• Introduction
• Assessment guidelines
• Review of decision
  • Stage 1 - Compliance with legislation
  • Stage 2 - Audit of management systems
• Determining level of achievement
• Reporting of outcomes
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Element 7 - Training

Scope

This element examines the training requirements at three critical levels. Firstly, for employees as preparation for work ie induction, during the course of employment through in-service programs and for managers relative to effective discharge of their health and safety responsibilities.

The organisation is required to provide evidence that:

• new workers are trained as part of a program. This may include company conditions and standards and deal with specific workplace risk controls and contingency measures, eg. emergency evacuation;
• training takes account of the health and safety needs of workers as they carry out their day to day activities;
• such training includes newly created or changed jobs and takes into account job analysis outcomes and control measures developed as a result of hazard identification and assessment;
• demonstrates that persons with designated responsibilities in the health and safety program receive and successfully complete structured competency based training enabling them to discharge their responsibilities, eg. accident investigation strategies and supervisory techniques;
• demonstrates that a system is in place to ensure that appropriate training is undertaken and recorded;
• demonstrates that the employer evaluates the effectiveness of any training program against declared performance standards.