WHS Failure in Nestle Australia

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Introduction
Nestle Oceania is operating as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Swiss-based,
international food and beverage company, Nestle S.A. The company is recognized as a
renowned part of the Swiss-based, global food as well as beverages organization,
Nestle S.A. Nestlé Oceania's comprises of around 5678 employees across 13 factories
as well as 5 distribution centres in addition to 25 office sites across Australia, New
Zealand in addition to the Pacific Islands (Nestle.au 2019). Nestle employed around
308,500 staffs around the world. Nestlé SA has been recognized as a primary
multinational producer of food products. The company has been headquartered in
Vevey, Switzerland as well as primarily controls factories in over 80 nations (Nossar et
al. 2015). Nestle Australia Ltd has been recognized as a Public Company which has
been ranked in 202th position out of the top 2000 organizations in Australia. The
company primarily generates the majority of its revenue from the Food
Product Manufacturing in Australia sector. Reports of Potter et al. (2017) have revealed
that in 2017 the organization has generated total revenue of around $2,220,849,000
which includes sales along with other revenue.
Discussion
WHS Failure in Nestle
The WHS Legislative Framework mainly comprises of 5 parts. It has been noted
that the WHS Act has been approved with the exception of Victoria and Western
Australia; by the commonwealth along with State and Territory governments. The

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legislative framework has been formed regulations concerning staffs regarding their
responsibilities in the workplace, the risk management in addition to the resources of
reporting events that tend to occur in the workplace in addition to the ways that
organization strategies are have been enforced ((Nossar et al. 2015). The WHS
regulations, the codes of practice have been used in order to execute the act along with
the principles and values applied to the act as well as the supervision materials which
are essential for organization to act. Reports of Potter et al. (2017) have noted that the
WHS legislative framework has been recognized as a set of guidelines for organizations
to implement and efficiently provide protected and safer workplaces for their employee
base. The WHS legislative has been identified as written regulations which
organizations must adhere to for efficiently providing their staffs with a secure and
harmless workplace. It has been noted that the legislative framework primarily entails all
information which must be attained by the employer to show compliance to policies,
regulations and laws governing the Work Health & Safety ACT.
As per reports of Anderson and Chun (2014), Nestlé Australia believes that
accidents can be preventable, thus sheds light on efficiently integrating Safety and
Health in the management of its business. The WHS framework is maintained through
such processes that all activities tend to be considered with a standpoint of prevention
of all types of accidents and provide safety and protection to all employees. Therefore,
in order to develop a well-established safety culture that effectively prevents accidents,
Nestle Australia has established local safety and health organisations which offer expert
advice to managers as well as employees. Regardless of Nestle Australia’s focus on
WHS legislature, the company has recently faced by the company regarding unsafe

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storage over work area. Reports of Gazica and Spector (2016) have noted that storage
of materials in Nestle Australia storehouses have been creating hazards. There has
been witnessed that Nestle Australia managers have been persistently overlooking
unsafe clearances for aisles at manufacturing sites loading aisles. Aisles and
passageways have been reported to be highly unclear, thus showing lack of repair, with
significant obstruction across or in aisles which have been creating a hazard. As a
result, Nestle Australia has been facing WHS legislative issues with its aisle
construction as well as passageways which has been creating hazard in the
organization’s business operations. The impact of non-compliance to WHS of Nestle
Australia has further hugely affected the community in which the organization has been
operating. Anderson and Chun (2014) have noted that Nestle Australia has not been
complying with the safety guidelines established to efficiently safeguard their
employees. As a result, there can be noticed a propensity for employees of Nestle
Australia to encounter severe injury. On the other hand, reported of Okun, Guerin and
Schulte (2016) have revealed that many employees of Nestle Australia fail to receive
any compensation for any severe injury. However, with many employees reporting
cases of severe injury have shed light on the non-compliance of Nestle Australia with
company’s safety guidelines. Even after comprehensive safety guidelines and
regulations have been clearly stated in company’s guidelines.
As per reports of Tehrani (2014), with increasing rate of WHS legislative
framework issues several employees engaged in the manufacturing site of Nestle
Australia have reached out for public assistance in seeking for adequate medical
resources, employee insurance and food expenses. Furthermore, Gazica and Spector