WHS Management System and Risk Assessment - BSBWHS501

This assignment focuses on establishing and maintaining WHS management systems within the context of Australian Hardware and its Wollongong store. It covers the development and modification of WHS policies, including security and protection instructions, and the identification of duty holders and their responsibilities. The assignment details the resources required for implementation, including financial, physical, and human resources. It also includes a revised WHSMS plan, addressing legal and organizational requirements, risk assessment processes, and hazard identification. The document also includes a detailed analysis of the company's approach to risk administration and the relevant legislations, codes of practice, and processes for hazard identification and risk evaluation.

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Contents
Assessment 1...................................................................................................................................3
Assessment 2...................................................................................................................................9
Part A...........................................................................................................................................9
Part B.........................................................................................................................................11
Assessment 3.................................................................................................................................16
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Assessment 1
3.
a. The policies and process to be included within WHS management system at Australian
Hardware includes security and protection instructions for workforce so as to minimise the
uncertainty from injuries and accidents at work. This WHS management system will even
include protection behaviour benchmarks that need to be practised by staffs working at
Australian Hardware, the expectations from staffs in terms of welfare and security within the
firm, the procedure to be practiced in events of accident reporting as well as process to be
practiced in context of incorporation WHS management systems across all Australian Hardware
outlets.
b. The adaptations and modifications which are needed within current policies and process are
integration of security instructions and expectations for all workers at Australian Hardware so as
to lessen the occurrence of accidents and injuries at work. It even needs to include controlling
and assessment planning within the WHS management policy systems so as to insure that all
workers adhere to security direction of the firm and also to insure that Australian Hardware
company remains aware of any concerns which are encountered by their workers so that they can
undertake essential actions or remedies to insure that their workers do not encounter any issue in
context to adherence with the WHS management policies of the firm. The modifications which
are needed within the current policies and process are that the updated policies and process of the
firm will involve incorporation planning for complete WHS management system of all the
outlets of Australian Hardware.
c. The duties, responsibilities and accountabilities needed for implementation of updated policies
and process will be as mentioned:
Concerned
personnel
Duties Responsibilities Accountabilities
WHS manager Establishing and Recognising shortfall The WHS manager of
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design WHS
management planning
within the current
WHS management
planning.
Recognising security
requirement and
expectations of
workers
Creating updated
WHS management
planning
incorporating
measures to overcome
shortfalls that were
identified within
current planning and
security requirements
of the workers.
the firm is responsible
for undertaking
essential actions in
event of any concern
that is recognised
within the WHS
management planning
Store supervisor Executing the WHS
policies
Guiding and
conveying awareness
amongst the workers
of the firm in context
to security needs
Offering training and
induction assistance to
workers of the firm
Supporting the
workers of the firm to
adopt WHS policies
of the firm
The store supervisor
of all Australian
Hardware outlets are
accountable for
insuring that all their
workers are aware of
the consequences and
outcomes of WHS
policies in the
workplace.
Workers Adherence to WHS
instructions
Adhering with WHS
policies of the firm
The workers of the
firm are responsible to
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Adhering with
security instructions
of the enterprise
Reporting to the store
supervisor of firm in
event of any concern
encountered while
adhering with WHS
policies
insure that their health
and welfare within
workplace is secured
by practise of safety
instruction’s.
d. The physical resources that are needed for execution of the WHS management planning of the
firm is the current WHS policy, documentations of the firm regarding the security requisites of
the workers and sample of business planning and operational plan of the enterprise. Whereas the
financial resources that are needed for execution of the WHS management planning of the
enterprise are sufficient budget and capital allocation for development and execution of the WHS
management planning and the documentations regarding the financial planning of the firm.
Further the human resource personnel’s that are needed for execution of the updated WHS
management planning at Australian Hardware are WHS compliance supervisor, WHS officers of
the enterprise and industrial experts who have awareness and knowhow about the establishment
of WHS policies and process.
