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Hand-Arm and Whole-Body Vibration Awareness
A short, visual awareness course on the two ways vibration injures workers, hand-arm vibration from powered tools and whole-body vibration from mobile plant. Learn the early warning signs, how exposure builds from vibration strength and time and the practical controls that work: better tools, maintenance, seating and job rotation. Includes diagrams, a real site decision scenario and quick self-checks.
Also relevant for: Farm and Rural, Construction and Trades, Manufacturing and Industrial, Mining and FIFO, Warehouse, Transport and Logistics
What You Will Learn
- Distinguish hand-arm vibration from whole-body vibration and identify common sources of each on Australian worksites
- Recognise the early symptoms of hand-arm vibration syndrome and of whole-body vibration injury
- Explain how vibration magnitude and exposure time combine to build a daily vibration dose
- Apply the hierarchy of controls to vibration through tool selection, maintenance, seating and job rotation
- Describe the WHS duties for managing vibration as a hazardous manual task and a plant risk
Course Content
Final Assessment: 10 questions, 80% pass mark, retakes available
Who This Course Is For
Construction, manufacturing, workshop and plant-operating workers and their supervisors, anyone who uses vibrating hand tools or operates mobile plant and those responsible for managing vibration risk.
Sources and Legal References
This course is aligned to 21 official sources. Legal and regulatory references checked between 31 August 2026 and 1 November 2026.
Sources and Further Reading
This course draws on the following official sources. Always rely on the current version on the regulator’s website.
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Act 2011 (Cth)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Act 2020 (WA)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Act 2012 (SA)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Act 2012 (Tas)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Act 2011 (ACT)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2011 (NT)As at 31/08/2026
- LegislationOccupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic)As at 31/08/2026
- Regulator guidanceSafe Work Australia, Identify, assess and control hazardsAs at 31/08/2026
- Australian StandardAS 2670As at 03/09/2026
- Australian StandardISO 2631As at 03/09/2026
- Australian StandardISO 5349As at 03/09/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (ACT)As at 31/10/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Regulation 2025 (NSW)As at 01/11/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety (National Uniform Legislation) Regulations 2011 (NT)As at 31/10/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Regulation 2011 (Qld)As at 31/10/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Regulations 2012 (SA)As at 13/09/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety Regulations 2022 (Tas)As at 31/10/2026
- LegislationOccupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017 (Vic)As at 01/11/2026
- LegislationWork Health and Safety (General) Regulations 2022 (WA)As at 31/10/2026
Always rely on the current version on the regulator’s website.
Accreditation: This is a non-accredited awareness course. It builds vibration hazard awareness only. It does not issue a unit of competency, is not health or medical advice and is not a substitute for a high-risk work licence, the accredited training required to operate certain plant in your state or territory or any health monitoring your workplace arranges.
$39.00
inc GSTSeven day refund if you have not started
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For employers and teams
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$39.00 per seat, inc GST
Total inc GST$195.00
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What You Get
Certificate of Completion
This is to certify that
Sample Learner
has successfully completed
Hand-Arm and Whole-Body Vibration Awareness
All learning modules and the final assessment
Scan the QR code, or enter certificate ID WP-SAMPLE-0001 at workproof.com.au/verify
Kam Askari
Director, Creative Directions Management Consulting Pty Ltd
This is a certificate of completion of a non-accredited professional development course. It is not a nationally recognised qualification, a VET statement of attainment, a competency card, a licence, or evidence of competency. It is issued by Creative Directions Management Consulting Pty Ltd, which is not a Registered Training Organisation.
Sample layout. Certificate ID WP-SAMPLE-0001 verifies as Hazardous Manual Tasks and Manual Handling Safety.
- Certificate verified by its ID
- 100% online, self-paced
- Six months of access
Bought for yourself: six months of access from the day you pay. Team seat: six months from the day the worker activates their code.
Level: Beginner
