Investigate WHS incident in Melbourne 5 MAIN BODY

We will discuss- Steps, relating to the investigation in aspects of health and safety. Explanation and list of factors of safety with a chemical spill. The relevant legislation in Australia. Any obligation in relation to advising. When relevant government authorities must be notified in Australia. ion to be taken for ensuring the integrity of the workplace with an explanation of the evidence. Register with relevant information. Explanation of severity, sensitivity, and technical incidents at the workplace. Difference between a small injury and a more serious injury.

Investigate WHS incident

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................5
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................5
ACTIVITY 1....................................................................................................................................5
1. Procedure............................................................................................................................5
2. Sections founds in a procedure...........................................................................................5
3. Steps, relating to investigation in health and safety...........................................................6
ACTIVITY 2....................................................................................................................................6
Explanation and list of factors of safety with chemical spill..................................................6
ACTIVITY 3....................................................................................................................................6
The relevant legislation in Australia.......................................................................................6
Any obligation in relation to advising....................................................................................7
When relevant government authorities must be notified in Australia ..................................7
ACTIVITY 4....................................................................................................................................7
Action to be taken for ensure integrity of workplace with explanation of evidence..............7
ACTIVITY 5....................................................................................................................................8
Register with relevant information.........................................................................................8
ACTIVITY 6....................................................................................................................................8
Explanation of severity, sensitivity and technical incidents at workplace.............................8
ACTIVITY 7....................................................................................................................................9
Difference between a small injury and more serious injury...................................................9
ACTIVITY 8 .................................................................................................................................10
List of three legal obligations...............................................................................................10
ACTIVITY 9..................................................................................................................................10
Required resource related to investigation...........................................................................10
ACTIVITY 10................................................................................................................................11
List of three barriers to an investigation...............................................................................11
ACTIVITY 11................................................................................................................................11
Prepare draft action plan.......................................................................................................11
ACTIVITY 12................................................................................................................................12

Methods to obtain information.............................................................................................12
Kind of information can be sourced to assist to understand.................................................13
ACTIVITY 13................................................................................................................................13
List of health and safety investigation..................................................................................13
Important point in the investigation process........................................................................13
ACTIVITY 14................................................................................................................................14
List of information................................................................................................................14
Explaining various information sources can be accessed.....................................................14
ACTIVITY 15................................................................................................................................15
Determine the cause of incidents..........................................................................................15
ACTIVITY 16................................................................................................................................15
Resulting in an operator........................................................................................................15
Possible example..................................................................................................................15
ACTIVITY 17................................................................................................................................16
Which of the hazard controls would use..............................................................................16
Why......................................................................................................................................16
Who......................................................................................................................................16
Why......................................................................................................................................16
What kind of information.....................................................................................................16
ACTIVITY 18................................................................................................................................16
Steps of developing and implementing a risk control plan..................................................16
Information of risk control plan...........................................................................................16
Changes measurement successful and unsuccessful............................................................17
ACTIVITY 19................................................................................................................................17
Variables are taking account when targeting an explanation...............................................17
ACTIVITY 20................................................................................................................................17
Design the incident report....................................................................................................17
ACTIVITY 21................................................................................................................................18
Who should the result of investigation.................................................................................18
In what format......................................................................................................................18
What authorisation................................................................................................................18

CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................18
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................20