4. The modifications of WHS policy at Wollongong stores is as mentioned:
Purpose- the aim of this policy is to insure that all the practices of the firm are conducted in a
secured way which adheres with the Australian Hardware’s ethical and legislation obligations for
the arrangement and maintenance of secured workplace. The firm identifies its accountability for
offering a healthy and secured working condition for their workers, contractors, clients and
visitants. Australian Hardware holds dedicated to insure the continued welfare of their
stakeholders and to insure that all of their workers are secured from injuries and health
uncertainty while carrying out their regular activities at work.
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Scope- the scope of the policy includes each and every worker, contractor, client of Australian
Hardware- Wollongong store.
Responsibility- the duty of the execution of the WHS policy underlies on the workers and
authorities of the enterprise regarding arrangement of secured conditions at workplace of the
firm.
The authorities of Wollongong are accountable for:
 Giving and maintaining a secured and healthy condition at workplace
 Offering training and assistance to the workers of the firm regarding adherence with the
WHS instructions of the enterprise
 Enabling arrangement of sufficient resources so as to insure that the security purposes
and scope of the firm are delivered
 Consulting with workers of the firm regarding consideration of their health and security
requirements and undertaking essential amendment to the policy based on the requisite of
the workers
The individual workers of Wollongong are accountable for:
 Adhering with the WHS policy of the firm
 Practising all the security directives of the firm as mentioned within the WHS policy
 Supporting other workers of the firm in practising the security instructions of the firm
 Reporting any problem encountered while adhering with the WHS policy and process of
the enterprise
 Insuring that their individual health and wellbeing of other workers are not adversely
influenced by the consumption of drugs and alcohol
Significant laws/ protocols-
 Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW)
 AS/NZS 4804:2001 Occupational health and safety management system- common
instructions on principles, process and supporting methods.
Revised/Authorized- Marcus North (WHS Manager, Wollongong)
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Health and safety management system principles and goals:
 Insuring a workplace which is secured and healthy
 Insuring legitimate and ethical adherence with all relevant standards
 Consulting the workers and concerned people regarding health and security concerns
 Identification of hazard and uncertainties which are associated while conducting regular
activities at workplace
 Giving needed assistance and training to workers regarding adherence to security
instructions and WHS policies of the firm
 Giving information to the workers and people of the firm regarding how to retain the
security values of the firm
 Insuring the wellbeing of the vendors and clients who visit the Wollongong and
Australian Hardware outlets of the firm
 Establishing and setting clear performance objectives of the enterprise regarding
elimination and control of health risks and injuries at the workplace for all the staffs,
contractors and others who visit the outlets of the firm
 Incorporation of the WHS management system of all the outlets of Australian Hardware
and Wollongong stores
 Developing and dedicating to the heath and security management system of the firm and
insuring continued development of the WHS policy of the enterprise by maintaining
regular audits and checks.
5.
Introduction
The WHSMS is a planning that is established to maintain plans, actions and process to deal with
health and security at workplace. In this report a revised WHSMS plan is proposed which is
detailed below.
Discussion
a. The attributes of the proposed WHSMS involving the policies and needed modification are as
mentioned:
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 The suggested WHSMS will involve a security planning and safety instructions for all the
workers and people regarding ways and behaviour to practice to avoid accident, disasters
and injuries
 The suggested WHSMS will include all inputs regarding the training and induction
scheme that will aid the workers and others in the firm to adhere with the WHS policy of
the enterprise
 The suggested WHSMS will also include inputs regarding the controlling and
maintenance planning which will be in place for the WHS policy of the enterprise
 The proposed WHSMS will contain all inputs regarding the supervision arrangements
and schedules which will be undertaken to identify concerns faced within the WHS
policy of the enterprise
 The proposed WHSMS will also include inputs in context to the reporting arrangement
that will be practiced for reporting the WHS events or accident at workplace and the
adherence plan of the firm towards the WHS policy.
 The revised policies which will be executed within the current WHS policy of the firm
are security planning and safety instructions which will explain all course of measures
and approaches that need to be undertaken by workers and people within the firm
 The modification that will be made within the current policy of the firm will be in context
to wellbeing of the clients and vendors who will visit the outlets of the firm
b. The suggested WHSMS delivers the legal requisites as the proposed plan adheres with all the
workplace health and security guidelines and principles maintained within the WHS ACT of the
enterprise. Also the suggested WHSMS obliges to legal requisite as it complies to all domains of
workplace health and security measures that promotes the welfare of the people within the firm.
