HLTWHS001 Participate in workplace health and safety Assessment

Part 1: Scenario and short answer questions

To complete this part of the assessment, you will read the questions and complete the responses in the spaces provided. You will need to ensure you take note of the volume of response requirement where indicated.

All responses must:

• address all parts of each question with examples, where required
• use clear and concise language to ensure the intended meaning is understood

Once completed, you must submit this assessment to your Teacher/Assessor for marking.

Task 1-

Read each question carefully. Your answer should be a minimum of50words but no longer than 100words.

1. Complete the table below by listing two (2) requirements of workers referenced in legislation, regulations, policies and/or procedures relevant to education and care services or schools for each of the following contexts.

Contexts

• Duty of care
• Hazardous manual tasks
• Infection control
• Work health and safety

2. Outline two ways you can ensure that you maintain current knowledge of safe work practices (e.g., workplace systems, equipment and processes) in your own work area?

Task 2-

Read the two scenarios and complete the scenario questions in the spaces provided.

Scenario 1- Appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

At your workplace a staff member, on arrival to work, has vomited in the foyer.

1. Provide a list of the appropriate PPE that you would need to wear to clean and disinfect the area.

2. Outlinefourother PPE relevant to the workplace and job role.

Scenario 2- Identify and report any incidents and injuries

Read the following scenario and identify and report any incidents and injuries to designated persons according to workplace procedures.

Simulated workplace incident

It is 4:00 PM on Monday 15thFebruary 2022. You are completing your shift at your workplace (you work as either an educator or school learning support officer). As part of your shift, you are required to maintain safe housekeeping practices in the work area and at the start of your shift, all areas were clear. You havent been in the foyer since the start of your shift but unfortunately, the cleaning staff have left a cleaning bucket half under one of the chairs.

Jane Smith, is a young child (DOB 1/01/2018; Address 16 That Street, This town, 1234) running around the foyer as her mother waits for her scheduled appointment with one of your supervisors.As Jane plays around, her foot gets caught on the cleaning bucket that had been left half under one of the chairs. She stumbles and falls heavily on her left side, impacting her elbow on the tiled floor.

Hearing her cries, you run over to the child who says she has a sore elbow and that her hip and thigh hurt.Mary Smith, Janes mother, witnessed the fall and attended to her first, comforting and helping Jane stable her elbow still.While Janes mother comforts Jane, you go and get the first aid kit and return to Jane to apply basic first aid. As Janes mother has helped Jane steady the arm at a right angle positioned across the front of Janes body, you secure a sling (from the first aid box) to support and brace the arm/elbow still. Jane expresses that she feels her hip and thigh dont hurt so much anymore. Mary has a look and besides the area being a little red it seems ok.

As Jane settles and there are no other signs of injury, Mary requests that no ambulance be called and that she will take Jane to the nearest doctor to get a referral for an X-ray for Janes elbow.After Mary and Jane leave you ensure that the cleaning bucket is removed from the area and stored safely away. You then notify your workplace supervisor, Vivian. Vivian then asks you to complete the workplace incident and injury report.

3.Briefly outline the incidents and injuries from the scenario.

4.Complete the following incident report