Work Health and Safety: A Comprehensive Guide to Risk Management and Compliance

Work health and safety
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Table of Contents
Task 1..............................................................................................................................................3
Written questions...........................................................................................................................3
Task 3..............................................................................................................................................9
Case Studies....................................................................................................................................9
Case study 1....................................................................................................................................9
Case study 2..................................................................................................................................11
Task 4............................................................................................................................................13
Safety audit project......................................................................................................................13
Safety Consultation Strategy Planner....................................................................................13
Team information need identification....................................................................................14
Task 5............................................................................................................................................17
Participate in consultation process.............................................................................................17
References.....................................................................................................................................20
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Task 1
Written questions
QUESTION 1
Access the current WHS legislation in your State or Territory and describe the obligations of
each of the parties below:
Employees: worker must avoid the injury and do not involve in damaging the property and plan.
The worker must obey all the instruction given to the worker including wearing safety equipment
while working and report to the higher official in case of occurrence of any hazard.
Supervisor: supervisor must supervise their subordinate properly. The supervisor must respect
the worker and do not criticize their worker. Supervisors do not force its worker to do work.
Manager: the manager is responsible to provide a better and safer working atmosphere to their
worker. They provide proper hazard equipment to their worker.
QUESTION 2
How would you provide WHS information (obligations, policies, and procedures) to staff in your
workgroup and how will you manage adherence to associated policies and procedures?
The information related to safety and health policy could be provided to the worker by providing
proper training for hazard. Hoarding related to safety instruction are disseminated on the walls
of the working site. Safety drills were conducted at a regular interval to train the worker for the
disaster.
QUESTION 3
What are workplace information systems employed in workplaces to help control and manage
work risks and hazards? Identify at least five.
Workplace information system deal with all the information requires for controlling the risk.
These are
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1. Classification of machinery for knowing the prone of the hazard on the equipment
2. Labeling safety instruction on all the machinery
3. Educate the worker for the hazard
QUESTION 4
In the area of WHS risk management, define the hierarchy of control and describe how you
would use these control measures.
The following hierarchy is possible to control the hazard
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personal
proctective
equipment:
PPE is
provided to all
the worker
Management
Control:
control the
working operation
to avoid hazard
Control:
control the hazard
by engineering
procedure
Replace:
restore the hazard
Remove hazard:
various procedure
involve to remove
the hazard
physically

Here the effectiveness of the various processes to control the hazard is given by arrow. A more
effective process is at the head of the arrow.
QUESTION 5
Aside from the WHS Act, identify at least three other acts, standards or codes of practice that
guide your actions in relation to workplace safety
Electric safety act, 2002: this is an active set for auditing electric safety.
Australian standard, 1851: this is a standard set for fire safety within the organization
HB 76: it is the law set up for hazardous goods like radioactive goods etc. it involves the
licensing program, safety guide, amount of hazardous goods manufactures or use.
QUESTION 6
In your state or territory, when are organizations required to establish a health and safety
committee? Explain your answer
The organization is required to establish a health and safety community when the organization is
prone for the occurrence of the hazard or its infrastructure is built in a disaster-prone area or the
organization is employing too many workers. The health and community are responsible for
improving health facility in the organization.
QUESTION 7
True or false? ”Health and safety representatives do not require formal training, they simply use
common sense when making decisions.” Explain your answer
False, Science there were many issues related to health and safety in an organization and a
common person does not know all the laws related to health and safety that is why a proper
training is required. The life of each worker is important and an organization does not afford to
lose its worker due to health and hazard.
QUESTION 8
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True or false? "Once health and safety policies and procedures have been written, they should
never be altered, even if they are ambiguous and confusing." Explain your answer
False, science the organization always introduce new machinery and process for working in the
organization that is why organization have to tally its health and safety procedure from time to
time. The proper hazard drill in an organization helps the worker to clarify al the doubt on the
new safety policies
QUESTION 9
Apart from the legislative requirements, describe in your own words why you believe it is
important for organizations to adopt a collaborative and consultative approach to managing
occupational health and safety
Science the maximum operational work is done by the worker and they gain an additional
experience to work on machinery than the managing team. They were most prone to struck with
an accident so a joint collaboration of worker, manager, an executive is required to safeguard
from a hazard.
QUESTION 10
How would you suggest that organizations who are not required to establish a health and safety
committee, undertake the following?
a) Provide information to work for teams on identified hazards and risks.
The information about the hazard can be provided by pasting hoarding of safety
instruction on the machinery. And give a working guideline to worker
b) Record and address safety issues raised by staff.
The record of various hazards can be kept on the register manually or organization can
also keep a record on their operating system, for the easy tally of data.
c) Communicate to staff members the outcomes of issues raised.
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