The duty personnel’s of the WHSMS are the WHS officer of the firm who will be accountable
for establishing the WHSMS planning of the firm, store supervisor who will be accountable to
insure that the planning is being executed in the different stores of the firm and staffs and
workers who will be accountable to practice the instructions of the WHSMS as written in the
system.
c. The suggested WHSMS deliver the organisational requisites as it aids in maintaining and
encouraging the health and security of all the staffs working within the enterprise which is one of
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the most vital goals of the firm. Also the suggested WHSMS delivers the organisational requisite
as the overall cost of establishing and executing the WHSMS planning within the enterprise is 1
million dollars which meets the budget limitation of the firm.
Resources Cost for the system ($
per hr)
Senior manager 150
Store supervisor 70
Team leaders 50
Workers 50
WHS consultants 80
Training room 60
Conclusion
Thus it can be summarised that proposed WHSMS planning is developed based on legal and
code of practice requisite which will help to deliver all the responsibilities of the firm.
Assessment 2
Part A
3.
a). The organisation’s approach to WHS risk administration is that the risk governance planning
of the firm will support in the recognition of all potential uncertainties which are corelated with
the enterprise and subsequently in adopting measures to address and resolve the identified risks.
Further, the organisational approach to legal adherence defines that the firm is dedicated to
deliver all the significant legal and ethical liabilities that are related to the WHS policy of the
firm so as to maintain strong support to encourage health and wellbeing of the workers of the
firm.
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b) The significant legislations that are related to the risk management planning of the firm
includes Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW) and AS/NZS 4804:2001 Occupational health
and safety management system- common instructions for propositions, arrangement and support
of health and safety techniques. The codes of practise that are related with the risk administration
planning of the firm are as mentioned:
 The risk governance planning of the firm should be conveyed to all the employees and
people of the firm
 The risk governance planning of the enterprise should be often assessed so as to insure its
efficacy
 The risk governance planning of the firm will undertake into consideration the stress and
anxieties that are developed amongst the workers due to their regular practices at work
c). The process for recognising hazard is to carry out safety audit and evaluation within the firm
and even gather all inputs from every worker and people within the enterprise regarding the
hazards and risks that are likely encountered by them during their regular activities at work. Also
the process for evaluation and monitoring of risks includes recognising the health and wellbeing
uncertainties that are linked with risks to workers of the firm and then developing proper
measures and action plans to avert these uncertainties and the adverse outcomes that are related
to these uncertainties.
d). The reference to hierarchy of control can be origin from the operational and business
planning of the enterprise which supports in detailing the hierarchy of control within the firm and
in event of reference to risk administration the same hierarchy can be practised. The process for
utilising the hierarchy of control within the firm to control risk management will be same alike
any other procedure of the firm which can be originated from the operation and business plan of
the firm.
e). In order to enhance the effectiveness of the WHS policy of the firm, they need to adhere to
the consultation requisites as documented under the WHS ACT, in which the firm can look for
consultation from the industrial experts and other experienced people to insure that the
effectiveness of the WHS policy of the enterprise is as per standards and also to insure
efficacious legal adherence.
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4. a) The template and the procedure to collect inputs on hazards, accidents and action measures
undertaken are as mentioned:
Process for gathering inputs related to hazards and accidents are as mentioned:
 Gathering inputs related to the risk
 Evaluating the likelihood and seriousness of the risks
 Gathering inputs related to the health consequences of the risks
 Considering the likelihood of risk to occur
 Recognising the causes for the manifestation of the risk
 Considering the origins of the risks
The template for action measures to be undertaken is as mentioned:
Name of worker
injured
Where the event
materialised
What was the
instant measure
undertaken
Who administered
the additional
treatment plan
Is preventive
action undertaken
to prevent
analogous actions
Part B
The workers concerns that are recognised are as mentioned:
 Physical injuries manifested because of lifting of outdoor furniture and hardware
materials in warehouses and within customer service floor
 Uncertainty related to dealing with hazardous goods for forklift workers, drivers and
customer support workers of the firm
The measures that are in place to control the uncertainties are all detailed in a common way for
all the workers and does not mentions the measures that the workers and people within the firm
must practice so as to eliminate the different uncertainties which were recognised within the
firm.
