Improving Work Health and Safety in the Site

This plan outlines the approach to be used in managing work health and safety (WHS) at the site, including identifying and addressing concerns and improving WHS measures. It includes details of the principal contractor, persons at the workplace with WHS responsibilities, and other relevant contacts. The plan also covers the scope of work, WHS policy, and a plan to address concerns and improve WHS measures.

WHS ASSESMMENT TEST
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ASSESSMENT TASK 1
Identify and describe the three main elements to consider when providing induction
training to new workers in an organization1.
 What the new employees need to know to effectively perform their roles within the
organization
 Both support and insights needed by the new employees to fit comfortably in the
organization culture
 What the new employees are required to achieve in a stipulated times
Who are the WHS duty holders in any organization?
They are the people who owe responsibilities under WHS as per the WHS act including the
people conducting business, designers, manufacturers, importers, and suppliers, installers of
plants used at the work, officers and other workers.
Communication and consultation strategies should be put in place so that all workers
understand their responsibilities and the necessity of implementing an effective WHS
management system. What might these strategies include?
 Keeping the communication real
 Ensuring that communication is timely
1 Bluff, Leonard. "Managing work health and safety risks under the national model of WHS legislation." Regulation at Work 10
(2011): 17-21.

 Focusing on consistency
 Tailoring the message to be communicated
 Reinforcing communication
 Encouraging a culture of feedback and
 Empowering organization managers
Some of the WHS human resources that may be required in an organization will include
who?
 Health and safety committee (HSC)
 Health and safety representative (HSR)
 Officer
How does consultation and participation benefit a company?
 Facilitate information sharing relating to workplace health and safety
 Conveying and getting concerns
 Obtaining the views of other employees into consideration
What might be included in determining the appropriate action for identified issues?
 Raising the issue with supervisors
 Supervisor consults with the workers and implements a plan to resolve the issue
 Assistance sought from HRS
 WHS grievance resolution process
 WHS unit contacts

When must employers consult with their workers?
 In the process of identification and assessment of risks arising from work „
 In the process of decision making which regards eliminating and minimizing risks
 Before proposing changes that affect health and safety of workers
 Before making decisions on consultation procedures and resolving safety issues
Please provide at least 5 examples of dangerous occurrences?
 Unintentional ignitions
 Fire involving any substance
 Accidental release or escape of harmful substances
 Collapse of a building
 Overturning, explosion, short circuiting or bursting of work equipment
Changes in the workplace can create new hazards. Identify three types of changes that
might affect the safety of workers?
 Change in processes
 Change in products
 Change in regulations
What are the five categories of control measures for identified risks?
 Assessing the likelihood of risk associated with hazards causing injury
 Investigating the degree of harm expected to result in case of risk
 Asking the relevant worker’s opinions on how to reduce the risk

 Evaluating availability and suitability ways of eliminating and reducing the risks
 Balancing the four factors with the cost of reducing and eliminating hazards
If you identify an inadequacy in risk control measures what should you do?2
 Trying lesser risky option.
 Preventing access to hazards.
 Organizing the work to reduce hazard exposure.
 Issuing protective equipments.
 Providing welfare facilities like first-aids.
 Involving and consulting with workers.
What does ongoing improvement involve?
Continuous improvement is a method used to identify opportunities for reducing waste and
streamlining work. It was formalized by Lean / Agile / Kaizen in business. It is achieved through
periodic examination and improvement of processes to smash bottlenecks and take
advantage of efficient methods.
ASSESMENT TASK 2
List the forms, registers and records that your organization uses to collect information on
WHS incidents, injuries and near misses
2 Bahn, Susanne. "Workplace hazard identification and management: The case of an underground mining operation." Safety
science 57 (2013): 129-137.

 Near miss, incident and hazard report form
 Register of injuries report form
 Accident compensation claim form
 Incident notification form
Analyzing the above forms helps WHS team implement the necessary control measures in
anticipation for similar incidences in future.
What types of work are performed by your organization and within your department or
work area?
 Commercial cleaning
 Air conditioner installation
 Fire extinguisher installation
 Installation of lightning arrestors
What methods could you use to explain WHS legislative and regulatory requirements to
your work group?3
 Risk registers
 Mails
3 Fung and Seneviratne. "Regulatory verification on safe use of cytotoxic drugs in veterinary clinics and animal
hospitals." Australian veterinary journal 94.11 (2016): 400-404.

