Workplace Safety and Risk Management

This assessment focuses on workplace safety and risk management principles. It requires you to analyze potential hazards in a fuel station setting, apply the hierarchy of risk control, and demonstrate understanding of WHS legislative reporting requirements. You'll also need to examine reporting practices within specific workplaces like UWA or FMG.

BSBWHS501 Ensure a safe workplace
Assessment 1: Knowledge based questions
Unit and Assessment Details
Assessment Title Knowledge based questions
Unit/Cluster Code BSBWHS501
Unit/Cluster Title Ensure a safe workplace
Course Code Title ICT50115 Diploma of Information Technology
ICT50415 Diploma of Information Technology Networking
Assessor Name Vidhu Bhardwaj
Assessment Date/Due Date As per Unit Outline
Assessment Instructions for Students
1. This assessment involves 9 questions.
2. This assessment is to be completed over a period of four (4) sessions in a computer lab environment.
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Questions
1. John is running small cafés in city of Perth. However, he has been warned for being non-
compliant with WHS/OHS legislative requirements. Can you help him identifying relevant
WHS Acts, regulations and codes of practice, which may help him in being compliant?
John has been running small cafes in Perth city. He has been warned that he was not
complying with the WHS/OHS legislative requirement. Therefore, the precise WHS Acts,
codes of practice and regulations that would help John to stay complaint with the legislative
requirements are as follows:
It is known that John has his cafes in Perth and therefore is under the legislative
requirements within Western Australia. The OHS/WHS legislative requirements are:
WHS Act: Occupational Safety and Health Act 1984 (WA)
Regulations: Occupational Safety and Health Regulations 1996 (WA)
Codes: Western Australia Codes of Practice
Regulator: WorkSafe WA
By complying with these aspects, John would become compliant.
2. You are Katie, a restaurant manager appointed in new fast food joint. You feel the need to
create safety policies and procedures. But before that you need to identify hazards at your
workplace. Explain what is risk identification and any three methods, whichcan be used for
hazard identification.
The process of risk identification is the procedure of ascertaining the risks that could
probably restrict the enterprise, program or investment from accomplishing their objectives.
It is inclusive of communicating and documenting the issues that are under consideration.
The three types of methods that can be used for the purpose of hazard identification are:
Observation: This can be used with the help of sensing of sight, smell and hearing and
touching with the help of combining their experience and knowledge.
Record Analysis: This is done by maintaining the records of the recognised hazards, nearly
misses, injuries and the compensation of the workers with the help of claims in order to
assist the identification of the probable trends.
Safety Audits: This is considered for establishing the safety committee in order to examine
safety and assist in preparing a management plan.
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3. Research and Specify Organizational policies, procedures, programs and practices for
WHSforyour own workplace? You may choose any other real workplace like McDonalds,
Wilson Security, etc for your research.
The organizational procedures, practices and programs for WHS with respect to
McDonalds are explained as follows:
Manage risks to safety and health and restricts incidents: by recognising and evaluating the
workplace hazards and aiming to terminate or reducing the risks with respect to health and
safety and in that manner prevent incidents.
Comply with the law: McDonalds looks to comply with all precise Australian Work Health
and Safety legislation, standards and regulations. The company will function on the safety
regulators within the country in order to accomplish the compliance and sustainably
enhance the results.
Set targets and goals in order to improve: McDonalds will construct measurable targets and
objectives for the safety and helath in order to assist and aim for sustainable enhancement
as they work towards the mitigation of the work associated injury and illness in the
workplace of McDonalds.
Up-Skill and engage employees at every level: The company will train their employees
towards work safety, will engage their employees at every level, and will boost the top-down
culture of safety in order to reinforce and demonstrate their commitment to the safety and
health of their employees.
Consult and communicate safety: McDonalds concentrates on the fact to ensure that their
process of consultation provides the employees with the opportunity to be added in the
process of decision making which can have an impact on the safety and health at work.
4. Outline the risk management process that can be used in a work area.
The various risk management processes that can be exploited in a work area are as given
below:
1. Identify the risk: It is essential identify, uncover and explain the risks that can have an
impact on the operational outcome. Several mechanism can be used in order to discover
the project risks. In this step, it is essential to construct a Project Risk Register.
2. Analyse the risk: As the risks are discovered, it is essential to ascertain the
consequences and the likelihood of every risk. It is essential to develop an understanding
of the characteristics of the risk and its potentiality to have an impact on the goals and
objectives of the project.
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3. Evaluate the risk: The assessment of the risk is undertaken by ascertaining the
magnitude of the risk, which is a combination of the consequence and the likelihood.
This will be helpful in taking decisions about the fact that whether the risk is acceptable
or is complex enough to treat the warrant. These ranking of the risks are even included
in the Project Risk Register.
4. Treatment of the risk: This is even known as the Risk Response Planning. In this step, it
is essential to evaluate the risks that has been of the highest rank and construct a plan in
order to modify and treat the risks in order to accomplish the accepted level of risks.
5. Monitor and Review the risk: This is the step where the Project Risk Register is used in
order to supervise review and track the risks. The risk is about the uncertainty. If a
framework is put around the uncertainty, then it is essential to de-risk the project. This
helps in the development of confidence in order to reach their goals. The process of risk
management aids in resolving the issues when they take place as these issues have been
identified and measures are taken in order to eliminate the risks.
5. Lynda recently started working in fuel station as Site supervisor and observes certain
hazards like fuel spills, highly combustible substances. She is confused on how to control
these risks. Can you explain hierarchy of risk control and how it can be applied to her
workplace?
The hierarchy of risk control that can be applied in the workplace are as follows:
Elimination: The elimination of the hazard is the most efficient risk control.
Substitution: It is the second most efficient risk control and that is inclusive of replacing the
things that produces hazards with the help of things that does not produce hazards.
Engineering controls: This is the third most effective controlling hazards is with the help of
engineered control. These do not mitigate the hazards but in the other sense isolate the
people from the hazards. The capital costs of controlled engineering look to be higher than
the less effective controls in the hierarchy, but they may decrease the future costs.
Administrative controls: The administrative controls are the transformations to the process
in which the individuals work. Instances of administrative controls are inclusive of the
procedural changes, training of the employees, warning labels and installation of time. The
administrative controls do not eliminate the hazards but prevents or restricts the exposure of
the individuals to the hazards.
Personal Protective equipment: The personal protective equipment are inclusive of the
special gadgets like the safety glasses, safety footwear, gloves, hard hats etc and is the least
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effective measure of controlling the hazards due to the increased potential damages that can
happen to them.
6. Write a short note on WHS legislative reporting requirements. Also analyse reporting
requirements of any two real workplaces. You may choose your own workplace, or Big
organisations like UWA, FMG, BP etc.
The WHS reporting requirement comprises of the framework of WHS Regulations that
contains the requirement of record keeping that is applicable in all the states especially in
Western Australia. The WHS record keeping requirement for the jurisdiction that is
harmonised have been provided in the framework regulations to the Workplace Health and
Safety Act and has been implemented into every jurisdiction’s own regulations. The
Regulation covers the areas that have been given as follows:
 Supervising the contaminant level that is air-borne
 Spaces that have been confined
 Electrical installations and tools
 Plant
 Chemicals that are hazardous in nature
 Asbestos
 Lead
 Key hazard facilities
End of assessment.
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