OHS402 Contractor Management and Organisational Safety Assessment

Activity 1: Description of your chosen organization

This section is very important. It describes the context of your organization.

The answers you give to the remaining activities in Part 2 must be consistent with the information you provide here. This information paints a picture that helps the Examiner award you marks for relevance and suitability in those later activities. For example, if you work in the service sector, such as banking or insurance, it would be unusual to later describe a situation where welding contractors are repairing a chemical storage tank in your own organization; but that would not be unusual in a chemical factory.

Provide a detailed description of your chosen organisation. Representative

Examples should be included where relevant.

As a minimum, your description must include the following

- Industrial sector, e.g., agriculture, service industry, manufacturing, etc

- Physical features of the site (if your chosen organisation has multiple

Sites, describe only the site that you are basing your assessment on)

- Location

- Approximate site area

- Number and types (e.g., offices, warehouse, etc) of buildings

- Main activities carried out at the site

- Worker profile and work organisation at the site

- The main roles and responsibilities within the organisation with

Examples

- Number of workers by employment status with examples, e.g.,

Contract, full-time, etc

- Number and types of vulnerable groups

- The typical work shift pattern(s).

Note: You are free to include any other information that you think is relevant, but no additional marks are available. You are therefore advised to include as much relevant detail as you can under the above categories. If the location or activity of your organisation is sensitive (for whatever reason) you are permitted to create fictitious (but nonetheless representative) details. For example, the location may be changed if this would otherwise reveal sensitive detail.

Activity 2: Management of contractors

• Review how your chosen organisation (outlined in Activity 1) selects contractors and manages them while they are on site.

Your answer must consider the main topics from INDG368, specifically

• Identification of job


• Criteria for selection of contractors


• assessing the risks from the work


• Provision of information, instruction and training


• Co-operation and co-ordination


• Consultation with workforce


• Management and supervision of contractors while on site


• Relevant legal requirements

Note: You must use suitable examples from your chosen organization to illustrate your answer

(b) Make TWO recommendations for improving contractor selection or

Management in your chosen organization, AND justify EACH of the

Recommendations.

Notes: The recommendations can be from the same topic, but they must require separate actions and have different outcomes. For example, you may make two recommendations that relate to contractor selection criteria. You must use the Activity 2(b) format table provided in the answer sheet to record your answers. There are 10 marks available for each recommendation.