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Workplace Health and Safety

Workplace Health & Safety instructions
Workplace Health and Safety preparation for students
Updates on Workplace Health and Safety - 'Safety Zone'

Before a work placement commences, the principal must arrange that students undertaking work placements are provided with instruction about their rights and responsibilities in relation to workplace health and safety, and ensure the students' understanding of them.

For detailed information on workplace health and safety issues please refer to the following web sites:

Department of Employment and Industrial Relations
Creating Healthier Workplaces

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Workplace Health & Safety instructions

Principals must ensure, as far as practicable, that:

the workplace into which the student is to be placed is without risk to the health and safety of the student;
the work experience provider understands his/her obligation of care responsibilities; and
the student receives adequate information, training and supervision from the work experience provider, in relation to the work being carried out in the particular workplace.

During a work experience placement, the school must monitor the health and safety performance of the work experience provider. This may be achieved through:

workplace visits;
specific inquiries addressed to the work experience provider; and
debriefing students.

Where it is found that students are being required to undertake work that is a risk to their health and safety, action must be taken to minimise the risk to the student. Action may include withdrawing the student and consulting with the Workplace Health and Safety Program, Department of Industrial Relations.

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Workplace Health and Safety preparation for students

Programs that schools can use to prepare students in Workplace Health and Safety include:

Workplace health and safety inductions for construction sites
For the purposes of workplace health and safety a student on work experience is thought of as a worker and the work experience provider as an employer.

Thus, if a work placement is being arranged for students on a construction site, students must have a general induction as required under Queensland's workplace health and safety legislation before that student can do his or her placement. As an RTO the school can deliver this course to the relevant students.
30215QLD - Course in General Safety Induction (Construction Industry) is mandatory for employers, self-employed persons and workers doing construction-type work. Delivery must be by a registered training organisation and
- an employer needs to see evidence that a worker has had a general induction before work starts, and
- a worker must hold general induction evidence before work on a site commences and must show this to the employer.
Safety Sense
An educational program for secondary school students
Interactive Cafe
Test your health and safety skills in the Hospitality Industry
Video Lending Library
Workplace Health and Safety Video Lending Library Catalogue

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