Health and Safety Champion

Course Overview

The Health and Safety Champion micro-credential is intended to provide individuals with the skills and knowledge to understand their fundamental health and safety responsibilities and obligations, using targeted examples relevant to their industry.

Learners will examine the personal consequences of unsafe actions to better improve health and safety at work. This micro-credential will benefit all workers, contractors, supervisors, health and safety representatives and managers.

Successful completion of the micro-credential will allow learners to become champions of health and safety best practice at their workplace.

Learning Outcomes

• Be a champion of Health and Safety
• Understand risks and hazards
• Work safely
• Understand consequences of actions
• Champion positive health and safety culture
• Understand worker responsibilities and obligations
• Understand principles of basic risk management.

Content and Delivery

The course content is covered over two modules and key content includes the following:

• Foundation Knowledge
• Best practice health and safety principles
• Importance of working safely
• Championing health and safety culture
• Effective health and safety communication strategies
• Consequences of unsafe actions
• Removing yourself from unsafe situations
• Understanding the power of health and safety champions.