General OHS training for staff

For managers, supervisors, Safety Officers, HSRs

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

A recording of this session is available.

Watch the online Safetyhub videos relating to Stress

For customer service and front line staff

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

Watch the online Safetyhub videos relating to Bomb Threats and Evacuations

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 online Safetyhub videos dealing with Violence and Aggression

Effectively managing:

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

This module is available online and can be completed any time.

Additional resources for Wardens are available on the Emergency and security web page, including emergency phone numbers, emergency 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 brief (12 minute) online presentation

A recording of a previous Teams session is available.

• 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.

Watch the online Safetyhub video – Recognition, Evaluation and Control of Hazards

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

Watch the online SafetyHub video – Hazardous Substances – The Fundamentals

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

Watch the online SafetyHub video - Lockout

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

Watch the online SafetyHub 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 in-house session is available here

Watch the online Safetyhub videos dealing with Violence and Aggression

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 online Safetyhub videos relating to Safety Data Sheets