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Risk Specific Training

These courses are related to identified areas of health and safety risk. Coordinated by UniSA’s Safety and Wellbeing Team, they are delivered either online or face-to-face. Records of all completed online and face-to-face risk-specific training is provided and facilitated by the Safety and Wellbeing Team and maintained within the PTC Management System.

View each course below for more detail on what they provide, who it is relevant to and how to access the courses.

For further information, please contact Pam Gomes at Pam.Gomes@unisa.edu.au or on 8302 1634.

UniSA Podcasts:

Building Healthy Coping Skills

How we respond to challenges in life can impact our performance, our relationships and our wellbeing.  This 30 minute module provides a range of strategies for coping with some everyday challenges, with a focus on change.  It explores the notion of resilience and provides a six-step model for working through problems and being better prepared for future challenges.

Employees and HDR Students

Access the online module through the BUPA website.

Understanding Mental Health In Your Team

 

 To protect the health and safety of your people, and to maximise their productivity and engagement, it's vital that you provide them with the appropriate support when they are struggling.  This 30 minute module starts with understanding some of the basics of mental health, including how to spot the signs and how to start and conduct a structured conversation with a team member about their wellbeing.  This module covers all you need to know in simple language, including a helpful model for healthy conversations and some tips to build resilience in your team.

Mandatory for all staff who are responsible for others

Access the online module through the BUPA website.

Manual Handling Safety

  • Identifying, assessing and controlling potential hazards associated with manual tasks in your workplace
  • What constitutes a Hazardous Manual Task (HMT)
  • Who is responsible for identifying, assessing and controlling the risks associated with HMTs
  • Key characteristics of HMTs and the musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) that may arise from performing them
  • Key rules when performing manual tasks in your own work environment.

Employees and HDR Students where manual handling is part of their role

Employees can access the LearnOnline module at the Online Training page.

Environmental Awareness

  • Legal requirements in relation to the environment, organisational and individual environmental management responsibilities
  • How UniSA monitors its impact on the environment
  • Why environmental management is important
  • How to manage waste within UniSA to limit the discharge/ release of contaminants into the environment.

Staff or HDR students who work where liquid waste is generated, stored and disposed.

Employees can access the LearnOnline module at the Online Training page.

Biological Safety

Discusses the safe work practices associated with biological hazards, particularly microbiological organisms, in the workplace. The course is designed to equip laboratory personnel to work safely with biological materials by identifying hazards, assessing risks and then putting in place controls. The course also focuses on the legislative and regulatory obligations of the end user, decontamination, spill management, disposal, and transport issues. The course is divided into modules, and there are scientific (lab-based) and health care (hospital and clinic) derivations. This is the first course.

Staff and HDR students using biohazardous materials

Employees and students can access the module on the Online Training page.

Liquid Nitrogen

  • Physical properties and hazards of liquid nitrogen
  • Proper handling, storage and use
  • Laboratory and personal protective equipment
  • Examples of laboratory safety practices.

Staff and HDR students using liquid nitrogen

Employees and students can access the module on the Online Training page.

Radiation - Ionising Radiation and Research

This course consists of two parts

  • Part 1 - Science and Safety (SA version)
  • Part 2 - Unsealed Sources (SA version)

Staff and HDR students using ionising radiation

Employees and students can access the Learnonline module on the Online Training page.

Fume Cupboards

An introduction to fume cupboards and other types of laboratory exhaust ventilation systems:

  • How a fume cupboard operates and how fumes are contained
  • Effectiveness of fume cupboards for controlling hazardous fumes
  • Visualise how fume cupboards really behave
  • Guidelines for use

Staff and students using fume cupboards in laboratory research environments

Employees and students can access the Learnonline module on the Online Training page.

Chemical Spills Management

  • Decide upon and apply the correct chemical spill control strategy
  • University spill control procedures
  • Type and content of chemical spill
  • How to prevent, prepare and respond to a chemical spill.

Employees and HDR Students who work with chemicals

Employees and students can access the Learnonline module on the Online Training page.

Chemical Safety

  • The effects of hazardous chemicals on the body
  • How you can be exposed to hazardous chemicals
  • Your rights and responsibilities
  • How to find information about hazardous chemicals
  • Methods of controlling hazardous chemicals

Employees and HDR Students who work where chemicals are stored, used and disposed

Employees and students can access the Learnonline module on the Online Training page.

Safe Driving Courses

It is important that employees are equipped to drive each particular type of vehicle safely.

Access Training Centre and Red Earth Expeditions (4WD) provide a range of different types of driving courses to suit each particular need.

Employees required to drive vehicles in the course of their work

To register, please contact external provider.

Emergency Evacuation Training

Emergency evacuation training for Emergency Wardens, Chief Wardens and Deputy Chief Wardens is conducted by approved provider Tactical Training Australia located at 3/190 Glynburn Rd, Tranmere SA 5075 (opposite Firle Shopping Centre - K-Mart/Coles).

Emergency Evacuation Personnel only

For dates and bookings please email Safety and Wellbeing at HSIM.SafetyWellbeing@unisa.edu.au.

 

Provide First Aid (New and Recertification)

Covers a broad range of topics to enable participants to develop competence and confidence in providing an emergency first aid response. This includes calling for help, the ability to respond to first aid situations, casualty assessment, decision-making, and basic life support functions including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) until the arrival of medical or other assistance.

Only designated and back up First Aiders appointed within their respective Academic and/or Central Units and Research Institutes.

Please email Safety and Wellbeing at HSIM.SafetyWellbeing@unisa.edu.au for training details. Training is conducted by approved provider Tactical Training Australia.

Academic and/or Central Units and Research Institutes can contact the following providers directly if they wish to train staff separately.

  • Tactical Training Australia - 8331 1620 (Approved provider with training held at Tactical's location in Tranmere for designated first aid officers only)
  • St John South Australia Inc. - 8306 6900 (External)
  • Australian Red Cross - 1300 367 428 (External)

Health and Safety Representative (HSR)

  • Competencies relating to Health and Safety Representatives Level 1
  • Competencies relating to Health and Safety Representatives Level 2

All elected Health and Safety Representatives

For more information, please email Safety and Wellbeing at HSIM.SafetyWellbeing@unisa.edu.au.

Chemwatch

  • Access vendor and Gold MSDSs
  • Create and delete stores and sub-stores
  • Add, move or delete materials in stores
  • Add and edit quantities
  • Generate Excel reports and hazardous chemicals registers

All employees who are required to access Chemwatch

For dates, locations and bookings, staff can click here and students can click here. For more information, please email the University Chemical Safety Officer at chemsafety@unisa.edu.au.

Plant & Equipment Safety

Explains what 'plant' is and the main regulatory obligations. Describes the safety management process in UniSA for an item of plant or equipment from two main perspectives:

  • using the familiar four-step risk management process
  • using a lifecycle model starting at purchase of the plant.

Staff and research students who work with plant and equipment in workshops, research laboratories, building services or grounds maintenance.

Employees and students can access the Learnonline module on the Online Training page.

Workshop Safety

Inducts students in safe use of a range of plant items which are typically encountered in UniSA student workshops. Shows induction videos on:

  • General workshop induction
  • Bandsaw
  • Disc Sander
  • Drill Press
  • Compound Mitre Saw
  • Metal Lathe
  • Power Hacksaw
  • Bobbin Sander
  • Thicknesser
  • Spot Welder

Students who will be participating in workshop activities which require the safe use of a range of powered workshop plant and equipment.

Students or staff can access the Learnonline module on the Online Training page.