Year 10

Work Placement
Induction Handbook
Work Placement: Monday 16th – Friday 27th June

Student Name: Jesuorobo David

House: Joseph
Tutor: Mr. Varghese
Age at placement: 14

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Contents
Day 1: Monday 3 February 2025, pages 1 – 8
 Introduction to Work Placement
 General Health and Safety Certificate
 Bullying, Sexual Harassment & Grooming Behaviour
Day 2: Tuesday 25 February 2025, pages 9 – 11
 Industry Specific Health and Safety Certificate
 Preparing for Work Placement

Instructions
Staff will go through this Booklet with students. There are sections that require reading and
discussing as a group. There are also questions and tests to be completed. It is important
you understand this material well. The topics contained in this booklet require a mature and
considered approach.
Completing these tasks and electronic submission of this booklet to Simon is a
requirement all students must do prior to being permitted to commence placement.

Due: Friday 23rd May 2025

Work Placement Contacts

Mrs Elly Martin – Work Experience Coordinator [email protected]
Mr Ben Gaze – Structured Workplace Learning (for student doing VET) [email protected]

Should students have questions about the Work Placement program, please feel free to
email Mrs Elly Martin in the first instance.

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Day 1:
Introduction to Work Placement
As a class:
1. Watch video – Introduction to Workplace Learning Video
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/teachingresources/careers/work/Pages/teachers.aspx
2. Read through p.3 & 4

Individually students should:

3. Ensure they download and save a copy of this document
4. Add their name, House, Tutor and age as of June 2025 to the front page
5. Highlight whether they are a Work Experience Student or Structured Workplace Learning
(SWL) Student
6. Highlight one likely benefit relevant to them from completing work placement
7. Highlight the Step in the Work Placement process which they are up to
8. Record the date of Work Placement in their Student Planner as well as the due date for all
tasks and forms

What is Work Placement?

Year 10 Work Placement Program involves the short term placement of MSCW students with employers to
provide insights into the industry and the workplace in which they are located. It provides students with the
valuable opportunity to:
 Develop employability skills
 Explore possible career and pathway options
 Understand employer expectations, and
 Increase their self-understanding, maturity, independence and self-confidence.

Work Experience – students are placed with employers primarily to observe and learn – not to undertake
activities which require extensive training or expertise.
Work Experience Students are not allowed to use any power tools, machinery or equipment under any
circumstances. You are there to observe and learn.

Structured Workplace Learning – is for students currently enrolled in a VET (TAFE) program providing an
opportunity for hands-on application of industry-relevant VET skills and competencies.

Benefits of Work Placement

Work placement contributes to better informed careers, course and pathways options for young people.

Benefits for students

 Better understanding of the work environment and what employers expect of their workers.
 An opportunity to explore possible career options.
 Increased self-understanding, maturity, independence and self-confidence.
 Increased motivation to continue study and/or undertake further training.
 Better understanding of how the school curriculum can help prepare young people for work.
 An introduction to workplace recruitment practices.
 Enhanced opportunities for part-time and casual employment.
 Opportunity to include the employer’s work placement evaluation in future job and course applications.
 Opportunity to develop work-related competencies and acquire skills.
 The chance to ‘try out’ a workplace, prior to undertaking VCE, VM, VET, or an SBAT in Years 10 to12.

Benefits for employers

 Opportunity to make a positive contribution to the education and development of students.
 Opportunity to contribute to the development of students’ workplace skills.

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 Opportunity to assist young people in their career decision-making.
 Dialogue with teachers on aspects of work readiness and other matters related to work.
 Opportunity to build an ongoing relationship with a student that may progress when the student
undertakes a VCE, VM or VET in Schools program, or working with the employer’s organisation.
 Building industry/school partnerships that provide for local community needs and endeavours.

Work Placement Process at MSCW

The Work Placement program is scheduled for Monday 16th – Friday 27th June 2025

It is compulsory.

