BSBWHS501 Ensure a Safe Workplace: WHS Risk Management Analysis

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BSBWHS501 Ensure a safe workplace
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WHS risk management analysis
Task 1
Procedures and policies to be followed:
 Selection and recruitment policy: ensure that the best personnel are employed.
These people will ensure the culture, values, and goals of WHS are followed.
 Training procedure: no discrimination while training the employees.
 Consultation criteria: ensure employees are consulted when any safety systems
are to be implemented (Baird, 2016). Proper consultation strategies are to be put in place.
 WHSMS policy: provide risk evaluation assessments, conduct surveys to
identify hazards and also ensure full control of these hazards.
 Record keeping policy: Proper record keeping and ensuring records are easy
to retrieve. These policies will also ensure there are confidentiality, privacy and adequate
security to documents.
Amendments and adaptions for the policies
 There will be a transparent, professional, timely selection and recruitment of
employees (Robson, 2007). The process of recruitment will be highly scrutinized to ensure
there is no discrimination against people.
 Safety representatives of WHS systems must be selected to represent the
workers in the organization.
 Workers in the organization must be consulted to explain how safety or health
issues are going on in the organization.
 In case of reasonable problems from the workers about their health or safety
matters, then they should be offered the right to stop operating since their health is the utmost
concern.

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 Inspectors should be appointed so that in case a dispute arises regarding a
certain operation on WHS systems the party affected will be assisted.
 Appointing of professionals or experts in the safety department should also be
a topmost task by the company (Akpan, 2011). These people will act as inspectors capable of
identifying and preventing hazardous events. They should be issued with company identity
cards with their names and roles for easier identification.
Roles, Responsibilities and accountabilities
The table below will help in classifying the different roles of all the people in the
organization.
Role Responsibilities Accountabilities
Senior managers Ensuring all the policies and procedures in the
organization are implemented effectively and aid
the senior supervisors in executing operations as
well as evaluating their operations
Chief Executive
Officer
Store managers Ensuring all the policies and procedures effected
comply with the area conduct. This will be done
by supervising and offering adequate training to
the employees.
Provide employee consultation with regard to their
health and safety conditions.
COO
Employees Abide by the policies and procedures in WHS that
will ensure they have the best safety conditions.
managers
Contractors Comply with the procedures of the organization as
well as ensuring proper health and safety measures
are put in place.
managers
Financial and human resources for effective health and safety management

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Some of the financial resources that will ensure effective management of health and
safety will include the following:
 Costs to acquire new personnel.
 Cleaning costs.
 Training costs.
 Machinery replacement costs.
 Storage costs.
Some of the human resources will include the following:
 Training personnel
 Risk assessors
 Consultants
 Store managers
 Consultants
WHSMS in Australian Hardware, Wollongong
o The performance management:
At the end of each probation duration, each and every employee is handed his/her
own performance plan (Conghua Xue, 2017). Later on, they will be given the personal
review on every July or August for the rest of their years in the organization.
Employee performance assessments are done twice annually. A review did either
January or February assesses the progress of each employee achievements towards his/her
on plan targets.
o Accidents and emergency issues management: