About DGT Training and Employment

Acquire real-world skills applicable to successfully working in a business environment.

This course will teach you:

• Organising schedules and workplace information
• Organising personal work priorities
• Customer service techniques
• Create databases and documents

You will develop skills across various business functions:

• Manage professional development
• Critical thinking
• Recruit and onboard staff
• Manage business finances and risk
• Maintain and expand business networks
• Lead communication and collaborate using IT systems

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course will teach you to:

• Identify hazards and how to assess and control risks
• Develop WHS policies and procedures
• Establish, review and evaluate WHS measures and initiatives
• Identify, interpret and apply WHS Legislation with the inclusion of Australian Standards, Codes and Guideline
• Manage claims and implement rehabilitation / return-to-work programs
• Evaluate information and prepare reports
• Influence workplace culture, values and ethics
• Implement and monitor improvements of environmental sustainability in the workplace

Enhance your opportunities to gain a complete apprenticeship by undertaking this course offering real-world skill development in construction.

This course will give you an introduction to the construction industry, its culture, occupations, job roles, and workplace expectations.

You will learn:

• Essential work health and safety requirements
• Industrial and work organisation structure
• Communication skills
• Work planning
• Basic use of tools and materials

Learn first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills to prepare you for emergency situations in the community and at a workplace through DGT’s First Aid course.

• Manage unconscious breathing and non-breathing adults
• Manage unconscious non-breathing infants
• Recognize the signs and symptoms of common injuries and illness and provide appropriate first aid treatment
• Provide an accurate report of first aid incidents

The course is a blended delivery of online and face-to-face learning and assessment activities.

This course is only available to Queensland residents.

This course is specific for undertaking a carpentry apprenticeship, offering training and real-world experience to become a qualified tradesman.

This course is ideal for those interested in pursuing a career in building, carpentry, construction, trades training, joinery and more.

On-the-job learning with one-on-one observations of training and assessment.

Full Trainer support via phone, email and on-site workplace visits.

Develop your skills in small business ownership, management, strategy, and operations.

This course will teach you:

• Business technology
• Problem-solving & team building
• Leadership and business administration skills
• How to establish networks & build client relationships

Acquire the essential skills and knowledge required to work in a business environment.

This course will teach you:

• How to plan and manage new business finances
• Business management and marketing
• How to establish operational strategies and procedures for new business
• How to establish and manage risk and legal requirements

Learn skills to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) during emergency situations in the community and at a workplace through DGT’s First Aid course.

You will learn techniques to manage the airway for:

• unconscious breathing and non-breathing adults
• unconscious non-breathing infants

And how to:

• use an automated external defibrillator (AED), and
• provide an accurate report of first aid incidents.

The course is a blended delivery of online and face to face learning and assessment activities.

A CPR certificate will be valid in the workplace for 12 months.

Accelerate your knowledge and career in civil construction and plant operations with DGT’s real-world course.

• Time and project management skill development
• Metric and calculation skills
• In-depth studies of plant operations
• Underground services studies
• Interpretations of plans and specifications

This course covers how to:

• Plan and prepare for excavator operations
• Operate excavator in line with established requirements
• Lift, carry, and place materials to complete work activity
• Select, remove, fit, and use attachments for an excavator
• Prepare to relocate the excavator
• Conduct housekeeping activities

This course covers the general construction work health and safety induction training required to work on construction sites Australia-wide. You will learn:

• Personal awareness and knowledge of health and safety legislative requirements
• How to work safely and prevent injury or harm to self and others
• How to identify and report common construction hazards
• An understanding of basic risk control measures
• How to identify procedures for responding to potential incidents and emergencies
• How to correctly select and fit common personal protective equipment (PPE) used for construction work

Enhance your opportunities to gain a complete apprenticeship by undertaking this course offering real-world skill development in the engineering and manufacturing industry.

This course will give you an introduction to the engineering and manufacturing industry, its culture, occupations, job roles, and workplace expectations.

You will learn:

• Essential work health and safety requirements
• Communication skills
• Work planning
• Interact with computing technology
• Use of power tools and fabrication equipment
• Complete a basic engineering project

This course prepares you for working in a confined space across a variety of industries including construction, resources, farming, trades, and more.

• Identifying confined spaces
• Practical entry and exit into and from a confined space
• Identifying and assessing hazards and risks when working in a confined space
• Planning and preparing for entering and working in confined spaces
• Completing a record and/or report of work completed whilst in a confined space
• Interpreting Australian Standards and relevant legislation
• Writing work plans and risk assessments
• Working to a confined space permit
• Working according to site policy and procedures
• Lockout and tag out methods of isolation
• Safety and emergency procedures

Operation of a Forklift requires you to hold a High Risk Work (HRW) license, a mandatory requirement in Australia. This course will provide you with the skills and knowledge to safely operate equipment to prepare you to obtain a forklift truck HRW license.

• Plan and prepare for forklift work
• Operate a forklift truck to perform work
• Pack up and shutdown procedures

Further your knowledge in the practical operations surrounding skid steer loaders and the safe practice accompanying them.

• Plan and prepare for skid steer loader operations
• Operate skid steer loader in line with established requirements
• Load, carry and place materials to complete work activity
• Select, remove, fit and use attachments for a skid steer loader
• Prepare to relocate the skid steer loader
• Conduct housekeeping activities

All electrical equipment is required to be tested and tagged, with testing intervals varying across industries. As an example, if you work in the Construction, Mining, or Demolition industries, test and tag needs to be completed every three months. Take the hassle out of outsourcing and stay compliant by taking this course and doing it yourself!

This course will teach you:

• To identify visual faults
• Personal safety
• Basic electrical testing concepts
• Electrical equipment and cord assemblies testing
• Testing and tagging documentation requirements

Acquire real-world skills in roller operations that translate across a range of practical industries.

• Plan and prepare roller operations
• Operate roller in line with workplace requirements
• Preparation for relocating the roller
• Conducting household activities

Learn the relevant skills that are applicable to manual handling and safe load handling in line with work and occupational health and safety regulations.

• Assess relevant risks associated with relocating loads
• Plan load relocations
• Relocate loads

This industry-approved ticket will ensure that you hold the skillset to safely work at any height.

• Working at heights legislation
• Working at heights hazards, risk analysis and identification
• How to select and inspect the correct safety harness equipment
• To identify appropriate rescue procedures

Learn real-world skills across risk management processes for various industries.

• Plan and prepare for risk management
• Assess and identify unacceptable risk
• Review risk management documentation
• Identify and recommend controls
• Contribute to the implementation of controls

Establish the essential skills required to build and contribute to a valuable business environment.

This unit provides education around the performance, skills and knowledge required to assist with the management of workers’ compensation claims, rehabilitation and return-to-work programs.

This course is specific for undertaking a carpentry apprenticeship, offering training and real-world experience to become a qualified tradesman.

This course will teach you:

• To interpret plans and specifications in order to plan and organise work.
• To construct timber walls, doors, and install and replace windows.
• To use levelling devices.
• To construct pitched roofs, ceiling framers, and eaves.
• To construct, install, and finish structures and fixtures on residential and commercial buildings and infrastructure.