As part of the WHS risk administration for the consideration of safe storage of petrol, turpentine,
poisons, paints etc. the plan and execution which will be undertaken is in consultation with the
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Work Cover authorities and these will determine distinct storage facilities for the poisonous and
inflammable goods with sufficient fire safety actions and with adequate labelling of goods so that
the workers are conscious of the hazard and risks related to these materials.
As a part of he WHS risk administration or legislation for the consideration of the process for
safely commanding traffic in warehouse spaces, the arrangement and execution which will be
undertaken in consultation with the Work Cover authorities will include fitting of the CCTV
cameras within the warehouse space so as to monitor the movement of workers or people from
remote area and also to develop a traffic administration framework in the warehouse region for
the management of traffic.
Upon meeting with the Wollongong store supervisor and informing him related to the problems
encountered by the staffs, the different measures and actions that can be undertaken with the
Wollongong store manager to eliminate these issues will be as mentioned:
 Offering a restriction range for weight that can be manually lifted by staffs and the
weights which surpasses the mentioned range need to be lifted with aid of machines
 No staffs above the age of 50 years will be permitted to manually lift any kind of weights.
 Giving specialised gears and accessories to the fork lift operators, drivers and other
workers during working with and handling of hazardous materials
 There will be security and medical officer within the firm to aid the employees and make
them aware of specific technique to lower occurrence of physical injuries and slips.
The process to access and document measures so as to monitor and govern the WHS risks that
can be conveyed to the store supervisor are as mentioned:
Process for gathering of inputs regarding hazards and accidents are:
 Gathering inputs related to the risk
 Evaluating the likelihood and seriousness of the risks
 Gathering inputs related to the health and safety outcomes of the risk
 Considering the likelihood of manifestation of risks
 Recognising causes for occurrence of the risk
 Considering the origin of the risk
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The template for measures undertaken is as given:
Name of Staff
harmed
Where the event
took place
What was the
spontaneous
measure taken
Who commanded
further therapy
planning
Is preventive
action taken for
avoiding similar
events in future
The expert suggestion which was attained in this context was that in order to assess the
seriousness of the uncertainty it is very vital to consider the scope of occurrence or manifestation
of the risk within the firm otherwise appropriate action steps cannot be undertaken to prevent the
occurrence of these risks in future period.
The timeline for execution of measures to control the risk is 10 days and the resources needed
are WHS policy documentation of the firm, business and operation plan of the firm, risk
administration planning, financial documents of the firm and WHS officer of the firm.
The new procedure to be established is the risk evaluation process.
The earlier process emphasised only on recognition of the risk and development of the risk
administration planning but the existing procedure will engage evaluation process for the risk
prior to undertaking proper action measures.
In order to convey the amendments to the workers and people within the firm at least one
meeting in advance will be arranged with them. The approaches to be undertaken to access the
inputs and to ease understanding all workers and people participating in the meeting will be
given individual copies of the revised or new WHS policy documentation of the firm.
The ongoing regular monitoring procedure which will be practised are as mentioned:
 Carrying out regular audit every month
 Recognising any concern encountered by the employees
 Gathering feedback and suggestion from the people and workers
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The record keeping and reporting measures that will be practiced for supporting the adherence
needs and organisational WHS performance review are efficaciously maintaining documentation
of all WHS events occurring within the workplace and reporting them by maintaining the
mentioned format and reporting on quarterly basis regarding the attainment of the WHS policy
with the legal and ethical requisites.
Risk management policy and procedure document:
Purpose: insuring risk management is integral, visible part of continued management practice
Principles: administering risk is vital to successful delivery and Wollongong is responsible to
meet high quality standard and is dedicated to executing program wide risk administration
culture by adopting suitable practise in identification, assessment and efficacious administration.
