BSBWHS501 Ensure a Safe Workplace: A Comprehensive Guide to Workplace Health and Safety

This report delves into the essential knowledge and skills required to establish and maintain a safe workplace, focusing on the Australian Work Health and Safety (WHS) Act. It explores key principles, risk assessment methodologies, and practical strategies for managing hazards in an automotive workshop setting. The report also examines the importance of consultation, communication, and compliance with relevant legislation, providing a comprehensive guide for ensuring a safe and productive work environment.

BSBWHS501 Ensure a safe workplace
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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Assessment Method Three – Task 1..........................................................................................4
Assessment Method Four Task 2 Written Questions...............................................................12
Conclusion................................................................................................................................29
References................................................................................................................................30
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Introduction
This report has undertaken to explore and describe the knowledge and the skills are required
to develop a proper work and safety measures after observation of the various acts in the
organisation context. This report also helps in under the system driven approach with relevant
legislative factors and components.
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Assessment Method Three – Task 1
1. An overview of WH&S principles and practices applicable to the AAA Auto
Repairers workshop and stores areas.
Work health and safety act is developed for the improvement of the working conditions of the
employees. As a manager different principles are required to be planning to establish a good
WHS system. The different principles are related to the providing proper training to the
employees, maintain a good communication way, reporting must be required to be given by
every employee and many more (Matters, 2018). For the better working of the AAA Auto
repairers manager needs to identify the hazard which exists in the organization, for this
proper record keeping is also required and a consultant must be hired to resolve all these kind
of problems.
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2. Explain the understanding you have regarding compliance with relevant state
legislation. List some (at least 2) of the legislation (Acts) that covers an automotive
workshop, or any other workplace you are familiar with.
Employment Relations Act (2000) and the Waste Management Act (2008), these are the two
legislations which are related to the automotive workplace. Both these laws help to provide
the understanding the rights and responsibilities of the employees (Shen, 2017). These
legislations are helpful for removing any kind of issues occurs in the workplace.
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3. Explain how you would conduct a risk assessment in the workshop area of AAA Auto
Repairers. Include any samples of the forms you would use to assist you with your
assessment. Provide details as to where and how you could research common risks to
guide your investigation.
AAA Auto Repairer is the organization where lots of risks exist. Some issues are the risk of
health in the automotive area. Also provides the different suggestions and different
recommendations (Neal, 2017). To maintain the proper WHS system different documents are
needed to be collected and those documents are current health and safety policies and
procedures, health and safety surveys, checklists and audits of the organization.
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4. a) Explain how you would evaluate the findings from your risk assessment.
Risk assessment is the important part of any organization. For evaluating the risk
assessment a risk matrix is prepared and evaluation is done according to their specified area
of risk. The result of the analysis is done on the basis of almost certain, likely, possible and
unlikely and rare.
b) List the WHS/Risk reporting documents you will retain and the information they
provide
The following are the documents which are required to be maintained to retain the
information.
 List of identified hazards
 Current health and safety policies and procedures
 Complaint forms
 Incident, injury, and near-miss reports
 Workers compensation form
 Health and safety survey and checklist.
c) How will these documents/records be stored and be made available when required.
For maintaining the documents proper folders are made to maintain the records of the
different employees and the managers of the organization (Matters, 2018). Proper records are
made and a specified register is made to check all the details and the documents to maintain
all the records.
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5. Explain the consultation and communication processes regarding risk management
that you would initiate with technicians in the workshop. How will you communicate
the outcomes of this process to stakeholders?
(Figure- Risk Process)
(Source –Cavalitto, 2016)
The above model helps to understand the consultation and communication process which
helps in the risk management. Communication and consultation is the initial stage of the risk
assessment. In the risk process, different stages are followed to identify the risk and the
different issues related to the workplace (Mital, 2017). Communication and consultation are
important as this provides the judgment related to the risk and also helps in providing better
decision making.
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6. Explain any intervention strategies you would implement and how you would go
about looking for a specialist if it was necessary. Detail the resources and approvals you
may need to implement these strategies.
To remove the risk assessment in the organization some strategies are made which are
required to be implemented in the workplace (Shaw, 2017). The strategy related to the
workplace stress, which helps the management to remove the different risk and the issues.
