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Workplace Health and Safety Meeting for an Organisation
WHS (Workplace Health and Safety) is the discipline that protects the health and security of
all workplace participants from exposure to hazard and risks arising from job operations.
Australia strongly promotes the implementation of WHS legislation, conventions and codes
of practice that deliver enhanced health and safety results for all stakeholders across
Australia1.
In the Work Health and Safety (WHS) Act, obligation to avoid workplace bullying,
intimidation and discrimination is covered by the obligation to provide a healthy and safe
working environment secure work systems. The spread of HIV/ AIDS from high risk
communities to the general population and from original hot spots to new fields and
highlights the need for an extensive National AIDS Control Policy to efficiently control the
country’s epidemic. Preventive services include raising awareness, promoting condoms,
preventing parents from transmitting children, growing ICTC services, promoting voluntary
donation of blood and access to secure blood. The strategies also have instructions on
targeted interventions (TI) for high risk organisations such as substances users’ injection
(IDU), men having sex with males (MSM), women sex workers (FSW). In addition,
strategies have comprehensive recommendations for managing prevalent opportunistic
infections, adult PLHA malignancies and operational guidelines for ART centres to
standardize ART facilities across the nation. The National Blood Banks Policy guarantees
that secure blood and blood components are adequately supplied2.
A PCBU has the main care obligation to guarantee employees health and security while
working in the company or responsibility. A PCBU is also accountable for safeguarding that
work performed prepares not pose a danger to other people’s fitness and safety. A PCBU has
additional responsibilities if it is engaged in particular operations such as administration and
mechanism of workplaces or installations, furnishings or plant at works, assembly,
construction or contracting, fitting or plants at workplaces, assembly, structure or
commissioning of plants or structures, making, import or source of plants, materials or
structures. PCBUs also need significant and open consultation with employees, officials of
1 M. Abed, E. Moris, and N. Grannum, ‘Workplace violence against medical staff in healthcare facilities in
Barbados’, (2016) 66(7) Occupational medicine 580-583
2 R. Lia, and T.H. Leung, ‘Leading safety indicators and automated tools in the construction industry’, (2017)
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wellbeing and safety commissions on job vigour and safety. If one share responsibilities one
also need to access, collaborate and organize with other PCBUs as a PCBU3. PCBUs has an
obligation of care towards workplace like direct or impact job performed by an employee
engaging or causing an employee to participate in performing job. Kinds of PCBUs may
contain: public and private business associates in a partnership sole merchants also self-
employed individuals government agencies and organizations of officials, if they have single
or more staff resident government Councils autonomous and University organisations. The
2002 Electricity Safety Act involves an individual directing a company or responsibility
(PCBU) to guarantee that the business or undertaking of the individual is performed in an
electrically secure manner. This ensures that all electrical equipment used in the behaviour of
the company or undertaking of the person is electronically secure to ensure the electrical
safety of all individuals and possessions4.
Codes of practice are admissible in Court proceeding under the Act of Work Health and
Safety, 2011. Courts may consider code of practise as proof of what is known about a
hazard, danger or control, and depend on it to determine what is ‘reasonably feasible’ in the
conditions to which the code refers. PPE is equipment that protects the user from workplace
health and safety hazards. It can include products such as safety helmets and tough hats,
gloves, eye protection, high visibility clothing, security footwear and harnesses for safety.
Employers are responsible for supplying and using private protective devices (PPE) at job.
Jump to Content Table Personal Protective Equipment at job Employers should provide their
staff with suitable personal protective equipment (PPE) and training in their use wherever
there is a health and safety danger. As a last resort PPE should be worn. Whenever there are
health and safety risks that are unable to be otherwise be properly monitored, the Personal
Protective Equipment at Work Regulations require that PPE be worn. An employer, whether
it is returnable or not, cannot charge staff for their PPE. This involves staff of agencies, if
they are considered employees legally. Evaluation and selection of PPE Employers should
provide an adequate and adequate evaluation of health and safety risks from exposure to
workplace hazards5.
3 Namian, M., Alex A. and Feng Jing, ‘Effect of distraction on hazard recognition and safety risk perception’,
(2018) 144(4) Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
4 J.,Wilson and K., Pender, ‘Employment law: Risky business: The legal hazards of relationship in the
workplace’, (2017) 20 Ethos official Publication of the law society of the Australian Capital Territory 20
5 W. Gazica and E. Paul, ‘A test of safety violence prevention and civility climate domain- specific relationships
with relevant workplace hazards’, (2016) 22(1) International journal of occupational and environmental health
45-51.