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HSR Course - Health and Safety Representative Queensland - 5 Day Initial
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HSR Course - Health and Safety Representative Queensland - 5 Day Initial
HSR Training - Health and Safety Representative Training - Workplace Health and Safety Queensland
The 5-day Health and Safety Representative (HSR) course provides participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to fulfil their role as a HSR in Queensland.
Newly appointed HSR’s (from 29 July 2024 onwards) must complete their training within 28 days of their election (the previous period was 3 months).
If a worker chooses not to undertake the training within the time period, they will no longer be eligible to fulfil the role of HSR and will need to be replaced.
WorkSafe Connect has been delivering workplace health and safety training for over 15 years and is one of Queensland’s leading suppliers of HSR training courses. We offer this program in Townsville, Brisbane and Onsite and focus on delivering engaging and practical training.
Available Dates
Townsville Training
Bayswater Road, Garbutt, Townsville, QLD 4814
8:30am 16th June to 4:30pm 20th June 2025
8:30am 14th July to 4:30pm 18th July 2025
8:30am 11th August to 4:30pm 15th August 2025
8:30am 8th September to 4:30pm 12th September 2025
8:30am 20th October to 4:30pm 24th October 2025
Brisbane Training
Construction Training Centre, 460-492 Beaudesert Road, Salisbury, Brisbane, QLD 4107
8:30am 2nd June to 4:30pm 6th June 2025
8:30am 16th June to 4:30pm 20th June 2025
8:30am 14th July to 4:30pm 18th July 2025
8:30am 18th August to 4:30pm 22nd August 2025
8:30am 15th September to 4:30pm 19th September 2025
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CSQ Funding Options
You may be eligible to receive Construction Skills Queensland funding for this course if you are a worker or an apprentice / trainee in the building and construction industry.
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Course Details
The role of the Health and Safety Representative (HSR) is primarily to liaise with other staff to identify health and safety issues and convey these to management. HSRs are elected by fellow staff to represent the views of the staff group.
Health and Safety Representative training is delivered over 5 days and course topics include:
- Overview of the WHS legislative framework
- Duties of various parties
- Key WHS terminology
- The role of WHSQ and penalties for non‐compliance
- Requirements and mechanisms for consultation in the workplace on work health and safety issues
- The role, entitlements and protections available for HSRs and Health and Safety Committees (HSCs)
- Resolving workplace health and safety issues through negotiation and conflict resolution
- Identifying hazards and ways in which they can be eliminated or minimised
- Incident notification and investigation
- Issuing Provisional Improvement Notices (PINs) and directing unsafe work to cease.
Training will be conducted by one of our experienced trainer assessors who have WHS industry currency, strong knowledge of relevant legislation, regulations and industry standards.
All assessments in this course are open book and students will have access to all learning materials such as legislation, codes of practice and student notes.
WorkSafe Connect is able to offer this course:
- Face to Face – Public Courses (Brisbane and Townsville)
- Face to Face – Onsite (at your site / workplace)
- Virtual – Video – Led Instructor Based Training (live)
- Staggered delivery options – to better suit your work schedule requirements (e.g. 3 days one week and 2 days the next week)
If you would like to discuss delivery options in more detail, then please get in contact with us.
Successful participants will receive a Workplace Health and Safety Queensland Health and Safety Representative Training Certificate. This certificate is issued by WorkSafe Connect (RTO 31385) in our capacity as an approved provider of this course on behalf of the Queensland Government (Workplace Health and Safety Queensland).
WorkSafe Connect offers both the full HSR course which requires 5 days of training as well as a HSR refresher course which takes 1 day of training.
If you have any questions regarding which Health and Safety Representative course is most suitable for you then please get in touch with a member of the WorkSafe Connect team today.
You may be eligible to receive CSQ funding for this course if you work in the building & construction industry in Queensland.
If eligible, you will receive funding of $589.00, which means an out of pocket expense of $306.00.
For further details, please click here or get in touch with us.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes.
Newly appointed HSR’s (from 29 July 2024 onwards) must complete their training within 28 days of their election (the previous period was 3 months).
If a worker chooses not to undertake the training within the time period, they will no longer be eligible to fulfill the role of HSR and will need to be replaced.
The primary role of a health and safety representative (HSR) is to represent the health and safety interests of a work group and to raise any issues with their employer.
There can be as many HSRs and deputy HSRs as needed, after consultation, negotiation and agreement between workers and the employer, or persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU).
12 months.
From 29 July 2024 onwards, existing HSRs must now complete HSR refresher training every 12 months after the initial training (the previous period was every 3 years).
We have sought clarification from WHSQ regarding the new 12-month refresher requirement – if you are a current HSR and it has been more than 12 months since your last HSR course (initial or refresher), you should complete the 1-day refresher program as soon as practicable.
Yes.
Existing HSRs must now complete HSR refresher training every 12 months after the initial training (the previous period was every 3 years).
We have sought clarification from WHSQ regarding the new 12-month refresher requirement – if you are a current HSR and it has been more than 12 months since your last HSR course (initial or refresher), you should complete the 1-day refresher program as soon as practicable.
The role of a HSR is generally limited to their own work group unless:
- there is a serious risk to health or safety (created by an immediate hazard) affecting workers from another work group
- a worker in another work group asks for the HSR's assistance, and the HSR for that other work group is found to be unavailable.
An elected HSR is entitled to perform the following tasks for the work group:
- undertake workplace inspections
- review the circumstances of workplace incidents
- accompany a WHSQ inspector during an inspection
- represent the work group in health and safety matters
- attend an interview about health and safety matters with a worker from the work group (with the consent of the worker)
- request that a health and safety committee be established
- participate in a health and safety committee
- monitor compliance measures
- investigate work health and safety complaints from work group members
- inquire into any risk to the health and safety of workers in the work group
- issue provisional improvement notices and direct a worker to cease unsafe work (where the HSR has completed the approved training).
A HSR is not personally liable for anything done, or not done, in good faith while carrying out their role. However any person adversely affected by a decision or action of a HSR can apply to the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission to have them disqualified.
