General OHS training

For managers, supervisors, Safety Officers, HSRs

• Definition and significance of work stress
• Types of interventions
• Prevention

A recording of the Better understanding and preventing stress (1 hr 20 mins) session is available.

Watch the online Safetyhub videos relating to Stress for additional support.

For customer service and frontline staff

• Responding appropriately to phoned, written or verbal bomb threats
• Identifying suspect mail items and other objects, and taking appropriate steps

Watch the Safetyhub videos on Bomb threats and evacuations for essential guidance.

For any staff member who may be exposed to difficult or aggressive interaction with a customer/student/member of the public

• Sources of aggression
• Risk assessment and the ‘aggression continuum’
• Pre-emptive planning – organisational and personal
• Situational awareness
• Incident response techniques
• Self-defence protocols and post-incident procedures
• Scenarios

Watch the Safetyhub videos on Violence and aggression for practical guidance.

Effectively managing:

• General emergencies
• Building and campus evacuations
• Specific emergencies (e.g. serious injury/illness, threats, etc)

View the Emergency management for wardens recording (30 mins)

Additional resources are available on the Emergency and security web page, including emergency phone numbers, guides, defibrillator locations, and security contacts.

For managers, supervisors, Safety Officers, HSRs, wardens

• Defining and ensuring appropriate levels of first aid cover
• Dealing with injuries and illnesses within the University environment
• Planning for emergencies: drawing up local emergency instructions, selecting Area Wardens, conducting drills, etc.

Watch a short Introduction to General incident and emergency management (12 mins)

Or view the full General incident and emergency management recording (1 hr 38 mins)

• Identifying hazards, assessing and controlling risks for existing or new activities, equipment and substances, items of plant and projects
• Reporting hazards and resolving issues
• Managing the OHS aspects of workplace change

A brief overview is available online.

Visit Safetyhub to watch the Recognition, evaluation and control of hazards video (13 mins)

For managers, supervisors, technical staff, Safety Officers, HSRs

• Definitions of hazardous substances and dangerous goods
• How to use and store different classes of chemicals
• Introduction to Safety Data Sheets and how to access and interpret them
• Determining the need for signage, markings, placards

Visit SafetyHub to watch the Hazardous substances - the fundamentals video (9 mins)

For managers, supervisors, Safety Officers, HSRs

• Reporting: near-miss and minor incidents, injuries and serious incidents, emergencies
• Determining why and when investigation is warranted
• Using appropriate investigative techniques
• Documenting results of investigations, and identifying and implementing appropriate corrective actions.

For technical and workshop staff, trades personnel, TAFE teachers

• Overview of Federation procedure
• Introduction to lock-out equipment and tagging system

Visit SafetyHub to watch the Lockout video (9 mins)

Focuses primarily on designing manual handling tasks to be safer. Correct lifting techniques are only covered briefly.

• Identifying hazardous manual handling tasks
• Assessing manual handling risks
• Selecting and implementing control strategies for manual handling risks

Visit SafetyHub to watch videos relating to Manual handling

For managers, supervisors, Safety Officers, HSRs, wardens

• What is workplace violence
• The law as it applies to workplace violence
• Five steps to violence prevention
• Response procedures for violent incidents in the workplace

A recording of the Preventing workplace violence session is available.

Watch the Safetyhub videos on Violence and aggression for practical guidance.

For staff who come into contact with chemicals in the workplace

• What are they?
• Where can they be obtained?
• Where are they kept at Federation?
• Why are they needed?

Watch the Safetyhub videos relating to Safety Data Sheets