Efficacious risk administration will support in successful fulfilment of program by:
 Aiding workers to recognise and deal with threats and scope significant to objectives
 Lessing threats to health and safety
 Offering clear evidence to all stakeholders to understand and control risks
 Improving decision to promote discussion and recognition of risks
 Clarifying legal requisite
Applicability, execution and resources : this policy applies to all level of Wollongong and
execution with workers being through WHS risk management system. Wollongong will insure
availability of resource required for execution of policy, convey it and insure that it remains
efficacious and significant through frequent review and revisions.
The implementation plan for control and monitoring of risk will include:
 Identifying the risk managed such as how and which risk is dealt with
 Estimating the likelihood, consequence, proximity and modification for each risk
identified and assessing the overall impact of risk so that forecasted risk is known and
contrasted against tolerance levels
 Developing proper response
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 Monitoring, controlling the risk, identifying person responsible to deal with risk and
report on developments
Risk treatment record
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Assessment 3
5.
Introduction
As maintaining records in proper manner is essential for any business so in this report some
recommendations are provided to enhance recordkeeping practices at Australian Hardware along
with relevant justification.
Discussion
The suggestion to the Australian Hardware for enhancing their efficacy of the WHS policy
within the firm:
 The training and induction session related to workplace health and security can be
arranged by external trainers who specialise in workplace health and security practices
and approaches. It is needed to offer proper knowhow related to wellbeing measures and
prevention steps undertaken during regular workplace activities to encourage safety of
workers
 The documentation related to the workplace health and security can be stored
electronically rather than manually so as to insure they are stored accurately and safely
and can be ingress in future. It is suggested because it can act as reference during further
WHS policy development which can support in adherence to legal needs.
 Offering incentives and rewards to workers for practising all WHS instructions under
WHS ACT 2011 and for attaining the organisational objectives related to encouragement
of safety and wellbeing. This is suggested because workers can be kept inspired to
maintain safety for themselves and for others in workplace which can include security
and welfare for all.
Conclusion
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Hence it can be summarised that by practising the recommended steps, Australian Hardware will
improve their existing practices of recordkeeping to maintain ease and consistency.
6.
a) In order to execute the identified suggestions within the Australian Hardware the amendment
that will be needed will be towards the current WHS policy of the firm and for this regular
meetings will be conducted with workers, managers and other relevant stakeholders so as to offer
them with essential knowhow related to modification and the gains and logic that are related with
these amendments.
In order to insure the success of the plan, consistent reviews will be arranged and accordingly
reported so as to insure adherence to legal requisites.
b). The timeline for executing action steps to monitor and manage the risk will be 15 days and
the resources needed will be WHS policy of the firm, business and operation planning of firm,
financial documentation as well as WHS supervisor and external trainers.
c). The execution planning are compatible with the suggestion and justification with regard to
adherence to organisational requisites as the execution planning is successful to attain the
primary purpose of Australian Hardware regarding maintaining their WHS principles in the firm.
7.
The training and safety induction program will be arranged by external trainers who are
specialised in workplace health and safety practices and provisions and the training will comply
to the current policies and process as its primary goal is to insure security of workers during
work.
The training and security program complies with the suggestion which has been identified earlier
and will support in resolving performance concerns. For example, to lessen physical risk, a
revised process has been established which defines that weights that surpass a mentioned range
need not be lifted manually, rather be lifted through machines. Also workers beyond 50 years of
age need not be permitted to lift any form of weights which will assist to reduce physical risks.
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The training and safety induction session complies will overall objective and purpose as the goal
of this program is to offer knowhow to the workers related to different risks that are likely
related to their regular work activities and even making them aware about safety measures and
actions that can be practiced in event of risks, which will considerably support to insure adequate
health and security of workers which is the primary target of the firm.
The target audience of the training and safety induction program of Australian Hardware are the
drivers and the warehouse workers.
The training and safety induction program complies to WHS laws, code of practise or benchmark
as one of the main goal of WHS regulation is to make workers conscious about different safety
principle that are in place for avoiding risk and incident as well as make workers aware about
how to prevent these risks. Also the aim of training session is to offer knowhow to the employees
related to risks and its administration procedure that are in place at Australian Hardware.
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