To provide the participant with a common understanding of WHS principles and practices used on Construction and Civil sites in Australia.
Course Objective:
To provide the participant with a common understanding of WHS principles and practices used on Construction and Civil sites in Australia.
Unit Of Competency:
CPCWHS1001 – Prepare to Work Safely in the Construction Industry
Course Content:
Identify health and safety legislative requirements of construction work
Identify construction hazards and risk control measures
Identify health and safety communication and reporting processes
Identify incident and emergency response procedures
Assessment:
Written/Theory Assessment
Practical Demonstration of Correctly Fitting of PPE
Identify and Orally Explain/Report in English
Course Prerequisites:
Numeracy skills to locate and recognise numbers commonly used in safety signs
Oral communication skills to ask questions to clarify instructions, listen to instructions to identify key safety information and tell another person about a construction problem or hazard
Reading skills to follow simple pictorial safety instructions and follow simple safety instructions that are written in English
Problem solving skills to select risk control measures
Written skills to complete a basic form
Please Note:
No interpreters will be allowed at this stage for this course
Photographic identification is required to attend this course
All students will need a Unique Student Identifier (USI) to receive their certificates and or cards.
The Construction Industry Training Centre Incorporated (CITC) was established in 1994 as a not-for-profit Registered Training Organisation (RTO Code 0647) to fill an educational training gap that then existed by providing upskilling of the traditional trades and non-trades employees in industry and those wishing to be engaged in industry.
Our vision is to contribute to the positive cultural change in society through appropriate training of workers. Our intent is to maintain a high quality training provision and cost effectiveness that is tailored to meet clients’ specific needs and regulatory requirements.
We provide high quality training for many industries including: Construction, Mining, Entertainment, Automotive, Manufacturing, Maritime, Transport, Wine and the Defence Forces throughout South Australia.
With 10 full-time staff and over 25 trainers available, we specialise in areas as diverse as High Risk Work Licensing, Asbestos, Confined Space, Work Health and Safety (White Card to Certificate IV in WH&S), Plant Operation, Working at Heights, Workzone Traffic Management, 4WD training and many more. To view all Nationally Recognised Courses offered by the CITC.
Training is delivered on clients’ sites or at our purpose built training centre in Regency Park which has 20 training rooms, a serviced canteen and with 7,500m2 under the main roof is considered one of the best training centres for our scope in Australia.
Our clients and participants come from a broad cross section of the community, whether they be corporate, sole traders, wage and salary earners, self-employed, unemployed and school leavers.
The CITC has enjoyed continual growth over the past years mainly due to the provision of quality job relevant training outcomes.
We are the major provider to the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) for the up skilling of the industry workforce.
From your first contact with the CITC via telephone, the website or over the counter at our Regency Park Office right through to your final assessment, we will always endeavour to offer the assistance that you deserve.
This unit applies to those working in site-based roles. Licensing, legislative, regulatory and certification requirements that apply to this unit can vary between states, territories, and industry sectors, and must be sourced from state jurisdictions prior to applying this unit.
Certificate IV Work Health & Safety course is offered by Safe Workplace Solutions.
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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.
This course is a basic one day confined space entry course designed for personnel whom are not required to act as a standby person, issue confined space permits, perform a confined space rescue or undertake gas testing.
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