Workplace Preparedness and Risk Control Assistant: Communicable and Other Occupational Diseases

What Will You Learn?

• Understand legal framework of OHS and directives on healthy and safe work environments.
• Understand the basics of workplace hazard identification and risk assessment.
• Know the difference between a hazard and a risk.
• Structured approach to assessing health and safety risks.
• Know how to obtain information relating to a hazard and risk from relevant OHS sources such as Safety data sheets.
• Apply basic principles of Occupational Hygiene and Safety (i.e. anticipation, identification, evaluation and control).
• Contribute to support health, well-being and prevention of spread of communicable and other occupational diseases.