To summarise the Work Placement process, students:

• Step 1: Collect the appropriate Work Placement forms – spares available from Careers Office, Jericho
10. Generally, students completing placement in the same industry as their VET/TAFE on Wednesday
need to use an SWL Form and all other students will use the Work Experience Form.
• Step 2: ASAP find a host employer/business – lists available on Simon > Year 10 Careers.
• Step 3: Complete Student Details, Work Placement Details (especially contact email), Employer
Acknowledgement, Student Agreement and Parent Agreement/Consent Sections of the Work
Placement Arrangement forms.
• Step 4: Complete Work Placement Travel and Accommodation form. Please note: You only need to
complete the accommodation section on the reverse of the form if you are staying away from home
whilst on work placement.
• Step 5: Complete the Induction Handbook including Safe@Work General and Industry Specific
Certificates (Learning time will be provided for this to be completed at school on Mon 3rd February and
Tuesday 25th February).
Please note that all Year 10 students will be required to upload a copy of their Safe@Work General
Certificate, Safe@Work Industry Certificate and Induction Handbook to their Year 10 Careers subject
on Simon.
• Step 6: Once the above steps are completed, return forms (from Steps 3 and 4) to the Careers Office,
Jericho 10.
Please note: If you are planning to complete placement with animals, you will also need to collect,
complete and attach the Additional Working with Animals Form as part of this step. Those wanting to
work in Construction will need to have obtained and provide a copy of your CIC (White Card).
• Step 7: If your placement is approved (by Careers staff and Ms Harkin) you and your employer will be
sent an email containing a copy of your completed Forms and an Employer Pack.

Placement forms (and the above steps) must be completed no later than Friday 23rd May 2025.
A copy of the Presentation, this Induction Handbook and other handy resources like forms, past employers,
email script, will be available on Simon/PAM in Year 10 Careers (Class Resources).
Other helpful websites relating to work experience are: Work Placements Portal and Study Work Grow Work
Experience Database

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Health and Safety
As a class:
1. Watch video – Common Workplace Hazards
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/teachingresources/careers/work/Pages/teachers.aspx
2. Read through p.5 & 6

Individually students should:

3. Highlight one workplace hazard which they could be exposed to
4. Identify if they will need to obtain a White Card or Working with Animals Form, and if so,
highlight this section on p.6
5. Access the Safe@Work General Module Website and review the summary of sections on the
right-hand side. Keep this open for reference, to help with your next task.
6. Access the Safe@Work Self Assessment Website, read the instructions and START QUIZ. You
will need to put your details in and click on Begin Test

7. Important: Once completed and you receive a Certificate, click on the Save/Export icon then
select ‘Acrobat (PDF) file’ from the Export drop down menu. The downloaded file should
then be saved and placed on Simon > Year 10 Careers > Class Tasks > WE/SWL Safe at Work
General Module Assessment Certificate.

Prohibited Activities
Students are prohibited from engaging in activities:
 where there is an unacceptable risk to their health, moral or material welfare, safety or wellbeing, or
 which require extensive training or experience to perform safely.
Students are prohibited from engaging in the following activities on this basis.
NOTE: This is not an exhaustive list.
ACTIVITIES Students under 15 Students aged 15
years of age years and over
Administering medical treatments
Bathing patients
Discussing the condition of patients
Dispensing and/or administering medication
Door-to-door selling
Handling or using explosives
Holding or transporting cash and negotiable items – such as cash, cards,
stamps or cheques – with a value exceeding $100.
Holding keys, codes or ciphers except those required to operate standard
office machines and other permitted equipment
Work experience on a building or construction site (whether commercial or
residential) at any time before the buildings on the site are at lock up stage

Dangerous Plant and Equipment

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Students must not use plant or equipment that pose an unacceptable risk to their health or safety, or which
require extensive training or experience to use safely.
Students are not permitted to drive any vehicle or mobile plant while on work experience – this includes
tractors, forklifts, all-terrain vehicles, ride-on mowers, bulldozers, excavators and skidders.

