White Card (Construction Induction)

This Course Will Teach You Essential Theory And Practical Skills, Including:

• Basic legal requirements and obligations of construction workers

• Proper identification and reporting of hazards

• Safe work practices on the construction site

• Basic first aid

• Emergency procedures

• Proper use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

White Card Construction Induction Training

People Who Need A White Card

• Owner Builders whose premises become a workplace.

• People who carry out construction work, including site managers and supervisors, surveyors, labourers and trades persons.

• All persons who access operational construction zones unaccompanied or not directly supervised by an inducted person.

• All persons whose employment causes them to routinely enter operational construction zones.

Construction induction training (white card) is a mandatory legal requirement for all persons involved in the construction industry.

White Card Course Structure and Guide

CPCWHS1001 Course Structure – This course will prepare you  to work safely in the construction industry by teaching you the mandatory work health and safety training required prior to doing construction work.

As such, this course is full of essential information to ensure you can work safely and productively and will assess you on your capacity to demonstrate personal awareness and knowledge of health and safety legislative requirements.

COVE Training is approved by WorkSafe Victoria and accredited by Australian Skills and Quality Authority (ASQA) to deliver this training course. Our Construction Induction course covers all the basic operational and safety procedures you need to work on Construction worksites.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be provided with a statement of attainment that is valid for 60 days. WorkSafe Victoria will issue your Construction Induction card (White Card) within 60 days of completing this course.

Course Requirements

• Students must fulfil the course’s eligibility requirements and provide valid identification documents to the WorkSafe Victoria standards, such as a current Australian drivers licence. Check WorkSafe VIC list of acceptable forms of I.D.

• Must attend in person and should arrive 15 minutes prior to the scheduled start of the course.

• As per WorkSafe Victoria requirements, the basic understanding, reading and writing of English is required.

• There are no formal prerequisites.

• Students must have sufficient language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) skills to do simple calculations, read, write and understand English, and provide verbal responses to questions in English to undertake training and assessment in any of the courses offered by the Centre of Vocational Education Pty Ltd.

• Please click here to read our re-schedule policy in reference to LLN concerns identified at the point of enrolment.

• Applicants who are in Australia on a student Visa are permitted to undertake this course under the amendment to the ESOS Act.

White Card Assessment Process

This course incorporates a variety of assessment tasks throughout and may include:

• Observation

• Questioning

Pathways Forward

• Certificate III Civil Construction Plant Operations

• Certificate III Landscape Operations

• Rural Operations Certificate III

• Entry level working in construction

• 3 Course Combo