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To ensure you are informed of the changes under WHS and understand what you need to do to be compliant, Business SA is running a series of seminars, along with its extensive program of training courses on WHS related issues.
Our Seminars will provide you with a broad understanding and overview of the incoming changes. There are a variety of sessions available, ranging from basic guides through to those that discuss more complex issues.
The following is a list of the available Seminars, click the book now link to register and keep checking back on our website for new WHS courses. Download the course brochure.
These sessions are designed to be an overview, informing businesses of the impending changes under the proposed WHS legislation. You will receive an overview of what you need to do to be compliant with the new laws and how to start preparing your business and workers.
Due Diligence and Governance for Officers 
An officer is a person who makes decisions, or participates in making decisions that affect the whole or substantial part of a business or undertaking and has the capacity to significantly affect the financial standing of the business or undertaking. If a person is responsible only for implementing those decisions, they are not considered an officer. It is the duty of an officer to ensure the PCBU complies with their health and safety duties and responsibilities. An officer may be charged with an offence under the WHS Act if they fail to notify the PCBU of a risk to health and safety.
Review and Update Day for Health and Safety Representatives
The Review and Update Day provides Health and Safety Representatives with an overview of changes to their role and responsibilities under WHS. Key areas that impact the business will also be covered.
Record Keeping Requirements under WHS Legislation
Whilst record keeping has always been a requirement under OHS, proposed changes to the Work Health and Safety Legislation will see a greater emphasis on record keeping within organisations. This seminar will provide you with an overview of the record keeping requirements and tips on systems to have in place to meet these.
The role of the HSR and workgroups
Proposed WHS legislation will significantly change the relationship between Workgroups and their respective Health and Safety Representatives (HSR). Under new legislation workgroups will become more fluid with workers affording opportunity to decide on workgroups and multiple workgroup formation and then duly electing HSR’s.
Understanding Codes of Practice
Changes to the Work Health and Safety legislation will see the implementation of over 30 new or revised Codes of Practice. These are designed to support the Act and Regulations. This seminar will assist you to understand how to interpret Codes of Practice, ensure compliance within your business and understand where they sit in underpinning the legislation. The Code of Practice for Consultation will be covered in this seminar as an example.
Working from home - your WHS obligations
With changes to technology and working arrangements, more people are working from either a virtual office or a home office. Under WHS a PCBU has a duty of care and certain obligations and requirements that must be met to ensure that wherever their workers are working from, they are safe. This seminar will provide you with the skills and knowledge to ensure that processes are in place to meet these requirements.
Roles and Responsibilities of a Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking (PCBU)
A PCBU conducts a business or undertaking alone or with others. To meet the definition the business or undertaking can operate for profit or not-for profit. The definition of a PCBU focuses on the work arrangements and the relationships to carry out the work. In addition to an employer, a PCBU can be a corporation, an association, a partnership or sole trader. A volunteer organisation which employs any person to carry out work is considered a PCBU.
Union Right of Entry – What rights do they have?
This seminar will inform employers of the union right of entry provisions under the Fair Work Act 2009 as well as the impending changes for the introduction of the WHS Act.
