About this Course
Course Description:
Health and Safety Representatives (HSRs) play a crucial role in ensuring workplace safety, acting as the voice of workers. They are responsible for gathering and sharing safety information and resolving workplace safety issues and breaches.
HSRs are elected by their workgroup members and serve a three-year term.
Once elected, HSRs should undertake our approved 5 day initial HSR training course and a 1 day refresher course every year after. An employer is obligated to allow their HSR time to complete this course.
In QLD, it is mandatory that initial training be completed within 28 days of the HSRs election, and refresher training every year after. Failure to complete the training within the timeframe requires them to step down and be replaced.
Kallibr Training is an approved HSR Training Provider.
Requirements vary between states and territories so it is important to check with your local WHS provider.
Here are some helpful links about health and safety representatives:
- WorkSafe QLD: Health-and-safety-representatives-and-committees
SafeWork NSW: Health-and-safety-representatives
WorkSafe VIC: health-and-safety-representative-training
Location:
Public courses run at Kallibr Training locations in Sydney and Brisbane.
Private training can be organised and conducted onsite if the following training and assessment requirements are met:
- Training room with tables, chairs and screen (or blank wall for a projector)
Frequently Asked Questions: Health & Safety Representative
What is health and safety representative?
A health and safety representative is a specific worker in the workplace who is dedicated to helping support the health and safety of their fellow co-workers and workgroup. Health and safety representative workers are also known as HSR’s and they must complete a health and safety representative course in order to be employed as one.
What is the role of a safety representative?
The role of health and safety representatives includes them researching and investigating accidents and dangerous situations which have taken place. The health and safety representative then attempts to diagnose the situation and find out how the situation happened. Despite this however, the health and safety representative must be cautious not to interfere with the accident.
What responsibilities does a health and safety representative have in the workplace?
The responsibilities of a health and safety representative include speaking to the employer and additional safety enforcement agencies about the interests of the employees, potential hazards and other potential health and safety issues that threaten the wellbeing of the employees.
How do you become a health and safety representative?
Kallibr Training offers courses that can help you become a health and safety representative. You must first be nominated by your workplace (section 54 of the Occupational Health & Safety Act 2004 goes into more detail) and investigate if your current worksite already has a health and safety representative.
Course Outline
- Available at Salisbury and Ingleburn
- Onsite training available
- Nationally recognised
- Group discounts available
- Online booking available
Course Availability & Pricing
Please see our public course dates below. If there are no dates available or you would like to arrange a private course at your site or ours, then please select the ‘Private courses’ button.
Refresher Training
Course Outcomes
Learning Outcome
On completion of the course, participants will have gained the following skills and knowledge in:
- Legislative Requirements: WHS and Australian Standards
- Limitations of rescue equipment and anchorages
- Inspecting equipment in accordance with manufactures specifications and industry procedures
- Identify faulty equipment
- Demonstrating safe emergency descent from a raised EWP
- Demonstrating and assist in rescue of a victim from a raised EWP
Outcome
With successful completion of the training, participants will be issued with a Certificate of Completion.
Further Information
What is a Health and Safety Representative?
A Health and Safety Representative (HSR) is a professional who advocates for the health and safety interests of a work group. The number of HSRs in a workplace is not limited, provided there has been consultation, negotiation, and agreement between the workers and the persons conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU).
HSRs have the authority to issue provisional improvement notices (PINs) for issues that affect the work group they represent. They also have the right to access information held by a PCBU that pertains to:
- hazards (including associated risks) at the workplace affecting workers in the work group
- the health and safety of the workers in the work group
An elected HSR is entitled to perform the following tasks for the work group:
- undertake workplace inspections
- review the circumstances of workplace incidents
- accompany a WHSQ inspector during an inspection
- represent the work group in health and safety matters
- attend an interview about health and safety matters with a worker from the work group (with the consent of the worker)
- request that a health and safety committee be established
- participate in a health and safety committee
- monitor compliance measures
- investigate work health and safety complaints from work group members
- inquire into any risk to the health and safety of workers in the work group
- issue provisional improvement notices and direct a worker to cease unsafe work (where the HSR has completed the approved training).
An HSR is not personally liable for actions taken or not taken in good faith while performing their duties.
