Duty of care for managers

Duration: 24 minutes

Overview: This course is about work health and safety (WHS) responsibilities and how they apply to managers and supervisors. We examine your responsibilities to WHS, including daily, weekly and monthly tasks. We also look at how you can fulfil some of your key duty of care responsibilities as a manager or supervisor in the workplace.

Why is this course important? This course is important because your duty of care responsibilities are essential to ensuring the health and safety of everyone at your workplace, ensuring that you fulfil your employment, social and ethical responsibilities, maintaining organisational morale and avoiding reputational damage and costly litigation.

Suitable for: Managers, supervisors and senior managers. 

Note: It is recommended that the Duty of care for employees course is completed first.

Online Assessment: Yes

Workplace Activities: None

Disclaimer: The scope of this course is based on a general outline of duty of care for managers, supervisors and senior managers. The information is intended only to provide a summary and general overview on the matters of interest, as at the time it was prepared. This course is not intended to be comprehensive, does not constitute legal advice and should be considered together with any relevant employment agreements, and workplace policies or codes of conduct. In the event of discrepancy between this course and your workplace policies, your workplace policies should be applied. OmniaCapture is not responsible for you or anyone else for any loss suffered in connection with the use of this information. You should seek legal or other professional advice before acting or relying on any of the information contained in this course.