SITXWHS003 Implement and monitor work health and safety practices Assignment

Questions

1. Identify five examples of actions that a business needs to take to be legally compliant under WHS legislation.
2. Identify four responsibilities employers have to provide a safe workplace.
3. Identify four responsibilities employees have to ensure a safe workplace for themselves, their colleagues and others who attend the workplace.
4. List three reasons businesses are required to consult with the workforce on WHS matters.
5. Name the four occasions when employers are required by WHS legislation to consult with the workforce.
6. Identify who the employers are required to consult with regarding WHS issues.
7. Complete the box below by briefly explaining how each option operates to enable effective consultation on WHS issues.

8. Explain the role and responsibilities of health and safety representatives. In your answer, also discuss requirements in regards to how they are appointed.
9. Identify three obligations an employer has to their health and safety representative.
10. List three roles and responsibilities of workplace Health and Safety Representatives.
11. List five occasions that WHS hazard identification would need to take place.
12. List three categories of workplace hazards that must be identified when undertaking workplace hazard identifications.
13. List five acceptable ways in which workplace hazard identification might occur.
14. List three acceptable practices inherent in workplace risk assessment.
15. List the six classifications of risk controls provided for in the ‘Hierarchy of Risk Controls’.
16. List five requirements organisations need to comply with in relation to WHS record keeping.
17. List three requirements organisations need to comply with in relation to acceptable record keeping mechanisms.
18. Explain the requirement an employer is under to provide workplace WHS training to employees.
19. Describe three employee responsibilities in relation to participating in established WHS practices and training.
20. Identify ten possible ramifications for employers who fail to observe OHS or WHS laws and COPs.
21. Detail comprehensive details of the Safe Work Australia Model Code of Practice ‘Hazardous manual tasks’.
22. List three methods of receiving updated information on OHS or WHS laws and Code of practice.
23. Complete the table by providing a reason for each time that hazard identification must be carried out.

24. List five possible inclusions in workplace WHS record keeping systems.
25. List four examples of WHS ‘consultation’ record requirements.
26. Identify three hazard identification records that need to be maintained in a workplace.
27. Identify five examples of ‘notifiable incidents’ where a person has been impacted that need to be reported.
28. List five examples of ‘notifiable incidents’ where a person has not been impacted or injured that need to be reported.
29. Why do WHS statistics need to be reviewed and reported on?
30. Discuss how the following are used when developing monitoring reports and making recommendations for change:

• agendas for and minutes of meetings
• committee members
• consultation decisions and follow-up actions
• consultation processes
• diaries of meetings
• WHS information provided to personnel
• risk controls
• safe work practices

31. Identify three reasons there is a need for workplaces to establish and maintain records regarding risk assessments including risk control actions that have been implemented.
32. Identify five examples of details that need to be maintained regarding WHS training plans developed by an organisation for their employees.
33. List five examples of details that need to be maintained regarding WHS training undertaken by employees of an organisation.