When you complete the BSB41419 Certificate IV in Work Health and Safety, you’ll have the confidence and ability to manage a WHS program across a broad range of industries. You’ll extend your understanding of WHS information and data systems, emergency procedures, hazard and risk management, incident investigation and research analysis.
This qualification is suitable for people who apply advanced practical knowledge to coordinate, facilitate and maintain the Work Health and Safety (WHS) program in one or more fields of work in an organization, such as a WHS practitioner or HR practitioner. They may work under the guidance
of an occupational health and safety professional.
- Increased demand for practitioners within larger organisations to set up WHS management systems that mesh with company policies and procedures, and that also meet regulatory, tender and external accreditation requirements
- Increasing consolidation of the WHS role and that of allied areas such as workers’ compensation, rehabilitation/return-to work, quality, human resources management and training and, increasingly, environment and security
- Greater specialisation of the WHS practitioner role, particularly in larger organisations, as well as an increased reliance on WHS consultants, particularly among medium-sized organisations
- An increasing requirement for WHS practitioners to understand how WHS can contribute to the overall business strategy and to build related communication/change management skills.