CPD - Continuing Professional Development

The requirement for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) was introduced on 1 January 2016 by WorkSafe and was set out in the gazette notice.

Key learning areas covered in the CPD course is:

Leadership

• Managing errors.
• Understand the concepts and principles of error.
• Understand predisposing factors that can create unsafe acts and unsafe conditions.
• Classify types of human error.
• Reason Human Error theory
• Workplace practices how human factors contributed to an incident.
• How can we manage differently to reduce error.

Legislation

• Health and Safety at Work Act 2015
• Legislative framework
• Key parts of the HSW Act 2015
• Types of PCBU’s
• Responsibilities of duty holders
• PCBU Responsibilities
• Your role
• Worker responsibilities
• Notifiable Events
• Types of Notifiable Events
• Reporting
• Preserving scene

Safety Systems, Isolations Systems 

• Legislation requirement pertaining to Isolation and Lockouts (LOTO)
• The purpose of isolations.
• The types of energy sources including stored energy.
• Responsibilities of Lock-holder, Authorised Persons and Isolation Leaders.
• How Responsibilities relate to the Permit To Work System
• Equipment associated with isolations.
• The Individual Isolation Procedure.
• The Group Isolation Procedure.
• The Authorised Removal of a Personal Padlock.
• Isolation Breaches.

Emergency Management 

• Understand the Coordinated Incident Management System (CIMS ) and the integration with site Emergency Plans
• Legislation requirements in management of emergencies.
• Types of site emergencies.
• Emergency logistics and resources.
• Tasks required to be carried out.
• Review of duty cards to assist in dealing with emergencies.

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