Online Workplace Compliance Training Courses

Online workplace compliance training courses are self-paced eLearning modules that teach Australian workers their obligations on safety, respect and conduct, and record who completed what and when. Delivery is online so a team spread across sites and shifts gets the same content, and the completion evidence sits in one place when an auditor or regulator asks for it.

Under the model WHS laws, a person conducting a business or undertaking must give workers the information, training, instruction and supervision they need to work safely. Training on its own does not discharge that duty, and it does not make an organisation compliant, but an untrained workforce is very hard to defend. Employers also carry a positive duty under the Sex Discrimination Act to take reasonable and proportionate measures to prevent sexual harassment and sex discrimination, and worker education is one of the measures the Australian Human Rights Commission expects to see in place.

Posts filed under this tag look at how Australian organisations choose, roll out and refresh an online course library. The modules most commonly assigned across a whole workforce include:

• Work health and safety for every worker, with a separate version for supervisors
• Sexual harassment prevention, tied to the positive duty
• Workplace bullying and reasonable management action
• Code of conduct awareness, usually paired with a policy acknowledgement

Content is only half of it. Assigning training by role, chasing the stragglers, scheduling refreshers and keeping the records is where most programmes come undone, which is why the courses are better run inside a workplace compliance system than off a spreadsheet. One practical note on jurisdiction. The model WHS laws have been adopted everywhere except Victoria, which runs its own OHS Act, so a national employer needs training and record keeping that holds up in both. This is general information rather than legal advice, obligations vary by state and territory and change over time, and anything contested is worth putting in front of a lawyer. The current position is set out by Safe Work Australia.

Browse the full catalogue of online compliance training courses to see what is available and how each module is structured.