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Online - HSR Course - Health and Safety Representative Queensland - 5 Day Initial
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Online - HSR Course - Health and Safety Representative Queensland - 5 Day Initial
Online Delivery - 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.
With a focus on delivering flexible training options, WorkSafe Connect delivers an online Health and Safety Representative (HSR) course virtually through live video led training (via Zoom). Regardless of your location, as long as you have access to the technology requirements (set out in Course Delivery below) then you are able to take advantage of this delivery method.
It is mandatory for HSR's in Queensland to undertake the 5-day Workplace Health and Safety Queensland approved training course within three months of their election. 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. Our online HSR training focuses on delivering engaging and practical training - all students are engaging with the trainer and other students throughout the course.
The delivery method is also referred to as "CRTD" (Connected Real Time Delivery).
Available Dates
Online Training
Be guided by our expert trainers conveniently at your workplace or home.
8:30am 5th August to 4:30pm 9th August 2024
8:30am 19th August to 4:30pm 23rd August 2024
8:30am 26th August to 4:30pm 30th August 2024
8:30am 16th September to 4:30pm 20th September 2024
8:30am 14th October to 4:30pm 18th October 2024
Do you prefer Face to Face Training?
WorkSafe Connect offers face to face training throughout Queensland.
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.
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.
Our Health and Safety Representative online training will be conducted virtually through online video-led live training (virtual delivery).
Our experienced trainer assessors, who have or continue to work in safety roles within industry, have strong knowledge of relevant legislation, regulations and industry standards that will support you throughout the training.
Please note this training is conducted live with both practical and theoretical activities during the training experience to ensure that the training is engaging, interesting and relevant.
Please find below a list of the key technology arrangements you will need for HSR training online:
- Computer (desktop or laptop or tablet; it cannot be completed on a mobile phone)
- Webcam
- Headphones (incl. microphone) or computer audio system
- Reliable internet connection
- Ensure your web browser is up-to-date
- Quiet room with limited background noise
WorkSafe Connect offers this course in a range of formats including:
- Face to Face – Public Courses (Brisbane and Townsville)
- Face to Face – Onsite (at your site / workplace)
- Online – 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 and we would be more than happy to discuss your requirements and options in more detail.
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 (WHSQHSRNCB01) 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
All HSRs must undertake the relevant approved training course within three months of their election. 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).
3 years.
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland’s expectation is for elected Health and Safety Representatives to undertake refresher training at the end of the 3-year period. WHSQ reserve the right to require an HSR to sit the full course again if they have failed to refresh their training either prior to the 3-year period or in a reasonable time frame post the 3-year anniversary of their original training.
Yes
Workplace Health and Safety Queensland’s expectation is for elected Health and Safety Representatives to undertake refresher training at the end of the 3-year period. WHSQ reserve the right to require an HSR to sit the full course again if they have failed to refresh their training either prior to the 3-year period or in a reasonable time frame post the 3-year anniversary of their original training.
PLEASE NOTE: persons who DO NOT undertake HSR refresher training WITHIN the three-year period, will be required by Workplace Health and Safety Qld to undertake the 5 day initial course again.
