Covering the unit of competency: FPICOT2205A Follow OHS policies and procedures
Introduction
Working safely covers the basic principles of occupational health and safety for timber workers.
The unit is presented in two sections:
- Following procedures
- Hazards and emergencies.
Tasks
Each section in the unit has a Task for completion. Its purpose is to provide an activity that tests the learner's understanding of the principles, and their ability to apply these principles to their own day-to-day job. The Tasks are suitable for use as assessment activities, and may be either emailed to the trainer or submitted in hard copy as assessment evidence.
The Task for Following procedures asks the learner to identify the meaning of a series of workplace safety signs and describe their typical locations.
The Task for Hazards and emergencies asks the learner to carry out a workplace inspection and complete a checklist to identify any hazards.
Learning activities
Each section contains three Lessons, which provide the content information for the subject. Each lesson has a Learning activity, designed to reinforce the concepts presented and allow the learner to apply them to their own workplace situation. For learners who are undertaking group training, or have access to learners in other locations, these activities also provide the opportunity for them to share their thoughts and discuss the similarities and differences in their experiences.
The learning activities are set out below.
Section 1: Following procedures
| Lesson | Description of learning activity |
|---|---|
| Rights and responsibilities | Asks the learner to describe how they would go about raising a safety concern with management. |
| Safe operating procedures | Provides a series of questions about an SOP that the learner needs to follow in their day-to-day work. |
| Wearing PPE | Asks the learner to identify the items of PPE that they wear at work and think about the reasons why each item is necessary. |
Section 2: Hazards and emergencies
| Lesson | Description of learning activity |
|---|---|
| Workplace hazards | Asks the learner to describe the process of reporting a hazard in their own workplace. |
| Manual handling | Provides a questionnaire on the risk factors involved in manual handling injuries. |
| Emergencies | Checks the learner's knowledge of their own worksite's evacuation procedure. |
Employability skills
Below are the employability skills and learning and assessment strategies applicable to this unit.
- Communication
- Working in groups, either face-to-face or via a social networking site
- Communicating with and responding to other learners
- Teamwork
- Group discussion, either face-to-face or electronically
- Working in a team
- Interactive activities
- Problem Solving
- Case studies
- Researching
- Decision making activities
- Initiative and enterprise
- Research
- Suggesting changes and improvements
- Planning and organising
- Planning
- Collecting and analysing information
- Self management
- Work plans
- Learning
- Using skills in different contexts
- Self-evaluation tool
- Technology
- Using the internet
- Using ICT skills to complete activities and communicate with others
Communication activities
It is envisaged that most learners will be undertaking a qualification via flexible delivery mode, and will be working independently through the learning material in this Toolbox in between scheduled site visits by their trainer/assessor. Where learners in different locations are undertaking the same units of competency with a Registered Training Organisations (RTO), the trainer may decide to put them in contact with each other via email, and to hold regular web-based group training sessions.
The learning activities are designed to promote discussion between learners and their trainer, either in a face-to-face group session, or via a range of electronic means, including telephone hook-ups, group emails or a social networking site.
Assessment suggestions
Each section contains a Task, which is designed to provide some of the evidence required for an RTO to assess a learner as competent in the unit being undertaken. Other evidence that would need to be gathered by the RTO would include evidence of practical skills through observation and questioning and/or a third party report from the learner's supervisor. Trainers may also wish to use the completed learning activities and the discussions generated between learners as further evidence of competence.
For candidates who believe they may be eligible for recognition of prior learning (RPL) assessment, the RPL Expressway provides detailed information on the specific performance criteria that apply to the unit, and the types of evidence they would need to present to the RTO. The RPL Expressway is also useful for learners who are self-assessing their progress and identifying any gaps in their current level of skills and knowledge.
Related resources
All resources needed to complete activities are provided within the site, with the exception of external sources of information that the learner may consult while carrying out their own research. Internally linked resources include a range of PDF and Word documents. Website links are also provided for learners to follow up if they wish to research a topic more thoroughly.
Unit of competency
The Unit of Competency relating to this Toolbox unit is linked below.
For more information about the Competency, please go to the National Training Information Service (NTIS) website to see the Forest and Forest Products Training Package (FPI05).
FPI05 Training Package (NTIS website)