To remove the stress of the employees one interaction plan is made, which increase the
communication between the different levels of the organization and this provides the good
understanding and the coordination among all the employees. Resources for the
implementation of the strategies are employees view, feedback form, and consultation with
the manager.
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7.
a) Design an induction Policy & Procedure along with a supporting induction and
training checklist for all workshop staff.
Induction policy is made for the new employees of the organization. The purpose of the
policy is the outline the roles and responsibilities of the new employees.
Induction and training checklist for the workshop staff-
 Induction training design guide
 Free induction training checklist
 Induction training checklist
 A general organizational training checklist
 Structuring induction training plan and
 Training review and feedback form.
b) Describe three measures of success which you will use to measure the effectiveness of
this strategy
To measure the success of the effective strategies some measures are required to be made
 The first measure is based on the measure of the financial results of the organization.
 The second measure of the success is to check the various assessment tools of the
organization (Shaw, 2017).
 The third and the last measure to understand and find the different views of the
stakeholders.
c) What processes will ensure the on-going effectiveness of this approach to managing
risk within the workshop business unit?
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To manage the risk within the workshop of the business unit different process are need to be
made (Fransson, 2018). Different steps are needed to be followed to ensure the effectiveness
of the approach that is – make the preparation of the risk evaluation, elicit and verify the risk
management, analyze gaps and evaluate the different gap of the workplace and made the
report make the appropriate changes.
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Assessment Method Four Task 2 Written Questions
1. What is the purpose of having a legislative framework for Work Health and Safety
(WHS) in Australia?
The purpose of WHS (Work, Health and Safety) in Australia is to observe that every
individual who has employed in Australia has prevailing his rights by his employer. It is the
right of the employee to understand properly his duties of his job as per the description of his
job description for which they have been hired. It is on right of the employee to not perform
the duties that are not mentioned in his job description as per the Australian WHS act. It is
the responsibility of the employer to assess the skill set of the employee. It is also the
responsibility of the employer to provide the right form of equipment to the employees along
with the safety of the job. The employer should also ensure that there should be proper
system for addressing the unfair treatment and unsafe hazards in case they are following up in
the workplace. The principle framework structure for the WHS legislative frame work in
Australia as per below:
 Employer should comply with the laws that form the WHS Act in Australia.
 Develop a healthy and a safe workplace for their employees.
 If the Company is not following up the WHS Act and avoiding costly fines and
prosecutions by the employer.
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2. Workplace safety is governed by WHS (work health & safety) laws. WHS
Legislation comprises
WHS Legislation in Australia compromises of the WHS act. These acts are used to describe
regulations and the rules that are being set in place by the WHS Act. These are act are varied
from the company to company. These are also compromises of the compliance that is used to
describe the willingness of a company to follow the guidelines and set out in the WHS act. To
comply with the regulations of the company they must follow up with the regulations of the
company. The company should pay compensation to the employees that are getting injured
on the functioning of their job and should take care of them till they get recover from the
accident. It also compromised the compliance of the company that is taken for proper
measures of enforcement as per the WHS regulations. WHS act has made a significant impact
on the public life. Now the public will observe the employers differently after the
implementation of the WHS act (Macdonald. et.al. 2014).
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3. the focus of WHS Legislation is to:
The primary objective of the WHS legislation in Australia is to prevent workplace incidents
and improve the safety and working conditions along with the compensation arrangements in
the Australia. They jointly work with the industry unions, and governments and together
work for a goal of improving the hygiene, injury and disease in the workplace. Other focus
point of WHS legislation is to eliminate the risks and hazards that are impacting the safety,
health or wellbeing of the workers. They also ensure that there should be proper mechanism
is in the place to resolve the issues of safety of the workers and ensure the ways to minimise
the risks and hazards that is impacting the safety and wellbeing of the workers. They focus on
the activities to train the employers to train them and describe them with information of the
act.
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4. WHS Act spells out the primary legal duties for:
The primary legal duty of WHS act in Australia is to provide a nationally and balanced
consistent frame work to secure the safety and health of workers and workplace. Below are
the mentioned primary legal duties of the WHS Act (Macdonald. et. al., 2014).
 They help in protecting other persons and the workers from the risk and hazards by
binding the employers under the legal framework.
 They help in strengthening and maintaining the national harmonisation of the laws of
WHS and help in developing a national approach to the WHS act.
 They encourage the employee unions in understanding their rights and duties towards
their company and make them understand where to contact in case of requirement.