Workplace Hazards
Students must not be exposed to workplace hazards that could harm their health or safety.
Students must not be exposed to the following hazards:
 Biological/medical hazards (such as exposure to needle sticks from syringes or other ‘sharps’,
blood or other body fluids, Legionella bacteria)
 Bullying, occupational violence, work-related stress, sexual harassment and discrimination
 Confined spaces 1

 Debris (for example, waste material generated by milling or grinding operations)

 Electrical hazards associated with faulty, unsuitable or inappropriately placed leads, electrically
powered plant or equipment, contact with live underground or overhead cables
 Excessive noise
 Exposure to asbestos fibres in areas where damaged and/or friable Asbestos Containing 2

Materials are known to be present

 Exposure to occupational sources of ionising radiation (such as x-ray machines)
 Exposure to non-ionising radiation hazards (associated with devices such as UV sterilising
equipment and laser devices)
 Exposure to high pressure liquids or gases (associated with gas cylinders, compressed air tools,
boilers and pressure piping)
 Exposure to hazardous substances and dangerous goods
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 Extremes of heat or cold that could result in physical harm through illness or impaired
performance
 Falling objects (such as objects falling from platforms, loads slung from cranes)
 Falls from, or collisions with, fork-lifts or mobile plant
 Falls from heights
 Hazardous manual handling involving the application of repetitive, sustained and/or high force,
awkward postures or movements, exposure to sustained vibration, manual handling of people or
animals, manual handling of unstable loads that are difficult to grasp or hold
 Impalement hazards, such as protruding angle iron
 Plant hazards including moving machinery or equipment, unguarded machinery where clothing,
hair, limbs or fingers could be get caught, cut or crushed
 Trenching and excavation operations, including digging of post holes

Construction Industry Placements

Students considering placement within the construction industry will require a White Card. If you are not
currently enrolled in a VET program where this has been/is to be completed, you should see Mrs Martin ASAP
for further details.

Placements with contact with animals

Students considering placement which is likely to involve contact with animals should see Mrs Martin for a
Working With Animal Form and further details.

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Confined space – means a space in any vat, tank, pit, pipe, duct, flue, oven, chimney, silo, reaction vessel, container, receptacle, underground sewer or well,
or any shaft, trench or tunnel or other similar enclosed or partially enclosed structure, which meet certain conditions specified in the Occupational Health and
Safety Regulations 2007 (refer to http://www.worksafe.vic.gov.au/forms-and-publications/forms-and-publications/confined-spaces-compliance-code)
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Friable asbestos – means when dry, may be crumbled, pulverised or reduced to powder by hand pressure.
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Hazardous substances are classified on the basis of health effects, both immediate and long-term. For example, they include chemicals,
flammable liquids or gases which can cause cancer, skin disease, poisoning or respiratory illness. They are regulated by the Occupational
Health and Safety Regulations 2007.
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Dangerous goods can have immediate physical or chemical effects – such as fire, explosion, corrosion and poisoning – on property, the
environment or people. They are regulated by the Dangerous Goods (Storage and Handling) Regulations 2012.
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Bullying, Sexual Harassment & Grooming
As a class:
1. Watch video – Bullying and Sexual Harassment
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/teachingresources/careers/work/Pages/teachers.aspx
2. Read through p.7 & 8

Individually students should:

3. Using a different colour each time, highlight the answer to the following questions in the
information on p.6&7:
a. Define bullying.
Bullying is repeated, intentional behavior that is intended to hurt, intimidate, or humiliate
another person. It can involve verbal, physical, or psychological actions that create a hostile
environment for the victim.
b. How can bullying and harassment occur in a workplace? Highlight one example.

