Shafston School of Business

Certificate IV in Work Health and Safety

This qualification applies to individuals working in a work health and safety (WHS) role who provide a broad range of technical knowledge and skills, and have some limited responsibility for the output of others.

This qualification applies to those working as supervisors, WHS personnel, and workers in other WHS-related roles who manage risks effectively, apply relevant WHS laws, and contribute to WHS within the workplace in known or changing contexts with established parameters. The course has been structured based on a fee-for-service traineeship model, whereby achievement of the qualification is obtained through confirmation of skills and abilities both on the job and via completion of competency-based assessment tasks administered by Shafston; accordingly, learners will be required to interact with all three parties under this model: the Apprenticeship Network Provider, the employer, and the RTO (Shafston).

Learners will fully absorb the required knowledge and develop the necessary skills over time in the different contexts they will experience in a professional workplace environment. Learners will receive direct instruction f rom their trainer/assessor and on-the-job mentoring and direction from their workplace supervisor.

Given that the majority of learners will have pre-existing relationships with their workplace supervisors, it is expected that the process of verifying supervisor qualifications will be expedited as part of the original employer resource assessment process.