INTRODUCTION
Incidents, in case of health and safety occurrences and property damage have the high
human and financial cost. The main purpose of investigation at workplace incidents is the
ascertain both immediate and underlying causes as well as put in place measures to prevent a co-
occurrence. This is the main process which involves a systematic examination of the
circumstances of incident, at the workplace activities which are taking place at the time, plant
and equipment in use at the time and any supporting various materials like existing risk
assessment and control standard as well as legal obligations. The present study is based on “BGC
– Buckeridge group of companies” which deals with mining and civil construction. The report
will explain the different activities which are related to health and safety at workplace.
MAIN BODY
ACTIVITY 1
1. Procedure
A procedure is an established or official way of doing something in better manner. It is
the fixed and step by step process and course of action that must be followed in the same order.
A workplace incident may be means that each or all of the people have been injured and made
unwell worker at workplace in proper manner (Bennett, Dexter and Sakoulas, 2016). This
procedure for incidents investigation includes the identification of resource available for incident
investigation and business policy.
2. Sections founds in a procedure.
There are different types of section which are found in investigation procedure which are
as follows:
 The business policy or investigation
 Identification of person who are responsible for taking it and available resources
 Proper and specification of time frame of conducted investigations
 Guidance and detail information.
This will need the proper and effective documents and approval for business in order to
investigate incident at workplace.
3. Steps, relating to investigation in health and safety.
The steps which are relating to investigation of health and safety are as follows:

 Spot the hazards like electrical cords and noisy machinery: During the work is very
important to alert about the dangerous.
 Assessment of risk: this is the second step, where manager and worker assess the risk
factors.
 Make the changes as per requirements: here is looking at the following options like
elimination, substitution, safeguards, using personal protective equipment’s.
ACTIVITY 2
Explanation and list of factors of safety with chemical spill.
Chemical spill commonly result from the unsafe handling chemicals and failure to
dispose of chemicals in a timely manner. It is very important to ensure about the worker safety at
the time of chemical spill (Brooks and et.al., 2019). For that actions are to use gloves and safe
clothes at the time work. On the other side, the emergency actions as well as list of factors such
as
 Alert areas occupants and supervisor
 Fire and medical attention is needed
 Attend people who are contaminated who clothing must be remove and provide water
after 15 minutes as well as provide first aid kit.
ACTIVITY 3
The relevant legislation in Australia
The health and safety act 2011 of the Australia protects the health, safety and welfare of
the all workers or employees in the company or organisation. It is also protects the others
peoples also who are surfing from the work. Workplace health and safety laws in Australia like
road map for safety around the workplace of the employees. The main purpose of the work place
health and safety laws in Australia is to prevent the disease or death of the employees in the
workplace. There are the different Types of health and safety laws for different industries or
factories in Australia. List of laws such as common laws, statute law. As compare to the retail
industry mining industries has different dangers and threat to the employees.
Any obligation in relation to advising
The obligation in relation to advertising relevant government authorities of incidents like
serious injuries or illness of any employee or worker at the workplace must be informed urgently

to the Government authority of the Australia this is the responsibility of owner of the business or
company to inform regarding their employee or worker serious injuries to the government
authority of the Australia. Make sure that incident area should not disturb by anyone or preserve
that area until the government authority of the Australia arrives. If any worker or employee of
the company is surfing from any serious injuries or he/she is registered under the Workers
compensation must be contact to the insurer of the employee within 48 hours of the incident
When relevant government authorities must be notified in Australia
Australia government authority must be notified at the time of any serious injuries or
illness of workers or employees. That is take place at work place during the working hours, or in
case of awareness about the such incident or accident must be informing to the government
authorities of the Australia. Like if the business owner or the director of company in Australia
forget to inform the government authority regarding the incident or accident happened with any
worker or employee of the company its becomes a part of the criminal offence and they should
have to pay penalties for the carelessness or negligence of the incident (Burtch, 2017). Under the
work health and safety act 2011 a serious injuries or illness, danger caused to any workers
required the emergency treatment or must be admit urgent in the hospital. In the case not
available of emergency treatment at the incident site government authorities must be notified.
ACTIVITY 4
Action to be taken for ensure integrity of workplace with explanation of evidence
It is necessary to confirm the integrity on site in order to ensure protection and safety.
The actions are
 Close off the site and area where is chemical spill
 Relevant personnel are identified
 Evidence for protected for maintaining accidents at BGC
 Conditions are observed and noted by including damage to plant in investigation.
Ensuring about the evidence about the plant where chemical spills because it is necessary to
identify work. The consideration as per WHS regulations in order to protecting workers at
workplace.