Bullying and harassment can occur in the workplace through various behaviours such as verbal
abuse, spreading rumours, unfair treatment, or inappropriate comments. For example, a colleague
repeatedly criticizing your work in front of others to undermine your confidence constitutes
workplace bullying.

c. Define grooming.

Grooming is the process by which an individual builds an emotional connection with

someone to manipulate, exploit, or abuse them, often with the intent of sexual abuse or
exploitation. It typically involves establishing trust and sometimes secrecy to facilitate harmful
actions.

d. What is one thing you can do if you feel you are being bullied, sexually harassed or
groomed whilst on Work placement?

If you feel you are being bullied, sexually harassed, or groomed during a work placement, one
important step is to report your concerns to a trusted supervisor, manager, or the designated
safeguarding or HR personnel within your organization. Seeking support and documenting incidents
can also help address the situation effectively.

Who?
Harassment and bullying are acts connected to the abuse of power: the less power a person has in a
workplace, the more likely the chance of harassment. A work experience student is often the least powerful
person in a workplace and therefore could be highly vulnerable.

Forms of harassment, bullying and occupational violence

Harassment (including sexual harassment) can take many different forms. It can be physical or verbal abuse,
requests for sexual favours or assault. It can be behaviour which offends, humiliates or intimidates the victim.
Forms of harassment include (but are not limited to) sexual innuendo, comments about looks or body parts,
asking for dates, enquiries into a person’s sexual activities, displays of pornography or material of a sexual
nature, posters, magazines, photographs or screen savers on computers.

Bullying is generally defined as repeated unreasonable behaviour directed toward an employee (or group of
employees) and creating a risk to their health and safety.
Bullying or harassment can take the form of assigning inappropriate duties, name calling, threatening
behaviour, shouting or general intimidation such as exclusion or isolation.
Occupational violence is generally defined as any incident where a person is physically attacked or threatened
in the workplace. Occupational violence can include the physical acts of pushing, hitting, slapping or grabbing
of clothing.
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How does harassment and bullying occur?
A student may be harassed or bullied in a number of ways: by a manager or supervisor, by other employees, by
contractors, by customers – or in cases where more than one student is employed, by other students (though
the incidence of work experience students harassing other workers is quite rare). The school and the employer
are responsible for taking all reasonable steps to protect work experience students from harassment.
The most common form of harassment is male to female sexual harassment, but this is not the only kind.
Sexual harassment can also take place male to male, female to male and female to female.

Handling incidences of harassment, bullying or occupational violence

Strategies that students may use in response to incidences of harassment, bullying or occupational violence
include:
 expressing dislike of their treatment to their harasser(s);
 reporting their treatment to other people at the workplace – co-workers, supervisors or managers;
 reporting their treatment to parents/family;
 reporting their treatment to their Work Experience Coordinator, Principal, or other relevant school
staff; and
 in matters of sexual harassment, making a complaint under the Equal Opportunity Act 1995.

Grooming
Grooming is when a person engages in predatory conduct to prepare you (or someone you know), for sexual
activity at a later time. Grooming can include communicating and/or attempting to befriend or establish a
relationship or other emotional connection with you or your parent/carer.
Everyone has the right to feel safe and protected from abuse and every relationship should be respectful.
People who target and groom children and young people are very deceptive and manipulative in the way they
get control over you. It is never your fault and you don’t have to deal with the abuse alone. You should always
seek help from a trusted adult if you recognise any of these signs in your relationship.

If at any time you are feeling vulnerable or bullied, you must say something. Speaking with an appropriate
person at the workplace is appropriate. All incidents must be reported to Mrs Martin and/or Mr Gaze.

End of Day 1 Learning Tasks

Please ensure you have saved your work today, including this Induction
Booklet and your Safe@Work General Certificate
Please also ensure your placement is sorted for our next session on 25 Feb.
It would be handy to have your work placement forms or the name of the
organisation and your supervisor for this session.

