Session 7.02
Tracks
Track 2
| Friday, June 14, 2024 |
| 1:55 PM - 2:55 PM |
| Boulevard room B2 |
Overview
WHS in Design & Technology learning spaces
Speaker
Mr Andrew Nicholls
Andrew Nicholls Design
WHS in Design & Technology learning spaces
Presentation description
WHS in Design and Technologies has a long history spanning back, at least in academic records, a century. From its origins in pre-war Industrial Arts, safety has long been aligned with best practice and common sense. However, somewhere along the way, we lost our focus. What was once reasonably foreseeable now needs to be argued, reasoned, justified and costed.
Join us on a journey of understanding of WHS laws, regulations, codes and standards as they apply to the design of Design and Technologies learning spaces. Discover how we have evolved from a dedicated Australian Standard for Workrooms in Educational Facilities to WHS laws with practices woven through numerous regulations and codes. Learn about the sections of the WHS legislation that can best improve your working conditions and classroom specifications. Discover how codes and Australian Standards and Building Specifications can provide information to illustration ergonomic requirements, lighting conditions, workshop spacing and work system design.
Participants will be encouraged to share their concerns and discuss possible solutions to improve their safety and that of their students.
Join us on a journey of understanding of WHS laws, regulations, codes and standards as they apply to the design of Design and Technologies learning spaces. Discover how we have evolved from a dedicated Australian Standard for Workrooms in Educational Facilities to WHS laws with practices woven through numerous regulations and codes. Learn about the sections of the WHS legislation that can best improve your working conditions and classroom specifications. Discover how codes and Australian Standards and Building Specifications can provide information to illustration ergonomic requirements, lighting conditions, workshop spacing and work system design.
Participants will be encouraged to share their concerns and discuss possible solutions to improve their safety and that of their students.
Biography
Andrew Nicholls is a highly experienced educator, designer and OHSEM specialist. Moving from a career in Industrial Design for Education, for the last nineteen years Andrew has educated students in a broad range of disciplines and subjects including Visual Arts, Technologies (Design and Digital), Humanities, and VET Building and Construction.
As an educational leader, he has provided professional development to others on a wide-range of topics including transdisciplinary learning, technical and freehand drawing, continual improvement in educational performance and WHS compliance in schools.
In 2017, while completing Master degrees in Education and Occupational Health, Safety, and Environmental Management, Andrew began receiving further requests to assist in the development of learning spaces and OHS compliance in schools. Drawing from his diverse design and professional working experience, Andrew now provides high level expert advice on WHS compliance, learning space design and educational leadership to schools, teacher associations and architects.
