A practical, visual awareness course on staying safe in warehouses, storerooms and distribution centres. Learn to spot the everyday hazards of storage work, unstable racking, hazardous manual tasks, forklifts sharing space with people, unsafe stacking and poor housekeeping and how the WHS general duties shape the way these are controlled. Paced slides with diagrams, self-checks and a real workplace decision scenario for logistics, retail and distribution workers.
~35 minutes100% online, self-paced6 months access from the day of course start
What You Will Learn
Identify the common hazards in warehouse and storage work and how the WHS general duties apply to them
Explain how to keep pallet racking stable, including load limits, inspection and reporting damage
Describe safe manual task practices and when to use mechanical handling aids instead of lifting by hand
Apply safe systems for separating pedestrians from forklifts and other powered mobile plant
Recognise safe stacking and housekeeping practices that prevent slips, trips and falling loads
Course Content
1. Warehouse hazards and your duties
2. Racking and storage stability
3. Manual tasks and mechanical aids
4. Pedestrians and forklifts
5. Safe stacking and housekeeping
6. Apply it: a warehouse decision scenario
Final Assessment - 10 questions, 80% pass mark, retakes available
Who This Course Is For
Warehouse, storeroom and distribution-centre workers, pickers and packers, receiving and dispatch staff, retail stockroom teams and their supervisors.
Accreditation: This is a non-accredited awareness course. It builds general safety awareness only and does not issue a unit of competency. It is not a substitute for licensed or accredited training, in particular, operating a forklift requires a national High Risk Work Licence (class LF for a counterbalance forklift, class LO for an order picker), which this course does not provide.
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Confined Spaces Awareness
$49 per person
$39.00
Prices are in Australian dollars and include GST.
Duration
~35 minutes
Format
100% online, self-paced
Lessons
6
Assessment
10 questions (80% to pass)
Certificate
Instant, verifiable
Access period
6 months access from the day of course start
Who it’s for
Warehouse, storeroom and distribution-centre workers, pickers and packers, receiving and dispatch staff, retail stockroom teams and their supervisors.
Level
Beginner
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