Sentrient is proud to release the new Creating a Safe and healthy workplace online course as its latest online course that forms part of a series of online compliance courses to help supervisors and managers take proactive steps to mitigate against breaches of safety, invasion of privacy, and incidents of bullying, discrimination, and sexual harassment.

Why is creating a safe and healthy workplace for supervisors and managers course important?

Supervisors and managers have a duty to act on behalf of their employer to prevent and respond to work health and safety incidents, both physical and mental. This requires supervisors and managers to take proactive steps to mitigate against work health and safety incidents.

What responsibilities do supervisors and managers have when it comes to eliminating work health and safety incidents in the workplace?

Education

Supervisors and managers have a responsibility to understand the law relating to work health and safety, recognise the drivers and impacts of health and safety issues, and assist others how in identifying and responding to risks to health and safety through information sharing.

Identify, assess, and control risks

Supervisors and managers have a responsibility to identify workplace health and safety risks and implement effective systems such as consultation with employees, regular workplace inspections, review of control measures, development of safe work procedures and analyses of records.

Prevention

Supervisors and managers have a responsibility to contribute to the development, implementation and continuous improvement of your employers’ work health and safety policy, procedures, and/or prevention plan.

Set and maintain standards

Supervisors and managers have a responsibility to set and maintain standards for a safe, inclusive, and respectful workplace.

Risk management

Supervisors and managers have a responsibility to contribute to a safe, inclusive, and respectful workplace culture by considering the factors that may give rise to risks of work health and safety incidents in your workplace and implementing measures to mitigate those risks.

Reporting and responding

Supervisors and managers have a responsibility to address incidents of work health and safety consistently and confidentially, to hold wrongdoers accountable for their conduct, to support all staff, and to demonstrate to bystanders that your employer has zero tolerance for behaviour that is considered unsafe in the workplace.

Monitoring and evaluation

Supervisors and managers have a responsibility to participate in the monitoring and evaluation of your employer’s prevention plan for eliminating work health and safety incidents in the workplace.

What does the Creating a Safe and Healthy Workplace for Supervisors and Managers online course cover?

This online course on creating a safe and healthy workplace for supervisors and managers will help you to circumvent instances of work health and safety incidents and includes guidelines for responding to concerns about work health and safety in the workplace.

What topics are covered in the Creating a Safe and Healthy Workplace for Supervisors and Managers online course?

The topics covered in the Creating a Safe and Healthy Workplace for Supervisors and Managers course are:

  1. What is a safe and healthy workplace?
  2. Duty to provide a safe and healthy workplace
  3. Developing mental health strategies
  4. Responding to incidents that pose a threat to work health and safety
  5. Reporting health and safety incidents in the workplace
  6. How to manage work health and safety risks
  7. Contributing to a safe, inclusive, and respectful workplace

Why would you deliver the creating a safe and healthy workplace for supervisors and managers training at your workplace?

Work Health and Safety (WHS) is a serious issue, and supervisors and managers should be aware of their roles and duties to eliminate work-related incidents to the extent possible or minimise them. Apart from physical safety, they should also understand the impact that mental health issues can have in your workplace.

Businesses have an obligation to take all reasonable steps to ensure the workplace is safe. To achieve this, it is expected that everyone:

  • takes care of their own health and safety and that of others while at work, working from home or working in any other location
  • works together to ensure a healthy and safe work environment.

Once your supervisors and managers have completed this online Creating a Safe and Healthy Workplace for Supervisors and Managers course, your organisation will be able to:

  • Reduce incidents of work health and safety incidents.
  • Mitigate the risk of claims for vicarious liability associated with unlawful workplace behaviour carried out by workers or agents.
  • Protect your reputation from the damage caused by incidents of workplace health and safety incidents.
  • Present a vision for all workers to do the right thing.
  • Ensure a safe, inclusive, and respectful workplace culture.
  • Gain a competitive advantage by becoming an employer of choice.

Like to learn more?

To find out more about the responsibilities of a supervisor and manager when it comes to creating a safe and healthy workplace, please refer to the Sentrient Creating a Safe and Healthy Workplace for Supervisors and Managers online course from our website.

Other online compliance courses for supervisors and managers

The Creating a Safe and Healthy Workplace for Supervisors and Managers training is one of a suite of six online compliance courses that deal with the duty that supervisors and managers have to represent their employer and contribute to a safe, inclusive and respectful workplace culture.

To get a free demonstration of the online course on preventing and responding to workplace bullying for supervisors and managers, please get in touch with us today!