Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment Training Course (HIRA)

It is a short online course that an organisation puts in front of its employees, contractors, volunteers and new starters so each of them can recognise the hazards in their work, report them properly and understand how the resulting risk is rated. Every completion is logged against the person, so you can show who was trained and when.

Yes. The hazard identification and risk management course follows the model work health and safety laws adopted across Australia and the equivalent New Zealand legislation, and Sentrient keeps course content up to date as the law changes in each state and territory. It describes what regulators expect in plain words. Meeting those expectations at each site stays with your organisation.

Most organisations lean on a site induction video, a toolbox talk when something goes wrong, or a free module someone finds online. None of those leaves a record of who was trained across the whole workforce. Sentrient gives everyone the same course with completion logged. Our guide to a WHS management system and our piece on managing WHS risks as a supervisor cover the wider system this training feeds.

No, it is an awareness course for an organisation’s workforce, not a unit of competency, not a licence and not legal advice, and it does not carry out a HIRA for your site. It teaches workers to find and report hazards so the assessments your organisation runs start from a complete picture. For the judging and controlling of those risks, assign the risk assessment training course alongside it.

The model WHS laws expect a person conducting a business or undertaking to identify reasonably foreseeable hazards, assess and control the risks and review the controls, consulting workers along the way. Safe Work Australia sets this out in its model Code of Practice on managing work health and safety risks. The course helps your workers take part. The duty itself remains your organisation’s.

Every person who works on your sites needs hazard identification training, because the person closest to the task sees the hazard first. Supervisors and managers who run inspections, review hazard reports or approve controls should add Sentrient’s work health and safety training course for managers and supervisors, since it covers the decisions that sit with them.

Free modules such as Ai Group’s hazards and controls module are written for an individual who logs in alone. Sentrient hands the organisation a single course for its whole workforce, assigned from one place, with every completion recorded and content kept current for each state and territory. The free module is worth a look for one person. The organisation still needs proof that all of them did it.

The hazard identification and risk assessment course takes fifteen to thirty minutes online, in one sitting, so a crew can complete it at a pre-start meeting or a new starter can finish it during induction. Workers go at their own pace, which makes it simple to plan around the roster.

Your organisation sets the cycle. Sentrient courses are assigned at induction and then repeated as a refresher whenever you choose. A refresher makes sense whenever the work changes: new plant, a new site, a new chemical, a change of shift pattern or a near miss that showed people had stopped noticing something. The decision on timing stays with your organisation.

Sentrient writes its online compliance courses in partnership with Mills Oakley Lawyers in Australia and Simpson Grierson Lawyers in New Zealand, and keeps the content up to date as legislation changes. This hazard identification and risk assessment training follows the model WHS laws and Safe Work Australia’s guidance on identifying hazards. It supports the steps your organisation takes and does not stand in for them.

The content is reviewed and updated whenever the law moves in any Australian state or territory or in New Zealand, so the version a worker opens reflects current expectations. Updates flow into the course Sentrient hosts. If you run the hazard identification and risk assessment HIRA training inside your own LMS, ask us how updates reach it. Applying the law at each site remains your organisation’s job.

Physical hazards such as noise, heat, moving plant and working at height, chemical hazards from substances and fumes, biological hazards such as infection and animal contact, ergonomic hazards from lifting and repetitive work, and psychosocial hazards such as workload, isolation and aggression. Hazard awareness training that names all five stops a workplace from looking only for the obvious ones.

Yes. Hazard identification and risk assessment online training runs inside the Sentrient platform, your existing learning management system or your HRIS, and hosting it in your own LMS usually means loading the course package into that platform. Your completion data then lives where you already keep training records, and staff keep the login they already have.

Inside the Sentrient platform you direct the learning to individuals, teams, sites or the whole organisation, monitor who has started and who has finished from one screen, and nudge anyone who has not finished their mandatory learning with a reminder. A site manager does not have to chase people by phone. Completion records update the moment each person finishes.

Each completion is stored against the worker with a date and can be reported by site, team or contractor company. A regulator after an incident, an insurer during a claim or an auditor during a certification visit may ask what hazard management training a worker received, and you can produce the record. The record proves the training. The controls in the workplace remain your organisation’s responsibility.

No. The course teaches people to find and report hazards. The software side is the Sentrient risk management system, where your organisation logs those hazards, rates the risk, assigns an owner, links controls and incidents and keeps the audit trail. One trains the eye, the other keeps the record. They are sold separately and work together.

The work health and safety training course covers every worker’s general duties and the incident reporting training course covers what to do once something has happened. Together with this course they give a worker the full sequence: know your duties, find and report the hazard, report the incident if the hazard is missed.

Yes. HIRA training online runs in any web browser, which lets a worker finish it in a site office, a crib room, a depot or at home, wherever there is a connection. Nothing is installed, and a contractor can finish it before their first day on site rather than in the first hour of it.

Yes. One course serves every Australian state and territory as well as New Zealand, so a business with depots in Brisbane, Adelaide and Christchurch assigns the same hazard awareness training once and reports on completion across all of them. The content reflects the legislation of each jurisdiction and is kept current. Site-specific requirements remain your organisation’s responsibility.

Learner records from the HIRA training course sit inside the Sentrient platform and are managed under the Australian Privacy Principles. Access is limited to the people your organisation nominates, who can see who has completed what. How your organisation collects and uses its own staff information remains its responsibility.

Because the hazard identification and risk management training is one course in a workplace compliance course library that an organisation rolls out from one place, backed by legal review of the content, completion records built in, and a team in Melbourne behind the platform. One course, one assignment, one report, whether you train a crew of twelve or a workforce across the country.

Any organisation whose people can meet a hazard at work: manufacturers, warehouses, construction and trade businesses, health and community services, schools and councils. Sentrient clients include Pental Limited, DWS Group, Engineers Australia and Modern Dental Pacific. Read how Pental Limited automated its compliance processes with Sentrient, including a hazard identification course its staff found easy to use.

Pricing for the hazard identification and risk assessment HIRA course is per user. The quote is tailored to the number of people you need to train and to any other courses from the library you want alongside it. No figure appears on this page because the right number depends on the size of your workforce. Ask for a quote during your demo.

Book a free 20-minute demo. We will show you the hazard awareness course as a learner sees it, how it is assigned and tracked, and what the completion report looks like. Bring your WHS coordinator or whoever runs site inductions, because the practical questions are theirs. Request your free demo.