About Accelerated Training

The First Aid Course (HLTAID011) provides students with the skills and knowledge to confidently perform first aid techniques for a range of injuries and illnesses in accordance with the Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) Guidelines.

WHS General Induction for Construction is also known as White Card Training.

Current Work Health and Safety (WHS) Legislation requires all employees that either work in the construction industry or enter any building or construction-site are to be trained in WHS in the workplace.

Upon successful completion of the course you will be issued with a SafeWork NSW ‘Statement of Training’ certificate, which allows you to work in the construction industry immediately. Within a period of four weeks following face-to-face training and assessment, SafeWork NSW will send you a NSW ‘Whitecard’ physical card.

This course teaches the skills and knowledge required to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in line with the Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) Guidelines.

This unit of competency describes the skills and knowledge required to provide a first aid response to infants, children and adults.

The unit applies to educators and support staff working within an education and care setting who are required to respond to a first aid emergency, including asthmatic and anaphylactic emergencies. This unit of competency will contribute towards approved first aid, asthma and anaphylaxis training under the Education and Care Services National Law, and the Education and Care Services National Regulation (2011).

This unit of competency has been approved by ACECQA and meets the requirements of “First Aid, Asthma and Anaphylaxis”.

The Traffic Controller course is designed to prepare you with the skills and knowledge to work safely and effectively in the traffic management industry. It applies to those who would like to work in live traffic environments in a supervisory or operational role in NSW to control traffic with a stop-slow bat and portable traffic control devices.

The Traffic Management Implementer course is designed to prepare you with the skills and knowledge to work safely and effectively in the traffic management industry. It applies to those who would like to work in live traffic environments in a supervisory or operational role in NSW to set up and pack up a traffic control worksite with signs and devices.

This unit describes a participant’s skills and knowledge required to operate a light vehicle in the resources and infrastructure industry.

This unit is appropriate for those working in operational roles.

This unit of competency covers the skills and knowledge required to operate and maintain breathing apparatus and equipment in an irrespirable atmosphere, as defined by the Australian Standard AS/NZS 1715:2009 Selection, use and maintenance of respiratory protective equipment.

This unit of competency applies to operators who are required to wear breathing apparatus when they are working.

Operators may also be required to wear breathing apparatus in emergency situations, however, this is not the prime focus of this unit.

Under the Work Health and Safety Regulations, a ‘confined space’ means an enclosed or partially enclosed space.

Employers have a duty of care to ensure all workers are safe whilst in/ and around a confined space. This means that the employer must manage those risks around confined space work which includes the training and supervision of those working in/ or around a confined space.

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to enter and work in confined spaces.

The Low Voltage Rescue (LVR) component teaches participants how to rescue a person that has been using low voltage equipment through the use of a Low Voltage Rescue Kit. Low voltage is defined as less than 1000Vac.

This unit is designed to provide knowledge and practical experience in gas testing atmospheres.

This unit of competency covers the skills and knowledge required to test the working atmosphere, using electronic test apparatus, to find out if it is safe for the proposed work.

It applies to situations where an individual may be required to carry out gas testing of an atmosphere prior to entering a specific area or workspace. The competency requires the person to interpret readings and take actions based on the interpretation.

Working environment may be hazardous, unpredictable, subject to time pressure, chaotic and expose responders to risk, on land or water, by day or night. Workplace atmospheres may include visible and invisible hazards and hazardous surfaces.

The Prepare Work Zone TMP course is designed to prepare you with the skills and knowledge to perform risk assessments of a temporary traffic management site and selecting, applying, designing and modifying traffic management plans and traffic guidance schemes. It applied to those working in management roles who have some responsibility for the outcomes of others.

This unit of competency covers the skills and knowledge required to conduct a hazard analysis.

It is not intended to apply to simpler routine hazard checks, such as ‘Take 5’, Step Back 5×5’, five step or similar.

This might be done as an independent activity in order to identify hazards and the appropriate hazard controls, or it might be done as part of a broader process, such as identifying and applying for the permits required for a job.

The conducting of a hazard analysis may be required under a safety case, by organisation procedures or simply as being good practice.

This unit involves the skills and knowledge required to conduct in-service safety testing of electrical cord connected equipment and cord assemblies.

It includes working safely, using portable appliance tester (PAT), identifying faults, applying tagging, arranging for repair of faulty equipment and complete testing documentation.

This unit of competency covers the skills and knowledge required to issue work permits. It covers an understanding of the permit system and the limitations of each permit, and making decisions regarding the need for and correct use of each permit. This unit includes the issue of any and all permits. Permits are called ‘clearances’ by some organisations.

This unit of competency applies to personnel who are required to issue appropriate permits to work to persons conducting a variety of activities in workplace environments in which hazards exist or specific procedures need to be followed and monitored to protect the safety of personnel and the integrity of plant or process.

This course is suitable for workers in resource and infrastructure industries construction and any tradespeople who are required to work at height.

This Course covers all aspects of safe access to heights legislative requirements the selection, use and maintenance of Personal Protective Equipment. There is both a theory and a practical component to this course.

This unit of competency involves the skills and knowledge required to undertake rescues in confined spaces as a member of a single organisation or team involving multiple organisations.

A confined space is determined by the hazards associated with a set of specific circumstances and not just because work is performed in a small space. A confined space means an enclosed or partially enclosed space.

The unit is applicable to a range of confined space rescue situations undertaken by personnel from the emergency services, volunteer organisations and/or organisations where confined space work is performed. Permits may be required to perform work in a confined space in various jurisdictions.

This unit specifies the mandatory requirements of work health and safety and how they apply to the various electrotechnology work functions. It encompasses responsibilities for health and safety, risk management processes at all operative levels and adherence to safety practices as part of the normal way of doing work.

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to operate a truck or trailer mounted attenuator when carrying out traffic management activities in civil construction. It includes planning and preparing, using radio communication, operating and positioning truck or trailer mounted attenuator, using traffic controls, and cleaning up.

This unit is appropriate for those working in assistant roles.

This unit describes a participant’s skills and knowledge required to work safely as a safety observer/spotter in the civil construction industry.

This unit is appropriate for those working in operational roles.

This unit of competency covers the skills and knowledge required to work in accordance with an issued permit. It aims to ensure that people working under a permit to work understand the system, know the limitations of the permit under which they are working and comply with all the requirements of the permit.

The people to whom this unit applies may be called ‘permit recipients’ or ‘permit holders’ by some organisations. Some organisations call ‘permits’ ‘clearances.

This unit of competency applies to persons who are required to conduct work activities under the authority of an issued permit to work and within the context and requirements of that permit. This typically applies to all work done by maintenance staff and contractors and also to any other non-process work performed on the plant.

This course will provide the participant with the necessary skills and technical knowledge to safely work near overhead power lines as a non-electrical worker.

The participant will also learn compliance with safe approach distances for the worker, plant, tools and equipment.

This Competency Standard Unit covers the provision of first aid in an Electricity Supply Industry (ESI) environment. It includes the recognition and provision of an initial response where first aid is required in emergency situations by providing essential first aid using basic life support measures according to established workplace first aid policies and procedures.