 Presentations
 Posters
 Informal discussions
 Intranet sites
What types of issues have you discussed in WHS meetings?
 Health and safety issues
 Follow-up actions
What types of follow-up action have been required from those meetings?
 Employers were required to keep equipments in suitable conditions
 Equipment selection to be done with consideration to working conditions
 Work equipments to be assessed before being used to avoid risk on users
 Equipments involving certain risks to be restricted to qualified employees only
 Repairs/modifications on work equipments to be done by qualified employees only;
 Before being exposed to machine operations, employees must be trained thoroughly.
How would you conduct a training needs analysis in your organization?
Step 1: Determining the Desired Business Outcomes
Needs analysis will be involved in this step to articulate the training goals.
Step 2: Linking the desired Business Outcome with the Employee Behavior

Employers will be allowed to identify desired critical competencies of the employees and rated
through a rating scale as shown below. The guiding question will be; How Important Is This for
Successful Job Performance?
1 = Not at all
2 = A little
3 = Somewhat
4 = Considerable
5 = Extremely
Step 3: Identification of Trainable Competencies
Because not every competency requires training to be improved, the list to be focused on will be
produced at this step.
Step 4: Evaluation of Competencies
Employers will determine the competencies of the employers through competency evaluation
and test assessments.
Step 5: Determining Performance Gap
Individual employees will be combined to be assessed on the basis of improvement needs.
Step 6: Prioritizing Training Needs
Data in step 5 will be aggregated in order to realize the areas which need much attention.

Step 7: Determining How to Train
Making use of training priority set above, consideration on the best training in the workforce will
be sought like, On the job training; web-based; classroom; conferences etc.
Step 8: Conducting Cost Benefit Analysis
Consideration on the costs linked with the training method s and the extent to which performance
gaps could be compressed will be done I this step. such factors will include: Required training
time; Training content delivery and Travel and logistical expenses.
Step 9: Planning for Training Evaluation
Employers will decide on how the training will be done. Some of the questions to be evaluated in
this process are: How much did the training improve employees' actual job performance? How
much did the training improve the meeting of business objectives? How much did the training
result in a positive return on its investment? Etc.
What types of WHS training may be required for workers in your organization such as
first-aid training, operating particular types of machinery, getting a forklift drivers license
or coaching and mentoring?
 Giving First-aid
 Safety measures when operating risky machines
 Responding to emergencies

The possible outcomes in your organization if risk controls are inadequate, why might your
organization’s risk control strategies be inadequate4
The organization may run bankrupt as a result of the heavy costs realized after risk strikes the
organization. Risk controls can be inadequate if the managers lack enough knowledge on
workers’ performance and training. Examples of potential work hazards in workplace include.
 Electricity short-circuiting
 Slips, trips and falls at the workplace
 Fire
What methods are used in your workplace to identify hazards? Provide three examples.
 Conducting safety and audit inspections in the workplace
 Carrying out job safety analyses
 Carrying out pre-start discussions on work to be done
Complete the Work Health and Safety Management Plan for your organization
4 Schofield, Toni, Belinda Reeve, and Ron McCallum. "Australian workplace health and safety regulatory approaches to
prosecution: Hegemonising compliance." Journal of Industrial Relations 56.5 (2014): 709-729.

Project information
1.1 Management and review
This WHS Management Plan has been developed to outline the approach to be used in
managing work health and safety (WHS) at the <INSERT NAME OF PROJECT at
<INSERT ADDRESS>.
This plan will:
 Be availed to all the workers and contractors in this site for them to have the
opportunity of reading, understanding, clarifying and asking questions
 Kept in a copy readily available for the entire period of the project
 reviewed regularly throughout the course of this project and revised version will be
availed to all those working on the project regularly
1.2 Principal contractor details
Business name: EVANS&SONS CONTRACTORS
Address: 81-90200
Contact person: EVANS
Work phone: [phone]
Mobile phone: [phone]
Fax: 3456
Email: [e-mail]
ABN: 45

Contract licence number: 2345678
Principal contractor
signature:
Evansk.
1.3 Details of persons at workplace with WHS responsibilities
Name Position WHS responsibilities
Evans Principal contractor  Preparing and implementing WHS
 Ensuring all works are done in a risk
free manner
 Dispute resolution
 Investigating hazard reports
Rose Contractor  Fulfilling PCBU duties
 Complying with WHS plan
 Identifying high risk construction
works
 Following safety policies and site rules