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Day 2
Preparing for Work Experience
Every workplace is different, so it is very important that you are fully aware of what is required of
you when you undertake your work placement.

As a class:
1. Watch video – Preparing for Work Placement
http://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/teachingresources/careers/work/Pages/teachers.aspx

Individually students should:

2. Answer the following questions, refer to your work placement forms if you have them
handy. Do this section twice if you have organised two placements. Come back to this
section if you have not finalised/sorted your placement yet.
a. Organisation/business you will be working at: West Gippsland Hospital
b. Address of organisation/business: 41 Landsborough St, Warragul VIC
c. Your nominated supervisor is: Jane Comben
d. Dates of your placement: 16 June 2025
e. Time are you expected to start and finish: 4 days
f. How do you plan to get there? Car
g. Will you be working indoors or outside? Indoors
h. Will you need to take anything (food, drink, overalls, hat, sunglasses, work boots,
etc) with you to work? Yes I do
i. What dress code is expected (office attire, smart casual, closed-toe shoes, high vis
work wear, work boots, industry specific work wear like scrubs, no
jewellery/nailpolish, etc)? , Smart Casual
3. Using the list on p. 10 & 11, highlight the most relevant Industry Module Assessment for
your type of work. Please note that if you change your type of work/workplace or have two
very different types or work/workplaces, you may need to redo the following to ensure your
Industry Module Certificate is relevant for your workplace/s.
4. Access the Safe@Work Industry Module Website and review the most relevant Industry
Module. Keep this open for reference, to help with your next task.
5. In a new tab, access the Safe@Work Self Assessment Website, read the instructions and
START QUIZ. You will need to put your details in, change the drop down arrow to the most
relevant Industry Module and click on Begin Test

6. Important: Once completed and you receive a Certificate, click on the Save/Export icon then
select ‘Acrobat (PDF) file’ from the Export drop down menu. The downloaded file should
then be saved and placed on Simon > Year 10 Careers > Class Tasks > WE/SWL Safe at Work
Industry Module Assessment Certificate.

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Which safe@work Industry Module should I do?
The following is a guide, but the type of work should be considered when determining the most relevant
Industry Module Assessments:

 Automotive
 Building and Construction
 Electrical
 Hairdressing
 Health and Community Services
 Horticulture
 Hospitality
 Manufacturing
 Metals and Engineering
 Office and Business Services
 Painting
 Plumbing
 Primary Industry
 Retail
 Veterinary

Type of work placement Suggested safe@work Industry Module

Accountant/Bank/Finance/Law Office and Business Services
Aged Care Health and Community Services
Architect Office and Business Services
Beauty Services Health and Community Services
Boilermaker/Fitter/Metal Fabrication Metals and Engineering
Builder/Carpenter/Cabinet maker Building and Construction
Café/Fast Food Outlet/Hotel/Motel/Restaurant Hospitality
Childcare Centre Health and Community Services
Dressmaker Manufacturing
Designer/Drafting/Engineering Office and Business Services
Electrician Electrical and Electronics
Farm Primary Industry
Gym Health and Community Services
Hairdressing Hairdressing
Health/Hospital/Physio/Speech/Occupational Therapist Health and Community Services
Journalist Office and Business Services
Laboratory Health and Community Services
Landscaping/Gardening Horticulture
Motor repair Automotive
Newsagent Retail
Painter Painting
Photographer Office and Business Services
Plant nursery Horticulture
Plasterer Painting
Plumber Plumbing
Police station Office and Business Services
Post Office Office and Business Services
Real estate agency Office and Business Services
Retail Shop (selling products or services to customers) Retail
School Office and Business Services
Sign writer Manufacturing
Supermarket Retail

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Swimming pool Health and Community Services
Tiler Building and Construction
Travel agent Office and Business Services
Vet clinic Veterinary

End of Day 2 Learning Tasks

Please ensure you have saved your work today, including this Induction
Booklet and your Safe@Work Industry Module Certificate

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