ACTIVITY 5
Register with relevant information.
Basis Who should deliver
the notification
Who should be
notified
What are the
legislative
obligations
A superficial cut on
the hand
Safety officer Site manager Hand safety by
wearing gloves
A broken arm HSR HSC HR manager Arm safety acts by
keeping protecting
equipments
A chemical spill
with multiple
injuries
Chemical safety
officer
Safety manager Safety regulations
and environmental
laws
A death caused by a
crushing injury
Program manager Site and director
manager
Notified regulations.
ACTIVITY 6
Explanation of severity, sensitivity and technical incidents at workplace.
There are different aspects which includes in incidents such as severity, sensitivity and
technical at workplace like BGC. Explanation of those are as follows:
Severity incidents:
The severity incidents are generally determine by the different level of response by
involving scale of investigation which in undertaken. It is helpful for aware people by using
process applied by WHS regulations when assessing severity of incidents. For example:
chemical spills at workplace which is the aspect of incident that create biggest issue for BGC or
any other organisation. This is the facilities for serious matters at workplace in proper manner.
This includes high potential for fetal incidents as well as serious injuries. This will be the
immediately and may investigation (Doyle, 2016). For that gives information for responsible
managers. For example: the site manager and HSR department are participants in investigation.
Sensitivity incidents:

Sensitivity of incident is routine system for reporting and attending patient safety
incidents in an NHS hospitals. Sensitivity of incidents is required a proper training for ensuring
the everyone in the workplace is respected and treated appropriately. This involves the learning
to be the respectful and considers different aspects and perspectives of others for work.
Workplace health and safety makes good business sense. In order to manage chemical incidents
at workplace here is important to better prepare response communities for oil spills. It is very
essential information to those responding to oil spills by identifying the sites of coastal resource
and environmentally services.
Technical incidents:
Harmful technical incidents caused by the accidents or failures in technical installation
and hazards. This affects to workplace and workers in not an effective manner and this will give
negative impact on workplace and workers because it is a very serious matter. For example:
plane crashes and power cuts have the two aspects of technical incidents at workplace. This takes
more time for complete work at workplace. Through, here is important to inform to responsible
person like IT department and site manager for resolve this problem fast and in effective manner.
Those are the effective severity and sensitivity and technical incidents at workplace of
investigation.
ACTIVITY 7
Difference between a small injury and more serious injury.
There is various scope in small and large injury on the basis of legislations, regulations
and codes which are as follow:
Basis Small scope Large scope
Common law The small scope is safe system of
work with safe place.
The large scope is safe plant
and equipments which is help
to maintain plan and
machinery at workplace for
long term.

Statute law The small risk is to identified risk
at workplace.
The large scope is to better
workplace arrangement have
to changed.
ACTIVITY 8
List of three legal obligations.
Below is shows three legal obligations to involves interested parties in investigation
process:
 Health and safety at workplace: this is the main and important aspect at workplace like
BGC because by this employees are safe and able to work in organisation. The interested
party in the investigation process is site manager and HSR.
 Proper and safe equipments: Proper and safe equipments are refers more important aspect
at workplace for workers safety from chemical spills (Foster, 2019). The interested party
at the time of investigation are administration departments and health and safety act and
regulations.
 Deliver continuous improvements like higher standard of work health and safety. The
interested person for investigations are employers and contractor or subcontractor.
 The interest parties who are checking properly at workplace investigation. For example:
worker and volunteer association. If in the store have the chemical spills in that case
required to asked with workers for maintain proper work within the investigation.
ACTIVITY 9
Required resource related to investigation.
There are different resource which are required for business in order to investigation are
as follows: the health and safety act is provides a division which contains definitions and
important term related to whole act. The list of resources are
 Management commitment and employee involvement
 Worksite analysis
 Hazard prevention or control
 Training for employees, supervisors and managers
 Site manager and program analytics with proper investigation team work.

