AHCWHS401 - Maintain work health and safety processes

This unit of competency describes the skills and knowledge required to facilitate meetings and document actions that relate to the consideration of work health and safety issues in the workplace. This unit is applicable to nominated work health and safety representatives in a workplace.All work must be carried out to comply with workplace and legislative requirements.This unit applies to individuals who take responsibility for their own work. They provide and communicate solutions to a range of predictable and unpredictable problems.NOTE: The terms 'occupational health and safety' (OHS) and 'work health and safety' (WHS) and occupational safety and health (OSH) are equivalent and generally either can be used in the workplace. In jurisdictions where the Model WHS Legislation has not been implemented RTOs are advised to contextualise the unit of competency by referring to the existing State and Territory OHS legislative requirements.No occupational licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.