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5. WHS Regulation/s:
As the employer of any organisation it is the responsibility of the employer to implement the
safety and health practices in the workplace. Under the Australian WHS act there are various
outlines and steps for implementation of Health and Safety standards
 Providing safe working environment to the workers.
 Assess the form of risks and implement different appropriate measures for proper
control.
 Develop a suitable working environment and facilities for the workplace.
 Develop a timely inspection for the machines and renovate the work place hazards
immediately.
 Undertake insurance activities for the workers and provide compensation to the
workers post hazards or accidents.
WHS regulations are also applied to the automotive workshops as well as people are prone to
injuries while working on the automotive workshops. The accidents may occur while
handling heavy machinery or various forms of awkward objects. The injury chances may
evolve due to various forms of repair work happen due to repair maintenance work happen at
the site of workshop. The automotive industry has its own form of regulations for running the
workshops and following up the safety guidelines of the work place. WHS has also formed a
framework for reducing the work related risks for reducing and avoiding the accidents in the
various forms of workplace (Friend and Kohn, 2014).
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6. Principal WHS Acts in the states and territories contain duty of care obligations. In
a brief paragraph, explain what duty of care means.
The WHS act in different states and territories has various form of obligations are being
observed for carrying out the basic primary duty of the business. Primary duty means that the
any business entity has prime responsibility to take care of the safety and health of the
workers and other people are influenced by this action. All business are must ensure that as
far as possible that will follow the practicable safety and health policies of is employees and
any other individual who are directly or indirectly associated with their business. A business
should always look after other people that are doing risk or more hazardous form of work
(Friend and Kohn, 2014).
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7. List 3 employee obligations and 3 employer obligations regarding WHS
Employers or business entity (other than PCBUs) has to follow various obligations to follow
under the WHS act and compensation laws of the workers. Three prime are mentioned below:
 Employers have to follow the duty of caring and also follow the duty to consulting
with their employees.
 They have to ensure that effective reasonable practicable means are to be followed up
to ensure the safety and the health of the workers.
 Their prime responsibility is to train the works for avoiding the accidents on the work
place and ensure proper safety measures on the work place is being observed. There
should be formal procedures and policy should be in place to help the injured workers
(Dėjus and Antuchevičienė, 2013).
As a worker there are also some obligations requited to be follow on their part also mentioned
below:
 A worker should take proper care of their own safety and health issues.
 Workers also take care of the health issues of the others with reasonable care.
 Worker should comply with any reasonable procedure, policies and reasonable form
of instructions given by their employer, controller or the employer at their workplace.
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8. List 5 strategies for managing hazards in a hierarchy of control measures.
Hierarchy of hazard control is type of mechanism that is generally being used by the industry
for minimizing the risks or eliminating the exposure for the hazards. This form of system is
widely accepted system mechanism widely accepted by various form of organisations
globally and also majorly in Australian industries and it has also been promoted by various
safety organisations around the world. This form of concept is generally accepted by the
industry managers to form a standard work place (Schaufeli and Taris, 2014). In order to
decrease the effectiveness of the hazards there are various components are undertaken to
control in the hazards hierarchy are as follows:
 Elimination of Hazards – Removing the hazard physically
 Substitution of Hazard – Replacing the factors or elements of hazard is also the
effective measure of controlling hazard.
 Engineering Controls - It is the third most prominent method that isolates the people
from hazards instead of eliminating them.
 Administrative Controlling – Here changes have been made to change the style of
working of people and encourage them to work safely and effectively.
 Using Protective equipment’s – Encourage the use of protective measures, uniforms
and other safety measure to be followed on the workplaces to avoid accidents.
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9. As a department manager, explain how you would assess (or evaluate and prioritise)
the levels of any risks you or your team has identified. Why is it necessary to
consider any relevant employees or customers with disabilities when assessing risk?
The primary responsibly of a department manager to assess the various forms of risks that
may be evolve during the course of work in the work place and his responsibility to identify
them and prioritize as per the urgency and immediate attention to be taken. After the
identification of the various forms of risks there should be proper evaluation has to be done to
decide the priority of the risks that helps in understanding which risks are most important and
to manage earlier. There are tips to be followed for assessing the priority of the risks
( Schaufeli and Taris, 2014).
 Project the risks – Identify the risks that are affecting the project.
