any nature arising from the use of learning resources or any information contained herein.

Who Should Attend:

RCSA has a three pillar learning model. This model allows individuals to identify the best L&D content for them based on their level of experience in the recruitment & staffing industry. This workshop has been identified as 'Extend'. For more information about our pillars, see the Learning & Development page of our website. 

 

Meet the facilitator: Amy Towers

Amy is a committed, curious and tenacious risk wrangler and work health and safety consultant. An advisor with more than 15 years’ experience working with clients to analyse, guide and improve their workplace compliance and productivity while reducing their litigation risk Amy is an incredible asset to the businesses she partners with.

Amy holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (OHS) from RMIT (2002) as well as post-graduate studies in Business Management (2008) and Communication & Organisation from the University of Queensland (2019). She has also completed Lead Auditor Training and attended the Thought Leaders Business School.

Delivery:

• Interactive and engaging video workshop using Zoom
• References to recent case studies
• In-session discussions and open Q&A
• All start and end times listed are displayed in Melbourne | Australian Eastern Standard/Daylight Time unless stated otherwise
• Workshop joining links will be sent to registrants no later than 48 hour prior to live delivery from [email protected] 
• RCSA workshops are not recorded and participants are required to attend using their own device with a working webcam and microphone. Any no-show attendees will be marked absent and will be considered as a non-refundable transaction

Pricing:

• Member registration to attend the workshop is $360.00 AUD plus GST per participant
• A group registration rate is available for a minimum of 5 registrations for members from the same organisation. To qualify for this rate, each of the 5 attendees must be registered at the time of booking at the group rate of $324.00 AUD plus GST per participant (minimum total $1,620.00 AUD plus GST)
• If you are based in New Zealand and would like to attend this workshop, please contact [email protected] for assistance

 

Booking Terms & Conditions:

• Cancellations and/or refunds for this event is governed by the RCSA Booking Terms & Conditions
• Note: There is a minimum number of enrolments required for this workshop to run. This page will be updated to indicate the workshop has been confirmed. If your attendance to this workshop requires special arrangements in order to attend, we recommend confirming the workshop is running as planned by contacting [email protected]

For More Information:

RCSA Learning & Development
Members within Australia call 1300 727 504
Members within New Zealand call toll free + 0800 441 904
E: [email protected]