Work Health and Safety (WHS) Regulations and Responsibilities

The assignment discusses the Work Health and Safety (WHS) regulations and responsibilities in New South Wales, Australia. It covers the WHS Act 2011, regulations, code of practices, and the roles of SafeWork NSW, employers, employees, supervisors, wardens, and visitors. The document also references various books and journals that provide further information on WHS regulations and responsibilities.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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TASK 1
A 1.1
New south Wales, the act followed is Work Health and safety Act 2011. The regulation is
Work health and safety Regulation 2011, the code given there is NSW code of practices
(Stavropoulos, 2014.). The regulator is SafeWork NSW. The code provides necessary
information and guidance to comply with certain safety and health laws.
A 1.2
There are two agencies of government which are looking to these regulations and
legislation. One is the NSW department of industry, resources and energy, Second one is
SafeWork NSW (Lyons, 2016). These rules and regulations are required to cooperate the risk
associated with the workplace for all the employees and all the associated parties. The primary
law in New South Wales is the Work Health and Safety Act, 2011. This is further supported by
Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011.
A 1.3
There are usually two kind of codes, one is mandatory codes which gives minimum
standard protection to their consumers (Regan, 2015). The second one is voluntary codes, which
are flexible and they can be changed according to the changing industry and needs. The WHS
practices present are;
 Excavation work
 hazardous manual task
 Safely removal of asbestos
 management of electrical risk
 Safe design of structures
 power coating and spray painting
A 1.4
4 documents which are very essential to identify the safe work practices
1. registration with enforcing authorities (Windholz, 2015)
2. foreign workers which are not comfortable with local language
3. Risk assessment
4. Health and safety policies'
5. Information for all the employees
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TASK 2
A 1.5
Responsibilities of co-workers and yourself
 To comply with all the environmental, safety and health regulations
 Clearly observe the sign boards related to health and safety
 use protective equipment and proper engineering control
 To report all the unsafe conditions to supervisor (Windholz, 2015)
 Must participate in health and safety drills
 They should warn the other co-workers regarding the damaged equipments
A 1.6
The responsibilities of PCIBs are;
 Must ensure that the effectiveness should be maintained of the programs run by
university's environmental health and safety.
 They have to make sure that the directors and dean's are taking all the right steps
to their program implementation
 they must implement the program in all the respective departments
A 1.7
Responsibilities of supervisors
 Communicate with their employees regarding the work practices going on are safe or
not (Blewett and et.al., 2014).
 They have to ensure that the operating procedures going on are safe and risk free
 They must take the inspections of self-assessment regularly, and must remove the
deficiencies if there is any.
A 1.8
The wardens are responsible for the development regarding the safety laws and
regulations. They have to determine that all the safe program must apply to all the departments
and provide necessary information to all the specified community with the help of proper
communication system.
A 1.9
The visitor have to make sure that they do not touch any running machinery. They have
to maintain the safe distance from all the workers who are working, so that they will not get
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distracted (Galvin, 2016). The people who are not associated with the work place must follow
the safety sign boards. They should not enter in the areas which are prohibited.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Blewett, V., and et.al., 2014. Strategic engagement hearing the voice of young workers in the
development of the Youth Work Health and Safety Strategy for South Australia.
Galvin, J., 2016. Director and senior management accountability for workplace health and safety.
AusIMM Bulletin, (Feb 2016). p.56.
Lyons, M., 2016. University safety culture: a work-in-progress?. Australian Universities' Review,
The. 58(1). p.45.
Regan, R., 2015. Coal Mine Health and Safety Regulatory and Enforcement Approach, New
South Wales, Australia.
Stavropoulos, S., 2014. Management of workplace health & safety risks in new disability care
arrangements. International Journal of Disability Management. 9.
Windholz, E., 2015. Professional sport, work health and safety law and reluctant regulators.
Windholz, E., 2015. Team-Based Professional Sporting Competitions and Work, Health and
Safety Law: Defining the Boundaries of Responsibility.
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