Intended audience: Health and Safety Representatives (HSRs), Managers, Charge Nurses, Team Leaders, and Nurse Educators of Waitematā DHB.

Prerequisites: HSRs must have completed the Health and Safety Representatives (Stage 1) course. This course is intended to be taken in your second year as a HSR. There are no prerequisites for Managers, Charge Nurses, Team Leaders and Nurse Educators.

Duration: 1 Day

Method: face-to-face training
Course Contact: Miguel Jose (Miguel.jose@waitematadhb.govt.nz)

About this course:

Creating a safe workplace is about having the right resources and tools to do the job safely and creating an environment that promotes safe practice. This course will explain how the focus of people at all levels at the WDHB are critical to making sure that hazards which can harm people, and the identification and management of risks, are understood and managed effectively.

This one-day training course will provide you with the skills necessary to apply the correct principles to participate in workplace risk management at the WDHB.

This course covers:

• Understanding the context of risk management.
• Understanding what ‘standard of care’, ‘foreseeable hazards’ and ‘reasonably practical’ means.
• Understanding the nature of safety, health and psychosocial risk.
• Applying risk models, which foster positive participation and engagement with your team.
• Practical strategies for on-going risk assessment and review.