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Manage legal and ethical compliance

1. What policies does your vocational placement organisation have in place for work health and safety? Provide the name of at least two (2) policies.

2. Select one (1) policy from your responses to Question 1 and briefly explain the procedures under this policy.

3. What work health and safety responsibilities do you have, as a caseworker, to your colleagues, clients, and the community? Provide three (3).

Conducting Work Health and Safety Review
For this part of the assessment, you will be required to conduct a work health and safety review in your organisation.
This part is divided into two (2) tasks:
Conduct safety inspection.
Conduct review of work health and safety procedures.

Part 1 - Safety Inspection

This part requires you to conduct a safety inspection of your vocational workplace. The objective is to identify hazards, assess associated risks, and develop control measures to risks identified.
Read all instructions carefully before proceeding.
Steps to take:
Locate the Workplace Safety Inspection Sheet found on the following pages.
Have your supervisor sign the authorisation section on the form allowing you to access the workplace and conduct a WHS inspection.
Conduct the inspection following the checklist provided on the Workplace Inspection Sheet. For every area in the workplace, provide a risk rating by indicating N/A (not applicable), Low, Medium, High, or Extreme in the Risk Rating column.

Record any associated risks, and at least one (1) recommended control measure for each area inspected, where applicable.

Part 2 - Work Health and Safety Review
This part requires you to conduct a review of work health and safety procedures in your organisation, as part of managing work health and safety.
The review will cover the processes relevant to work health and safety in your organisation. Specifically, this will cover procedures on:
Risk management and risk control
Incident/hazard reporting
Consultation, cooperation, and communication
Evaluation and maintenance of WHS
Emergency management

Steps to take:
Locate the WHS Review Form found on the following pages.

Have your supervisor sign the authorisation section on the form allowing you to access the workplace and conduct a WHS review.

Conduct the review following the items provided on the WHS Review Form.

Have your supervisor sign the completed WHS Review Form.

Scan and save the completed and signed form using the filename: Subject 1 - WHS Review.

Develop Work Health and Safety Action Plans

This part requires you to develop action plans as part of managing work health and safety. Specifically, you will be required to develop an action plan for the following:
Risk management
Identifying work health and safety training needs
Record-keeping for work health and safety. Each action plan you develop must include:
Step-by-step procedures or strategies
Consultation
Ownership (who is responsible for implementing and monitoring policies and procedures)
Monitoring and review processes of the action plan.

Deliver a Work Health and Safety Induction

For this part of the assessment, you are required to conduct a work health and safety induction. If this cannot be performed in the actual workplace, you can perform a simulated induction with at least two (2) personnel from the workplace.

Safety Induction Pack
1. What is work health and safety?
2. Why is work health and safety important?

WHS LEGISLATION
1. Provide at least two (2) legislative WHS duties of employer or PCBU in work.
2. Provide at least two (2) legislative WHS duties of employee or worker.

WHS REGULATIONS
1. Provide at least two (2) relevant provisions of the WHS Regulations in your State/Territory.
2. Provide at least two (2) legislative WHS duties of employee or worker.

MANAGING WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY RISKS CODE OF PRACTICE
1. What is a management committee?
2. Outline the four (4) steps in risk management and briefly explain each step.

EFFECTIVE CONSULTATION IN RISK MANAGEMENT
1. What is consultation?
2. What is the importance of effective consultation in managing work health and safety risks?

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICIES, PROCEDURES, AND PROGRAMS
1. Outline WHS policies, procedures, and programs in your workplace.

WHERE/HOW CAN EMPLOYEES ACCESS WHS INFORMATION IN THE ORGANISATION?
1. Provide information or instructions on where and how the employee can access workplace WHS information.

HOW TO USE PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE)
1. Provide information or instructions on the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) where required.

PART 1 MANAGE LEGAL AND ETHICAL COMPLIANCE
1. Describe two (2) instances when you evaluated your own area of work. In your evaluation, determine the scope of compliance requirements.

2. Describe two (2) instances when you evaluated work practices for non-compliance on an ongoing basis. List modifications implemented for each, following evaluation.

3. Describe two (2) instances when you maintained and updated required accreditations or certifications.

4. Describe three (3) instances when you developed a strategic response to different situations where legal or ethical requirements have been breached.

5. Describe two (2) instances when you identified and used opportunities to maintain knowledge of current and emerging legal requirements and ethical issues.

6. Describe two (2) instances when you developed procedures for ongoing hazard identification and assessment and control of associated risks.
Include in your descriptions how you ensured risk controls and hazard-specific procedures are consistent with the hierarchy of control.

7. Describe two (2) instances when you identified requirements for expert WHS advice and requested this advice as required.

8. Describe two (2) instances when you developed and provided consultative WHS activities to provide advice on work health and safety issues.

9. Describe two (2) instances when you monitored processes for ensuring that workers have an opportunity to contribute feedback on health and safety issues.

10. Describe two (2) instances when you documented outcomes of consultation with workers and communicated it to them.

11. Describe an instance when you developed and implemented processes to ensure that responsibilities and duties are documented, and that accountability processes are in place.

12. Describe an instance when you implemented and monitored training programs to ensure identified WHS training requirements are addressed, including the induction process.

13. Describe two (2) instances when you developed WHS record-keeping policies and procedures and provided information to workers.

14. Describe two (2) instances when you monitored hazard, incident, and injury reporting processes to meet legislative requirements and to inform future prevention strategies.

15. Describe two (2) instances when you evaluated WHS record-keeping policies and procedures for compliance with legislative requirements.

16. Describe an instance when you determined WHS priorities in consultation with the workgroup.

b. From the instance you described above, explain how you developed a WHS action plan taking account of the priorities and training needs that you have identified.

17. Describe two (2) instances when you identified potential barriers to improvement in evaluating and maintaining WHS.

18. Describe two (2) instances when you established processes to monitor achievement against the plan and updated plans as required.

19. Describe two (2) instances when you conducted consultative discussions with at least 2 workers, regarding outcomes of a workplace risk assessment.

20. Describe two (2) instances when you monitored workplace compliance.

21. Describe two (2) instances when you developed a WHS action plan, including strategies for monitoring and review.