WHS Risk REGISTER

The CWTS WHS Risk Register is a fully editable, rebrand-ready register aligned to the Standards for RTOs 2025. Designed for RTO managers, compliance officers, and WHS representatives responsible for identifying and managing workplace health and safety risks across all training environments your RTO uses, it provides a structured framework for systematically documenting hazards, assessing the likelihood and consequence of harm, recording the control measures in place, and monitoring the effectiveness of those controls on an ongoing basis.
 
Risk identification and control is the operational core of your WHS management system. The Work Health and Safety Act 2011 requires your RTO to eliminate risks to health and safety so far as is reasonably practicable, and where elimination is not possible, to minimise those risks through a hierarchy of controls. That obligation cannot be met through informal hazard awareness or undocumented control measures. A structured risk register that captures every identified hazard across your training environments, assesses the residual risk after controls are applied, and records the review schedule for each risk gives your RTO the documented evidence it needs to demonstrate active WHS management to both regulators and your duty of care obligations to students and staff.
 
This register provides a consistent, auditable framework for WHS risk identification, assessment, and control management across all operational contexts and training environments your RTO uses. It aligns to clause 1.8 of the Standards for RTOs 2025 and was developed in conjunction with the Work Health and Safety Policy Procedure and the WHS Management Plan. It includes the following:
 
Hazard identification and description fields covering all training environments and delivery contexts
Risk source and affected persons classification section
Likelihood and consequence rating fields producing an overall risk priority classification
Current control measures and hierarchy of controls documentation section
Residual risk rating fields following control implementation
Review schedule, responsible person, and risk status update fields for audit trail purposes
 
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