The list of personnel:
 An elected members of local authority does not in that capacity conduct a business or
undertaking. (health and safety representative)
 The specialist in the context of investigation is not conduct or undertaking for the purpose
of this act (Hosseini and et.al., 2015). (WHS advisor)
 The person is worker which is carriers out work like an employer and employee of
contractor or subcontractor. (site manager)
ACTIVITY 10
List of three barriers to an investigation
There are three barriers which are affect to investigation process are as follows:
Barrier Reason Action required Who is reponsible
People Attitudes
Language and culture
issues
Using proper
communication skills
and try to understand
their culture
Site manager and
training department.
Incident Carelessness and
irresponsibility
Re-check the
equipments and
machinery of work.
IT manager
Environment Geographic location
changes in incident cases
To seal off the area Site and program
manager
ACTIVITY 11
Prepare draft action plan.
The draft action plan is help to maintain a risk at workplace by taking proper action and
timelines are as follows:
Action plan
Objectives / task Actions and activity Measurement and
outcomes
Timelines

Develop supported and
effective team or
group for manage
Identify team members
for work by providing
information
By completing task or
as per their
performance in
organisation
1 weeks
To resource to be
allocated to the
investigation is the
scope of investigation.
To develop web based
reporting within the
workplace by re-
checking equipments.
Development plan and
evaluate work force.
3 weeks
To required resource
like first aid kit, digital
camera
To use proper
equipments and
resource for
investigation like HSR
Documenting actions
and accomplished of
objectives.
4 weeks
Information taking
about the time line
Check continuous
work at sites and
healthy or safety acts
By refine research
questions and report
2 weeks
Draft action plan
Task Action Person Time frame Status
Inspect site Photographs and
documentary
Site manager 2 weeks Complete
Interview Interview
witnesses
HSR manager
witnesses
4 weeks Pending
ACTIVITY 12
Methods to obtain information.
There are different methods of investigation at workplace which are as follows:
 Conduct interview to identify possible injuries
 Eyewitness accounts because they are see the what is exactly happens at place.

 Taking photographs because this provide clear and accurate records and seen of
workplace (Jiang, Li and Mei, 2018).
 Sketches and measurement by taking two angles right and left side photography.
 Sample testing in laboratories
 Documentary evidence includes by work procedures, operating manuals.
 Responsible authority like organisational policies
Kind of information can be sourced to assist to understand.
There are different kinds of information are required for investigation to assist to
understand possible events are:
 Firstly, having the proper knowledge and information of goal or objective of health and
safety concerns at workplace.
 Proper knowledge and information for work and heathy safety at workplace.
 Information about uses of equipments for taking actions at the time of incidents.
 Information of HSR practices and different legislations (Kliem and Ludin, 2019).
 Securing evidence and storage which is collected must be kept in a safe and secure
location by having proper knowledge of location.
 Development of timelines is charged.
ACTIVITY 13
List of health and safety investigation.
The health and safety investigation is important to maintain at workplace in proper
manner. This answer will. Supported by the different techniques to investigate health and safety
at workplace like BGC. Those are as follows:
 Securing evidence and storage
 Undercover operations
 Use of information in proper manner
 Descriptive investigation
 Continuous checking of resource and equipments

Important point in the investigation process.
It has very important to done proper and specific research at workplace. In order to
perform in investigation process in effective manner here is define some important points which
are as follows:
 It is very important to have proper knowledge of resource which are important for work
like hazards information (Lyons, 2016).
 Provide proper information about work to employee by organizing training and
development program.
 The technical knowledge of process and equipment layout
 The reporting and observation skills.
 Gather and analysis proper information and draw proper conclusion of work.
ACTIVITY 14
List of information.
At the time of research required a various specific information which help to complete
proper research at workplace like BGC. Those information are underneath:
 Date, time and location by including conducted with responsible people.
 Name and list of injured people like other includes the incidents and witness.
 Present condition of plant and equipment and where wan to see that.
 The layout of the incident scene by using proper documents (Martynova and Perotti,
2018).
 Prevailing conditions in the work place and environment like light and temperature.
 Place where chemical is spills and type of chemical.
Those are useful information which are help to conduct one of site inspection at the same time of
day in proper manner and with best result of work.
Explaining various information sources can be accessed.
Source How to access
Documentation By using written and printing document
Pen drives, hard disk and computer system
People Personal records

