Participate in workplace health and safety

About this qualification

HLTWHS001 covers participating in safe work practices to ensure your own health and safety and that of others. Like CHCDIV001, the register casts it wide: it “applies to all workers who require knowledge of workplace health and safety to carry out their own work, either under direct supervision or with some individual responsibility”.

64,210 enrolments in Queensland in 2025, across 897 providers.

It is the HLT-package counterpart to the construction industry's CPCCWHS2001 and the resources industry's RIIWHS201E. Same idea, different sector, different code — and they are not interchangeable. Employers name the one their training package uses.

Assessment requires current workplace WHS policies and procedures and PPE relevant to the job role, either in the workplace or in a realistic industry-validated simulation.

Roles it maps to

Who the register says this applies to.

Commonly held together

Each training package has its own entry-level WHS unit. This is the health and community services one.

1. Single unit · you are hereHLTWHS001 Participate in workplace health and safety
2. Single unit · the other universalCHCDIV001 Work with diverse people
3. Single unit · construction equivalentCPCCWHS2001 Apply WHS requirements in construction
4. Single unit · most sites want oneHLTAID011 Provide First Aid
5. Certificate III · where it leadsCHC33021 Individual Support
6. Certificate III · where it leadsHLT33115 Health Services Assistance