Healthcare
According to WorkSafe Victoria, if you work in the healthcare sector, the main risks of harm you face are from
- Falling from machinery and equipment
- Mobile plant such as fork lift trucks
- Working with machinery, equipment and hand tools
- Hazardous manual handling and poor ergonomics
- Lifting and assisting patients/ residents
- Pushing and pulling equipment such as wheelchairs, trolleys and beds
- Slips trips
- Work-related violence, stress, bullying and fatigue as well as shiftwork (psychosocial hazards)
Tailored Training and specialised HSE Services for the Healthcare Industry
HAZCON has delivered a range of tailored training, HSE Consulting and Occupational Hygiene services to clients in the healthcare industry such as:
- West Gippsland Healthcare Group
- Austin Health
- Cabrini Health
- Gippsland Southern Health Service
- Gippsland Veterinary Group
- Royal Eye and Ear Hospital
- Cancer Council
Training can be tailored to your specific requirements. We engage closely with all clients to provide tailored training products to meet your needs. Typically, we will have the conversation with you to ensure that any relevant policies and procedures such as manual handling and issue resolution are included. We can also check that these are current and compliant.
Training Compliance
Your training needs analysis should consider what courses are necessary for you to provide to your team under OHS legislation and may include:
- Managing and supervising OHS (including psychosocial factors) in the healthcare sector
- Hazardous manual handling
- Health and Safety Representative (HSR) Initial OHS Training
- HSR Refresher OHS Training
- Asbestos awareness training
- Emergency warden and initial fire attack
HAZCON can help you with this.
Point of Difference
The point of difference with using HAZCON is our people, our knowledge and our experience of working both in and with the healthcare sector;
Since 1994, HAZCON has been committed to offering quality training services to our clients. Our extensive experience and knowledge of OHS in Australian workplaces gives us the ability to provide our clients with professional OHS assistance and training that is coherent, targeted and relevant to each workplace.
HAZCON enjoys excellent course feedback mainly due to our expertise in OHS and client requirements in the construction sector, and would welcome the opportunity of working with you
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