Martin Contractor  Fulfilling PCBU duties
 Complying with WHS plan
 Identifying high risk construction
works
 Following safety policies and site rules
Kelvin Worker  Taking care of own health and safety
 Complying with site policies and
procedures
 Taking care of their conduct not to
affect others.
Donald Worker  Taking care of own health and safety
 Complying with site policies and
procedures
 Taking care of their conduct not to
affect others.
1.4 Other contact details
Client name Address Contact
number
Position WHS responsibilities
GENIUS 98-90200 [phone] CONTRACTO
R
 Fulfilling

PCBU duties
 Complying
with WHS
plan
 Identifying
high risk
construction
works
 Following
safety policies
and site rules
Other
relevant
contacts
Address Contact
number
1.5 Scope of work
Description of project: Flats construction (The project involves the construction of four

residential flats in Sydney )
Location of project: Sydney
Start and finish dates: December 2018-August 2019
2.3 WHS policy
Providing safe and healthy environment
The company will provide safe and healthy environment to its workers, customers and
visitors in the course of their stay within the company premises. The company will commit itself
to ensuring all the operations are carried out in a way that ensures health and safety of all people.
The company will not offer services that may cause harm or accidents to people involved or
around. Any member within the company is expected to be responsible of his or her actions in
regard to health and will be held accountable of his or her actions.
Safety program on staff, property& public
The company will commit itself on strong safety program that protects its staff, property
and the public against accidents. Company employees at any level will be held responsible and
accountable for the company’s overall safety initiatives. Management will therefore support this
program by providing proper equipment, training and procedures. Workers are therefore
responsible in following work safety procedures and improving safety measures.
Safety of the employees

The company will commit itself to protect its employees from injuries and occupational
diseases. This will be achieved through the efforts to provide healthy and safe working
environment. All the supervisors and workers will be required to dedicate themselves to
continued risk reduction within the company premises. Supervisors will be held responsible for
health and safety of the workers under their supervision.
ASSESSMENT TASK 3
You are the site manager and you have just met with your senior manager about concerns
that workers have regarding WHS in the site. Your work area has reported a number of
near misses in the past three months and there have also been five lost time incidents in the
past six months. The safety performance of your work area is declining steadily and you
must urgently address this issue.
Suggest three actions you would take immediately to start addressing declining WHS
performance in your area. Explain why these actions are appropriate and how they could
improve WHS performance on the site.
Getting the opinion of workers about the issue at hand and then ask them to propose some basic
solutions they can think of; this is done to ensure the solution realized favors the employees and
therefore will be much willing to implement it rather than mandating a solution for them.
After agreeing on the solution, monitor the employee's behavior over some time. In other words,
following up on them to ensure that the solution adequately addresses the problem
Lastly, the proposed solution is reinforced by correcting the employees on areas where they seem
to deviate from the proposed solution.

Identify any areas where you may require assistance from WHS experts or specialist
resources. Why would you require this assistance and how could it help to improve WHS
performance?
 Legal matters related to WHS and training programs on WHS performance because some
of these areas require more attention from the top management and handling them
individually can be dangerous.
Identify a range of workplace actions that could be implemented to enhance individual and
team understanding of WHS responsibilities.
 Preparing action plans
 Implementing the plans
 Monitoring and reviewing the actions
 Identifying improvements where necessary
Identify at least one improvement you could make on the current WHS procedure.
 Establishing First Aid procedures
 Improving risk reporting system- to ensure employees report accidents directly
Identify two methods you could use to assess the level of compliance with WHS legislative
requirements and organizational policy and procedures in your work area. Why is this
important element of WHS performance?

 How the WHS legislations, regulations and codes of practice are embedded within the
organization policies and procedures. It is important because it will ensure organization
policies and procedures are applied effectively and comply with legislatives
 Requirements. Structured reviews enable the organization to fulfil internal and external
reporting requirements
Bibliography
1. Bluff, Leonard. "Managing work health and safety risks under the national model of
WHS legislation." Regulation at Work 10 (2011): 17-21.
2. Bahn, Susanne. "Workplace hazard identification and management: The case of an
underground mining operation." Safety science 57 (2013): 129-137.
3. Fung and Seneviratne. "Regulatory verification on safe use of cytotoxic drugs in
veterinary clinics and animal hospitals." Australian veterinary journal 94.11
(2016): 400-404.
4. Schofield, Toni, Belinda Reeve, and Ron McCallum. "Australian workplace health and
safety regulatory approaches to prosecution: Hegemonising compliance." Journal
of Industrial Relations 56.5 (2014): 709-729.