Ensuring a Safe Workplace: Effectiveness and Limitations of OHS/WHS Policies in Primary Industries

ENSURE A SAFE WORKPLACE

Table of Contents
Introduction 2
Effectiveness of OHS/WHS in Primary Industries 2
Policy Gap 3
Analysis 4
Conclusion 5
Assessment 2- Role Play 6
Feedback 7
Assessment 4- Project Report 8
Policy Statement 8
Policies 8
Allow for Induction 9
Details Dissemination and Implementation 9
Processes for Hazards Identification 9
Allows for Identification of Occupational Injury and Disease 9
References 10
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Assessment1- General Report
Introduction
The effectiveness of OHS/WHS policies which are supposed to distribute responsibilities and
legislate aiming for occupational health and safety, will be dealt as an issue in the following
report (Claxton, 2017). While it is the responsibility of the management, owner, workers,
suppliers to establish and maintain a safe and healthy working conditions, it also requires to be
administered by the provincial legislation according to the basic guideline along with improving
and finding flaws immanent in the guideline itself.
Effectiveness of OHS/WHS in Primary Industries
This part of the general report will deal with the effectiveness of OHS/WHS in Allan Barnett
Fishing Co, which falls under primary industries, dealing with wild catch fisheries in Tasmania
and producing for domestic and international market (Jennings, 2016). It involves health and
security issues of workers as well as the workplace. The acts require the employers to make their
workers aware about some basic tenets of the workplace to equip them to control the hazards
they may face in the concerned workplace, including:
● Placing restricted and prohibited areas
● What should be done in case of emergency fire;
● Direction for gathering first aid facility;
● Hazards that may occur in what places;
For instance,Theorganisation or you are entitled to review and provide the information regarding
the Chemicals that can be used to ensure safety with the workplace Thus the guideline
necessarily comes with basic workplace rights for the workers involved. The legislation gives the
worker three rights:
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● Preserved right of refusing certain work which one believes doobie dangerous to them
self
● Gathering enough opportunity to ensure workers are safe in their workplace
● Right to know the controlling process of hazard.
It is not a punishable offence for using of the right but an employer will always have the
responsibility of justification to any action taken against a Walker within the workplace in terms
of Health and safety act. This does not merely fall under the duties of the workers but extends to
the duties and accountabilities of the management officials. Executives and the officers that
include the directors of the company, the managers of the farm and the partners initiate towards
the development of the decisions that impact the substantial part or a whole part of business.
According to Hofmann, Burke & Zohar (2017), it is important to keep the officers in charge
totally informed regarding the management of WHS for ensuring the fact that the PCBU tends to
fulfill its responsibilities in relation to safety and health. Some of the responsibilities or the
duties of Officers includes some of the essential responsibility to
(a) keep informed with a cutting-edge information of WHS matters;
b) comprehend dangers and uncertainties significant to the homestead business;
c) guarantee the utilization of proper assets and procedures to dispose of or limit dangers to
wellbeing and security;
(d) guarantee a framework is utilized to get, consider and react to data on perils and dangers
timelily;
(e) guarantee they actualize forms for consenting to any WHS obligation (e.g. reports remarkable
occurrences, counsels with laborers, consents to sees, gives preparing and guidance and so forth)
(f) affirm that the majority of this is being finished.
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