OHSC Skills Development - Training

See the list of Training Courses which have been designed to offer most Defence personnel the opportunity to benefit from some formal OHS training.

OHSC Branch is a member organisation of the Defence Learning Services Network (DSLN), Defence’s fourth Registered Training Organisation (RTO). Each of the three Services, Navy, Army and Air Force, has an RTO that specifically addresses military training. The DSLN is concerned with the provision, across the Defence Organisation, of non-military specific training.

In cooperation with the Department of Education, Science and Training and the Public Safety Industry Training Advisory Board (PSITAB), OHSC Branch is developing Defence-specific safety competencies and qualifications within the Public Safety Training Package . For more information on these developments, contact: ohsc.training@defence.gov.au.

The Safety Skills Development (SSD) section of OHSC Branch is currently involved in the identification of safety skills required, across the Defence community, in three main target groups:

1. Generic Safety Skills,
2. Specific Safety Roles, and
3. Specialist Safety Positions.

Each of the above target groups can be divided into different levels requiring differing skills requirements.

Generic Safety Skills
These are skills required of all Defence personnel and there will be a range of competencies depending on whether the person is a worker, supervisor, manager or higher executive. The development of the appropriate skills could, for example, be included into promotion training.

Specific Safety Roles
In this group there will be varying requirements depending on, for example, whether the safety role being performed is that of someone on the unit safety committee, a formation safety manager, a Group safety coordinator, a building warden or a Health and Safety Representative (HSR) appointed in accordance with the Act.

Specialist Safety Positions
This group will include such roles as Laser Safety Officers, Radiation Protection Officers and the control of Confined Space Entry.

The identification of these safety skills by OHSC Branch is in line with the recommendations of the Business Skilling Review and the Defence Committee determinations of 18 Sep 03 . This project is being carried out in consultation with the OHSC Training Advisory Group (TAG) and the Defence Business Training Centre

An OHSC Training Advisory Group (TAG) has been formed to guide whole-of-Defence OHSC training development. All major stakeholders are represented on the TAG

See the list of Training Courses which have been designed to offer most Defence personnel the opportunity to benefit from some formal OHS training .

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