Bushfire Safety for Workers (Online module)

It covers four key topics:

• Your Risk - learn about the risk
• Prepare - how to be prepared
• Drive - how to stay safe on the road
• Survive - how to survive and stay safe

Allow up to an hour to complete, including a short sign-in process.

You can access a certificate at the end of the session to verify completion. The learning module is not formally accredited or competency based, it is an awareness session only.

Watch Linda from the Royal Children's Hospital explain how completing the module changed how she prepares for the fire season.

Employers

It is an important OHS and duty of care (maintaining a safe workplace) activity to ensure that your staff know what do to if they are caught out in a bushfire, and how to stay safe. Under the OHS Act (2004) it is the duty of an employer to give employees ‘the necessary information, instruction, training or supervision to enable them to do their work in a way that is safe and without risks to health.’

CFA recommends anyone who works in high bushfire risk areas over summer completes this session and urges employers and employer groups to consider policies that make this mandatory in the workplace.