Ensure a Safe Workplace for a Work Area

This article provides information on ensuring a safe workplace for a work area. It covers topics such as WHS/OHS Act and Regulations, risk assessment and control, hierarchy of control, reporting WHS incidents, and more. The article also includes examples and references to relevant laws and regulations.

ENSURE A SAFE
WORKPLACE FOR
A WORK AREA

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Q1 Identify and document the title and date of the WHS/OHS Act and Regulation for the state in
which you are located.
Answer- For Tasmania, Australia WHS, Work Health and Safety Regulations 2012 were
amended in the year 2021 December.
It came into effect on 1/1/2013 and the main aim of the act is to enhance health consciousness in
the nation and providing strong norms (Borchers-Arriagada, et.al. 2020)
Q2 Identify the purpose of a WHS code of practice and give an example.
Answer- The policy is laid down to grow management consultants so can hike their security
measures. for ensuring safety of workers in the nation it was essential for the government to
come up with such regulation which can trunk out better results. To provide healthy and safe
workplace is a burning responsibility so with this regard fabrication of such law was essential.
encouraging active participation of employees and hiking cooperative practices in organisations.
reducing possibilities of risks at workplace in order to make it safe and attractive place to
inculcate efforts.
For example- Grow management consultants which is having business of management
consultancy. there are number of people working with different designation such as CEO,
Operation manager, Senior management consultants, and some other officers of administration.in
the entity CEO identified areas and applied norms and practices suggested by WHS act 2012
(Pascoe, Hutton, 2020)
Q3 Outline the factors that must be taken into account in determining control measures for
hazardous manual tasks as stated in the model Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011.
Answer- Hazardous manual tasks are such tasks which are performed by a human being by
using its manual efforts. such as using parts of body, making move, holding any objective etc.
these activities are known as manual tasks. in short pushing, lifting and pulling are part of
manual tasks. work design, or work management, tools, objects handled, physical work
environment, work tasks, etc. are to be considered.

Q4. Define the term duty holder under WHS/OHS legislation and the primary duty of care of a
PCBU under WHS legislation.
Answer- The person who has duty or work health and safety under the WHS act which consists,
importer supplier installer, designer, manufacture, PCBU, plant installer etc.
these are the duties of PCBU- (SafeWork, 2020)
 maintaining safe working environment.
 maintaining safe plant.
 ensuring safe use, storage and handling of plants.
 instructing for training and information in order to restrict risks.
The above suggested steps can be taken in order to assess risks at workplace, this would be
helping organization to not only identify its risks but at the same time mitigation and address can
be ensured. Risk assessment process is considered very hectic and serious since a minute mistake
may cause severe damages to the organisation.
Q5 Outline two examples of a WHS policy that a business may implement.
Answer- These are two examples of WHS policies a business may implement-
1) Safe system installation at work.
2) Keeping plants and equipment in safe condition.
The above WHS polices may get installed by an organisation in order to practise WHS and
reducing any occurrence of risk at workplace. These practices will help an organisation to carry
out its operations without any risk or with less possibility of risks.
Q6 Explain the process of risk assessment and control in workplace health and safety.
Answer- The process of risk assessment and control is as below-
 Hazards would be identified.
 Who is most likely to be harmed by the hazards will be evaluated.
 Risk assessment has to be carried out where volume, possibility of risk will be
deciphered.
 Record of findings will be kept in order to manage such information.
 Reviewing risk assessment and as per requirements proper decisions would be taken into
practise.

Q7 Explain three ways in which hazards can be identified in the workplace.
Answer- These are the three ways to identify hazards at workplace-
1. This is responsibility of staff to perceive its working environment and making assessment
of risk.
2. Operations manager will be keeping such Hazard register to identify risk.
3. Risk ratings can be kept and can be inculcated to risk management plan.
The above ways can be used to identify weather hazards are there on workplace or not, if it is
there then how to address it can be deciphered only if have traced the issues. the all ways are
essential since are suggested in the law and having potential to mitigate the concerns.
Q8 Describe the purpose of the hierarchy of control and each of the options available from most
effective to least effective. Provide an example for each in terms of how it may be applied in a
workplace.
Answer- The main purpose of the hierarchy of control is to carry out risk control in an effective
manner in order to prevent risks.
 It ensures systematic approach to execute control mechanism in order to manage risk at
workplace, also eradicate sort of potential trouble making elements (Power, 2019)
 There is a well-structured mechanism works which paves way to manage all activities to
control risks and reduces possibility of any mishap.
 In an organisation there may be implemented a hierarchy in which roles would be
decided so can manage the risk.
 On the other hands such structure must have rights and responsibilities on each and every
position in order to control and reduce risk.
 For applying the above shared purposes, it can be concluded that there must be paid
proper focus to get the tasks completed.
Q 9 Give two reasons why it is important to report WHS incidents within the workplace to
relevant persons and identify at least two position holders to whom incidents may be reported.
Answer- 1) This is very much essential to report WHS incidents since without reporting it
cannot be controlled properly and some catastrophe may also take place.

2) It aids to prevent severe accidents and hiking workplace safety and health practises. by
reporting on time proper actions can be taken and can carry out risk settlement process as needed
in order to restrict such risky incidents. Gives greater understanding of the risk. it helps to
develop healthy and at least safety minded organisational culture. even some minor incidents
could be prevented.
So there are a range of benefits it brings to the organization. these two position holder may get
reported about such WHS incidents-
WHS site officer, and Supervisor. These two people may get informed since they are holding
such position where they may take immediate actions to prevent such predicaments.
Q10 Identify the three events that are defined as ‘notifiable incidents’ and the period of time for
which employers must keep records of these incident?
Answer- These are those three notifiable incidents- these incidents are considered drastic in
nature so there are rigours need to keep records for a pre-intended time duration in order to fulfil
legal requirements.
1 death of a person.
2 any form of serious injury or severe illness.
3 dangerous incidents.
As per the section 38(7) from the dates of such incidents notified, it would be kept for at least
five years. for this time frame the records would be kept as it has been suggested in the law
(SafeWork, 2020)
Q11 Within what time period must an employer notify their worker’s compensation insurer when
a worker has received a workplace injury?
Answer- it an employee got injured then if having insurance then within 48 hours of the accident
will be informing to the compensation insurer. In Australia the time limit must not cross the brim
of eight business days.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals-
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Pascoe, S., Hutton, T., 2020. Effectiveness of harvest strategies in achieving multiple
management objectives in a multispecies fishery. Australian Journal of Agricultural and
Resource Economics, 64(3). pp.700-723.
Power, J., 2019. Scaffolding shake up. Plumbing Connection, (Summer 2019), pp.70-74.
SafeWork, S. A., 2020. Lift registration (private residences).
SafeWork, S. A., 2020. Mine manager competencies.