Legislative Support for Workplace Health and Safety

Research Analysis
Topic Research content Source
Legislative
support for the
Awesome
Landscape
regarding their
workplace
health and
safety issue.
Poor maintenance of the premises :
Improper maintenance of work premises in terms of
repairing and wiring system can result various hazards
including the falling hazards, physical hazards, electrical
hazards and fire hazards which can cause permanent
damage to persons and the business properties.
In case of any hazard the management of awesome
landscape should take the responsibility for treating
their injured workers with providing compensations.
The operational management and the human resource
management of Awesome Landscape should make
appropriate hazard identification and reporting protocol
for all the employees to eliminate all the potential causes
of the hazards.
Awesome Landscape has to train their employees
through both on job and event based training regarding
the health and safety procedures and their importance.
The hazard identification and reporting process can be
informed to the employees.
Lack of workplace design and inspection
Because of the poor workplace design the wrongly
designed floor and ceiling can cause various hazards
including the falling hazards, physical hazards which can
Australia.gov.au. 2018. WHS (Workplace health
and safety) | australia.gov.au. [online] Available at:
https://www.australia.gov.au/information-and-
services/jobs-and-workplace/whs-workplace-health-
and-safety [Accessed 14 Dec. 2018].
Business.gov.au. 2018. Work Health and Safety
(OHS) acts, regulations and codes of practice.
[online] Available at:
https://www.business.gov.au/risk-management/h
ealth-and-safety/whs-oh-and-s-acts-regulations-
and-codes-of-practice [Accessed 14 Dec. 2018].
Reliability of
source
Both of these sources are
government website made for online
occupational health and safety related
guidance of the existing and new
organisations
How
ambiguities,
inconsistencie
s,
inadequacies
or
contradictions
were dealt
with.
The sources ware found in
online link and from many discussion
forum regarding workplace health
and safety compliance. Each and
every pages of this websites was
visited to find the information. The
information were compared with the
offline guideline provided by the local
authority.