Structured Workplace Learning

Prohibited or restricted industries or businesses and activities

Students must not be placed in industries or businesses that pose an unacceptable risk to their health, moral or material welfare, safety or wellbeing. Structured workplace learning in the following industries or businesses is prohibited or restricted on this basis.

Note: This is not an exhaustive list.

Prohibited or restricted industries and businesses

• abattoirs (see Note 1)
• any business where firearms and/or ammunition are manufactured, repaired or sold
• equine industry (see Note 2)
• fishing vessels (see Note 1)
• funeral homes (see Note 1)
• gaming
• mining, quarrying, extraction, recycling plants, foundries and tips (see Note 3)
• morgues
• prisons, correctional or remand centres, or immigration centres
• recreational vessels
• security industry
• sex industry
• tattoo shops
• trading vessels (see Note 4)
• transmission and distribution industries (linework and/or cabling) (see Note 1)

Note 1: Students may undertake structured workplace learning in these industries only if they are completing a relevant Vocational Education and Training (VET) qualification and the structured workplace learning will allow them to obtain or further develop the skills and knowledge outlined in a relevant unit of competency within the qualification. Employers must provide students with an appropriate health and safety induction and any activities must be carried out under direct supervision.

Note 2: Where students are not completing a relevant VET qualification, they may only undertake structured workplace learning in this industry in line with the Department’s guidelines for work experience with animals and they are not permitted to undertake riding activities.

Note 3: Students may only undertake office duties above ground in these industries.

Note 4: Where students are not completing a relevant VET qualification they may only assist on trading vessels used for passenger ferry services or charter activities and operating on inland or enclosed waters.

Prohibited or restricted 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 or restricted from engaging in the following activities on this basis:

Note: this is not an exhaustive list

• administering medical treatments (see Note 1)
• bathing patients (see Note 1)
• discussing the condition of patients (see Note 1)
• dispensing and administering medication (see Note 1)
• door-to-door selling (selling any goods or services at a private or commercial residence (including making a contact sales agreement within the meaning of the Fair Trading Act 1999)
• handling or using explosives
• holding or transporting cash and negotiable items — such as cash, cards stamps or cheques — with a value exceeding $100. (This excludes the student’s personal items)
• holding keys, codes or ciphers except those required to operate standard office machines and other permitted equipment

Note 1: Students may undertake these activities only if they are completing a relevant VET qualification and the structured workplace learning will allow them to obtain the skills and knowledge outlined in a relevant unit of competency within the qualification. Employers must provide students with an appropriate health and safety induction and any activities must be carried out under direct supervision.