Reference no: EM133577626
Manage Work Health and Safety
Section 1: Establishing work health and safety practices
For this section you will need to develop your own set of hazard identification and risk assessment procedures. These must be relevant to your own work area and the duties you complete while you are on placement.
Complete the portfolio section below to provide evidence of the steps you took to complete this process.
At the end of this section there is a list of documents you will need to provide to support your portfolio entries.
Explain how you used your workplace's existing work health and safety policies and procedures to support your work.
Looking at your procedures and supporting documents, write down the areas that show how you aligned the procedures to your state or territory's work health and safety legislation, regulations and codes of practice/conduct and other relevant industry guidelines.
The email to your supervisor (assessor) seeking feedback and approval on your procedures (with your procedures attached)
You can write your email here or you can provide a screenshot of your email for evidence.
(Don't forget to attach your procedures)
What type of feedback did you receive from your supervisor and anyone else who reviewed your procedures?
Feedback/approval you received from your supervisor (assessor)
Make adjustments to your work accordingly should you receive feedback and suggested changes.
(Provide final copies of your own procedures and any supporting documents such as checklists, forms etc)
Section 2: Consultative activities
For this section you will need to document your consultative activities. These include the hazard inspection, your meeting with your supervisor and other colleague/s to discuss your findings, completing the risk assessment and action plan, and developing a record keeping procedure.
Complete the portfolio section below to provide evidence of the steps you took to complete this process.
At the end of this section there is a list of documents you will need to provide to support your portfolio entries.
Evaluate the usefulness of your hazard checklist. Did you need to add any further points on the checklist? Do you believe that your checklist was appropriate to your work area and job duties?
Explain how you went about consulting with your participants. How did you encourage them to put forth their ideas and suggestions, including any that were not identified on your hazard checklist?
What concerns or issues were raised by the attendees? How did you work together to decide whether these were important and/or relevant work health and safety concerns? How did you come to agreement on what issues were a priority?
Explain how your consultation with these people helped you to complete your risk assessment and action plan?
The hazard identification checklist you filled out for your work area/job duties
(You can provide a copy of your completed hazard identification checklist you filled out or you can attach here)
Develop a set of policies and procedures that addresses work health and safety record keeping. As part of this you will need to develop an incident and injury log.
Your procedures should include reference to notifiable incidents.
(Provide/write procedures here)
Provide information to your team.
Send an email to your consultation participants thanking them for their input in the consultation process.
Attach the following documents to your email:
• your completed action plan
• meeting minutes and notes from the meeting
• recording keeping policies and procedures and incident/injury log.
Inform the recipients that you will be monitoring work health and safety in the work area to ensure controls are implemented safely.
Section 3: Monitoring work health and safety
In this section, you will describe the activities you undertook to monitor work health and safety.
Complete the portfolio section below to provide evidence of the steps you took to complete this process.
List the types of documents you familiarised yourself with and analysed during the monitoring period. Explain why each was helpful.
During the monitoring period, how well do you believe staff adhered to safety procedures and risk controls? How well were the risks you identified controlled? How regularly did staff identify and report hazards? How often did consultation occur in the workplace?
Identify at least one area for improvement in the workplace that you believe needs to be added to your action plan to maintain health and safety. This might be in relation to staff attitudes towards work health and safety consultation and record keeping, the types of hazards that were/have been identified, etc.
Identify at least one barrier that could stop the workplace from maintaining good work health and safety processes and demonstrating compliant practices.
Section 4: Personal reflection
In this section, you will reflect on your own work.
Describe two things that you feel that you did particularly well when establishing and monitoring work health and safety practices.
Describe two things that you think you could do better next time. How will you apply this learning to your practice in future?
Add any other reflections you might have about your experiences in regards to this unit.
Written Questions
1. Answer the following questions about WHS legislation and regulations.
Who is the WHS regulating authority for your state or territory?
What WHS legislation and regulations are applicable to your state or territory?
What are the laws and regulations that have been implemented across all states and territories, with the exception of Victoria and Western Australia?
2. Define the term ‘duty holder' under WHS legislation and the primary duty of care of a PCBU under WHS legislation. Write 100-150 words for each.
3. Define the term ‘officer' under WHS legislation and the primary duty of care of an officer under WHS legislation. Write 100-150 words for each.
4. Identify four employer responsibilities in relation to the provision of a safe workplace. Write 100-150 words for each.
5. Identify four employee responsibilities in relation to the provision of a safe workplace.
6. Answer the following questions about notifiable incidents, applying your state or territory's legislation.
What is considered a notifiable incident?
When must notifiable incidents be reported?
How long must records be kept about notifiable incidents?
7. Explain the responsibilities of a workplace in your state or territory in regards to other types of WHS record keeping. Write 100-150 words for each.
8. Explain due diligence and provide an example in respect of WHS. Write 100-150 words for each.
9. Answer the following questions about WHS consultation.
Is WHS consultation a legal requirement?
What is the purpose of consultation?
What is the duty of a PCBU in regards to consultation?
What rights do workers have in regards to consultation?
Do workplaces have to maintain records of consultation?
10. Answer the following questions about hazardous manual tasks.
What document has been published by SafeWork Australia that provides information about hazardous manual tasks?
In your own words, define ‘hazardous manual tasks'.
What is a PCBU's duty of care in regards to hazardous manual tasks?
What is a PCBU's obligations in regards to training in hazardous manual tasks?
List two issues that should be addressed when determining control measures in the workplace.
11. The Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare provide a number of best practice recommendations. Answer the following questions.
When do the Guidelines recommend that hand hygiene be performed?
What are the statutory requirements regarding handling of sharps?
12. Identify the steps that can be taken to break the chain of infection to reduce the risk of COVID-19. Write 50-100 words for each.
13. Explain an employer's duty of care to customers/clients, visitors and employees in regards to COVID-19. Write 100-150 words for each.
14. Identify four hazards typical of your work environment (i.e. your preferred industry/job role). For each, list two minimisation strategies. Write 100-150 words for each.
15. Explain the role and responsibilities of health and safety representatives (HSRs). In your answer, also explain how they are appointed. Write 100-150 words for each.
16. Identify five types of records that need to be completed and maintained and that will assist in hazard identification and risk control.
17. Identify at least three requirements related to work health and safety that would be expected to be seen in a workplace's human resources policies and procedures.
18. Identify at least three requirements related to work health and safety that would be expected to be seen in a workplace's record keeping/records management policies and procedures.
19. List three types of information you would expect to see within a workplace health and safety management system.
20. Explain the concept and importance of good work design (also referred to as safety in design or safe design). In your answer, refer to the principles of safe design. Write 60-100 words for each.
21. Identify two situations where you might need to seek WHS specialist/expert advice when establishing safe work practices.
22. Identify three requirements you would expect to see in an incident and injury reporting policy and procedure.
23. Identify two requirements about consultation and participation you would expect to see in WHS policies and procedures.
24. Identify two workplace support services that may be available for staff in regards to work health and safety.