 Process of the steps of the project – Helps in identification of risks in various levels.
 Resources allocation – Proper allocation of resources al helps in reduction of risks.
 Stake holders – Understand the involvement of stakeholders in the risk assessment.
 Tools to deal with Risk - Primary tools or techniques to deal with the risks.
 Risk acceptability - Understand the priority of the risks and analyse the priority of the
risks.
 Evaluation of the risks – Meeting should be organised to evaluate the risk factors.
Also it the responsibility of the employer to assess the problems and the barriers for the
disabled workers and create the necessary change in the design of the work place so that
disabled people can get safe passage at the times of the risks (Holt and Allen, 2015).
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10. Why is it important to define the Scope of a Risk management plan? Provide 3
examples of how risk could be prioritised by different stakeholder priorities.
Defining the scope of risk management is an important function of the risk management.
Planning the risk efficiently helps i taking the timely action for the risk. Management of the
risk is a form of action plan that consisting various form of steps that has to be undertake to
the elimination of risk or hazards. Examples are project managers, key stakeholders and
alliances are using their resources to be allocated properly for the risk elimination.
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11. Explain the understanding you have regarding compliance with relevant state
legislation. List some (at least 2) of the legislation (Acts) that covers workshop areas
in a business, or any other workplace you are familiar with.
Compliance means a rule conformation such a policy a specification and a standard law that
the organisations describe the goal or the organisations to achieve or aspire in their efforts
with relevant laws. In Australia there are three forms of legislation act that are covering
workshops such as work health and safety act 2011, Occupational Health and safety act 1991
and Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare Act 1986.
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12. Explain how you would conduct a risk assessment in an automotive workshop.
Include any samples of the forms you would use to assist you with your assessment.
Provide details as to where and how you could research common risks to guide your
investigation.
Conducting a risk assessment in a automotive workshop has passes with various steps such as
Mechanical equipment drawing, understanding or checking the electrical equipment’s, Prone
to back injuries due to lifting of heavy equipment’s, trips and slips, fire, working at unusual
height, excess noise (Johnstone and Tooma, 2012).
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13. A. Explain how you would evaluate the findings from your risk assessment
After identification of the risks the proper steps should be planned to eliminate the sources of
the risk and proper strategies are too organised for reducing the risk designs.
B. List the WHS/Risk reporting documents you will retain and the information they
provide
Different forms of WHS/ Risk reporting document such as External and internal review of the
work, complete documentation of the hazards, meeting documents for discussing the WHS
issues etc. (Holt and Allen, 2015).
C. How will these documents/records be stored and be made available when
required.
The documents are to be stored in safe atmosphere in safe storage place in their system.
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14. Explain the consultation and communication processes regarding risk management
that you would initiate with members of the workshop. How will you communicate
the outcomes of this process to stakeholders?
There is proper communication and the consultation among the employees should be
organized for the risk management. Timely observation of the workplace and the
environment relating the risk management process is also required as a part of the stake
holders.
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15. Explain any intervention strategies you would implement and how you would go
about looking for a specialist if it was necessary. Detail the resources and approvals
you may need to implement these strategies.
There are proper guidelines are to be mentioned in the risk assessment process and priory of
the risk factors and improving areas of risks factors to be found out for assessment of the risk
elevation has to be undertaken (Australia, 2012)..
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16. a. Source an example of an induction Policy & Procedure along with a supporting
induction and training checklist which you could use for all workshop staff.
Employee’s induction policy and staff welfare induction policy are the examples of the
different types of induction policy that are being used.
b. Describe three measures of success which you will use to measure the
effectiveness of this strategy
The effectiveness of this will depend largely on various forms of the steps that are undertaken
in identification and the elimination of the risks (Johnstone and Tooma, 2012).
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17. What processes will ensure the on-going effectiveness of managing risk within the
workshop business unit?
The risk manage program effectiveness depends on the different form of principles that are
required to be organized effectively for the management of the risk. The major factor for the
effectiveness of the program has to be undertaken to help the people in management of the
risk effectively by checking the productivity factors (Australia, 2012).
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Conclusion
The above report helps in understanding the various factors and the methods and techniques
are associate with the work and safety of the workers by following up the various form of
obligations by keeping in loop of employers and employees and following the various
legislative acts and also identification of the improvement areas if any and create a safe and
productive environment for the workers which help in increasing the productivity
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