By the end
What you'll build
- Identify hazards in your own work area and describe their potential harm
- Apply the hierarchy of controls when evaluating a proposed fix
- Report a near miss or incident through the correct internal route and in useful detail
- Explain your right and duty to stop work you believe to be unsafe
- Describe how worker consultation should influence a risk assessment
- Recognise psychosocial hazards and know the internal routes for raising them
Curriculum
What's inside
6 modules · 35 lessons
- 01
How safety systems work
6 lessons- Hazard, risk and control: getting the words right
- Why a system beats a poster campaign
- Duties that sit with the employer and duties that sit with you
- Leadership and safety culture in practice
- What this course cannot authorise you to do
- + 1 more lesson
- 02
Identifying hazards
6 lessons- Walking your own area and finding what could hurt someone
- Routine, non-routine and emergency situations
- Slips, manual handling and other everyday hazards
- Health hazards that act slowly
- Psychosocial hazards and workload
- + 1 more lesson
- 03
Controlling risk
6 lessons- The hierarchy of controls and why personal protective equipment is last
- Elimination and substitution in real decisions
- Engineering controls you should recognise
- Administrative controls: permits, procedures and briefings
- Why controls decay and how to notice
- + 1 more lesson
- 04
Participation and consultation
6 lessons- Speaking up: stop-work authority and how to use it
- Safety representatives and committees
- Contributing to a risk assessment as the person doing the job
- Contractors, visitors and shared workplaces
- Raising a concern when you fear the reaction
- + 1 more lesson
- 05
Incidents and learning
6 lessons- Writing a near-miss report someone can act on
- Immediate actions versus investigation
- Root cause thinking without blame
- Emergency arrangements: knowing your role and its limits
- Tracking actions to closure
- + 1 more lesson
- 06
Practice and check
5 lessons- Say what you mean: safety words that get confusedmatch pairs
- You spot a loose scaffold board over a walkwaysequence order
- Getting the safety words rightfill blank
- The blocked pedestrian routescenario
- Course quizquiz
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
35 lessons across 6 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.
Practice as you go
Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.
Progress you can see
Your progress is saved lesson by lesson, ready whenever you come back.
Ready when you are.
Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.
