Risk Assessment Training Course

It is a short online course an organisation assigns to its employees, contractors, volunteers and new starters so they understand what a hazard is, how a risk is assessed and what part they play in controlling it. Each completion is recorded, so you can show who has done the training and when.

Yes. Sentrient online compliance courses cover legislation for all states and territories in Australia and for New Zealand, and the content is kept up to date as legislation changes. The course describes what the law expects in plain terms. Your organisation remains responsible for meeting the law that applies at each of its sites.

Most organisations rely on toolbox talks, a consultant’s half-day session for a few supervisors, or a free module a worker completes on their own. Each leaves gaps in who was trained and when. Sentrient gives every worker the same course with a record of completion. Our guides on how to run a workplace risk assessment and building a risk assessment framework cover the process itself.

No, it is an awareness course an organisation assigns to its people, not a unit of competency, a licence or legal advice, and it does not carry out a risk assessment for your site. It teaches your people the process so they can take part in the assessments your organisation runs. Where high-risk work calls for a nationally recognised unit, that sits alongside this course, not in place of it.

Under the model WHS laws, a person conducting a business or undertaking must manage risks to health and safety so far as is reasonably practicable. Safe Work Australia describes this as a four-step process: identify hazards, assess risks, control them and review the controls. Training helps your people take part in that process. Your organisation remains responsible for carrying it out.

Everyone who works on your sites: employees, contractors, volunteers and new starters, because any of them can spot a hazard first. Supervisors and managers who lead assessments or approve controls should also complete the work health and safety training course for managers and supervisors, which covers their added duties.

Free modules, such as Ai Group’s WHS learning modules, teach an individual who logs in on their own. Sentrient gives the organisation one course for the whole workforce, assigned from a single place, with a record of every completion and content kept current for every state and territory. The free module is a good read for one person. The organisation still needs evidence that everyone did the training.

It takes fifteen to thirty minutes online, in one sitting, so a worker can complete it during induction, at the start of a shift or between jobs without a day off site. Workers go at their own pace, which keeps rostering simple.

That is your organisation’s decision. Sentrient courses can be assigned at induction and again as a refresher on an ongoing basis. The model Code of Practice expects controls to be reviewed when one fails, before a change at the workplace, when a new hazard appears or when consultation calls for it. A refresher at those points keeps the process alive, and your organisation remains responsible for setting the cycle.

Sentrient online compliance courses are written in partnership with Mills Oakley Lawyers for Australia and Simpson Grierson Lawyers for New Zealand, and kept up to date as legislation changes. The risk assessment course is written to the model WHS laws and the Safe Work Australia Code of Practice on managing risks. Training supports the steps your organisation takes. It does not replace them.

Course content is reviewed and updated as legislation changes in each Australian state and territory and in New Zealand, so the version your people see reflects current law. Updates apply to the course Sentrient hosts. If you host the course in your own LMS, ask us how updates reach it. Your organisation remains responsible for applying the law at its own sites.

It explains the order the Code of Practice sets out: eliminate the hazard where you can, then substitute, isolate or engineer it out, then use administrative controls, with personal protective equipment as the last line. Workers learn why a sign or a glove is not the first answer, and how to raise a better control through your own procedure. The course does not replace that procedure.

Yes. The course can run inside the Sentrient platform, your existing learning management system or your HRIS. Delivery through your own LMS usually means uploading the course file to that platform. Completion data then sits wherever you already track training, so there is no second system for staff to log in to.

In the Sentrient platform you direct learning to individuals, teams or the whole organisation, monitor progress from one place and send a reminder to anyone who has not completed mandatory learning. That saves a WHS coordinator from chasing people by email. Completion records update as each person finishes.

Each completion is recorded against the person with the date, and can be reported on by team or site. If a regulator, insurer or lawyer asks what training a worker received before an incident, you can produce the record rather than search for a sign-in sheet. The record shows the training happened. Your organisation remains responsible for the controls themselves.

No. The course teaches people how a risk is identified, assessed and controlled. The Sentrient risk management system is where your organisation logs risks, assigns owners, links hazards and incidents to controls and keeps the audit trail. They work together: the course so staff understand the process, the software so the process is recorded. Each also works on its own.

The incident reporting training course covers what to do when something goes wrong, and the working alone training course covers the risks of working without others nearby. Together with this course they cover the loop the regulators describe: assess and control the risk, report the incident, learn from it and review the control.

Yes. Risk assessment training online runs in a web browser, so a worker can complete it wherever they have a connection: a site office, a depot, a ward or home. Nothing needs to be installed, and a shift worker does not need to be in head office to complete it.

Yes. One course covers every Australian state and territory and New Zealand, so a business with sites in more than one jurisdiction assigns the same training once and reports completion across the organisation. Content is kept current as legislation changes in each place. Your organisation remains responsible for the specific requirements that apply at each site.

Learner records are held in the Sentrient platform and handled in line with the Australian Privacy Principles. Only the people your organisation nominates can see completion data. Your organisation remains responsible for how it collects and uses its own staff information.

Because the course is one part of a workplace compliance course library your organisation can roll out from a single place, with legal review behind the content, completion records built in and a Melbourne-based team behind it. You assign the same course to a small team or a whole workforce and report on it together.

Any organisation with hazards to manage and a workforce to train: manufacturers, community health and disability providers, housing and not-for-profit services, schools and professional firms. Sentrient clients include Pental Limited, Grampians Community Health, Housing Trust and Carinya Society. Read how Grampians Community Health strengthened its workplace compliance with Sentrient.

Pricing is per user, with a tailored quote based on how many people you need to train and whether you want other courses from the library as well. There is no figure on this page because the right number depends on your workforce. Ask for a quote when you book a demo.

Book a free 20-minute demo. We will show you the risk assessment course online as a learner sees it, how it is assigned and tracked in the Sentrient platform, and how completion records are reported. Bring your WHS coordinator or whoever runs induction, because they will have the practical questions. Request your free demo.