SITXWHS003 Implement and monitor work health and safety practices Assignment
Questions
- Identify five examples of actions that a business needs to take to be legally compliant under WHS legislation.
- Identify four responsibilities employers have to provide a safe workplace.
- Identify four responsibilities employees have to ensure a safe workplace for themselves, their colleagues and others who attend the workplace.
- List three reasons businesses are required to consult with the workforce on WHS matters.
- Name the four occasions when employers are required by WHS legislation to consult with the workforce.
- Identify who the employers are required to consult with regarding WHS issues.
- Complete the box below by briefly explaining how each option operates to enable effective consultation on WHS issues.
Consultative Process |
Explanation |
Diary, whiteboard or suggestion box. |
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Fact sheets about WHS rights and responsibilities. |
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Formal WHS representatives and committees. |
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Formal meetings with agendas, minutes and action plans. |
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Informal meetings with notes. |
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WHS discussions with employees during the course of a business day. |
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Recording issues in a management diary. |
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Regular staff meetings that involve WHS discussions. |
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Seeking staff suggestions for content of WHS policies and procedures. |
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Special staff meetings or workshops to specifically address WHS issue. |
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Staff handbook containing WHS information. |
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Surveys or questionnaire that invite staff feedback on WHS issues. |
- Explain the role and responsibilities of health and safety representatives. In your answer, also discuss requirements in regards to how they are appointed.
- Identify three obligations an employer has to their health and safety representative.
- List three roles and responsibilities of workplace Health and Safety Representatives.
- List five occasions that WHS hazard identification would need to take place.
- List three categories of workplace hazards that must be identified when undertaking workplace hazard identifications.
- List five acceptable ways in which workplace hazard identification might occur.
- List three acceptable practices inherent in workplace risk assessment.
- List the six classifications of risk controls provided for in the Hierarchy of Risk Controls.
- List five requirements organisations need to comply with in relation to WHS record keeping.
- List three requirements organisations need to comply with in relation to acceptable record keeping mechanisms.
- Explain the requirement an employer is under to provide workplace WHS training to employees.
- Describe three employee responsibilities in relation to participating in established WHS practices and training.
- Identify ten possible ramifications for employers who fail to observe OHS or WHS laws and COPs.
- Detail comprehensive details of the Safe Work Australia Model Code of Practice Hazardous manual tasks.
- List three methods of receiving updated information on OHS or WHS laws and Code of practice.
- Complete the table by providing a reason for each time that hazard identification must be carried out.
Time when hazard identification must be carried out |
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Before premises are used for the first time. |
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Before and during the installation or alteration of any plant, machinery or equipment. |
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Before changes to work practices, procedures or processes are introduced. |
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When any new information relating to health and safety risks becomes available. |
- List five possible inclusions in workplace WHS record keeping systems.
- List four examples of WHS consultation record requirements.
- Identify three hazard identification records that need to be maintained in a workplace.
- Identify five examples of notifiable incidents where a person has been impacted that need to be reported.
- List five examples of notifiable incidents where a person has not been impacted or injured that need to be reported.
- Why do WHS statistics need to be reviewed and reported on?
- 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
- 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.
- Identify five examples of details that need to be maintained regarding WHS training plans developed by an organisation for their employees.
- List five examples of details that need to be maintained regarding WHS training undertaken by employees of an organisation.