Importance of Safe Work Practices in Woolworth NZ

MGT227 Project 2

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Summary of health and safety management system...............................................................1
What is safety supervision and its requirement to ensure safe work practices......................2
CONCLUSION (200)......................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Safe work practices are concerned with practices of work which involves and reduces
that risk for individual performing task to minimum. This is very important for organisation and
there are several reasons for this. This present study will discuss about importance of safe work
practices and some of the elements related to this in context of Woolworth NZ. Woolworth NZ is
second largest company in NZ in Grocery industry. Formerly the company was known as
Progressive Enterprise and is a subsidiary company of Woolworth Ltd (Humayun, 2016). The
company was founded in 1949 and is headquartered at Auckland, New Zealand. Products of the
company are Countdown, FreshChoice and SuperValue. To manage all these products and
functions of the company Woolworth NZ has employed around 18000 employees. The company
operates under retail industry and as it was started as Progressive Enterprises later became
Woolworth NZ under its retail operations there are 184 Countdown supermarket stores, 40
SuperVAlue which are convenience supermarket stores and 30 FreshChoice high quality
supermarkets with large range are operated by Woolworth NZ. This report will discuss about
safe work practices and regarding Woolworth NZ it is governed by Health and Safety Workplace
Act 2015 (Haskins and et.al., 2020). This act consist several regulations and safety measures
which are required to be followed by Woolworth NZ to ensure safety of all the employees at the
workplace. Followed by this the report will discuss about safety supervision and what are the
requirements of the safety supervision. The requirements are several and some of them involve
performance standards, safety training, illness rate, KPI, absenteeism and some others. These are
all important because this not only involves safety from legal issues but also ensure high
performance standards of the Woolworth NZ. This is because all the operations which are carried
out by the employees require that they are healthy and safe to carry out the tasks.
MAIN BODY
Summary of health and safety management system
In the context of occupational health and safety management practices it can be analysed
that it plays an important role and it is important for all small and large level of organizations to
implement and follow all practices. It is all related to ensuring and providing safety to all people
work in workplace and is involved with the company directly and indirectly. It has also been
summarized that by implementing HSWA act 2015, Woolworth NZ is protecting their
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