Training records
Plant and substances Incidents and injury records
Plant and chemical registers
Risk analysis and other company records.
Work environment and
processes
The work environment and processes access by the site manager
with great aspects at workplace in proper manner.
Through, equipment maintenance records.
ACTIVITY 15
Determine the cause of incidents.
The incidents is avoiding blame and the cause of incident is human error at work place in
proper manner. This is highly affect a business by standard practice at workplace. This provide
the opportunity for the occurrences of substandard practices and conditions. This could be
involves the both aspects of people and condition because ignorance is generated at workplace
according to conditions. The supervision of workplace health and safety officer who directs their
own attention to control the all of incident by keeping its professional management thinking.
This may possible through, like standard of practices and conditions which are here the
standard practices like operation without authority and failure to warn operations (Metcalf and
et.al., 2017). On the other side standard of conditions are inadequate guards or protection and
defective tools, equipments and substances. This may affect investigation process because lack
of knowledge and measurement equipments are create issues in investigation process.
ACTIVITY 16
Resulting in an operator
There are different model of tools which are used in the root cause or why tree analysis is
more common method. This is effective and help for BGC in order to analysis cause of risk and
incident at workplace. This provide a great aspects of work. After each steps, why questions
asked is potential contribution factors are documented and work. This will highly help to develop
proper needs of work and taking effective decision for potential causes. There are specifically
required documentation for factors. The result of incidents is physical harm and property damage
as well as humane effects and economic effects.

Possible example
The possible example of incident is not attending training and development program at
workplace. Like when employee is not attend training program for work when they are not
understand the work process and do mistakes accordingly as well as avoid the work process and
jump to other work and step (O’Malley, 2017). This is possibility of incidents.
ACTIVITY 17
Which of the hazard controls would use
Here is important to control the chemical spill form mechanical parts.
Why
It is important to stop spill from the workplace because of it will create the big issue like
hazard fire.
Who
Consult with specific responsible person Goran because he experienced people with roper
information.
Why
Goran have proper knowledge and he is highly able to solve this problem in proper
manner.
What kind of information.
Giving proper knowledge of chemical and mechanical equipments for proper work.
ACTIVITY 18
Steps of developing and implementing a risk control plan
The steps of risk control plan are as follows:
Step 1: Conduct a way of proper facility
Step 2: Speck with employee
Step 3: Identify major risk
Step 4: Evaluate a risk
Step 5: Develop treatment of risk by taking knowledge
Step 6: Providing training to employees
Step 7: Schedule and regular audit.

Information of risk control plan
It is the document of project which include a risk and its impacts. There is required a
proper knowledge of work and risk like documentary.
Changes measurement successful and unsuccessful
It is very important to measure success and unsuccessful changes by checking
equipments work and taking feedbacks from employees about work (Rafalskaya, 2017).
ACTIVITY 19
Variables are taking account when targeting an explanation
Here is need to be cognisant of these difference as well as the skills and capabilities of
each group. There are different target audiences which are as follows:
 Health and safety committees
 Health and safety representatives
 Senior management
 Line manager and operation staff
 External authorities
Health and safety committees and representatives are an opportunities to consider the report on
prior basis.
ACTIVITY 20
Design the incident report
1. Identification of information and related details: The incidents is chemical spills at
workplace.
2. A description of incidents: The chemical spills with mistaking program. This problem is
create biggest problem for company like fire (Selman and et.al., 2018).
3. A complete cause analysis: the cause of incident is human error immidate cause.
4. An evaluation of problem: the problem is evaluate by responsible person.
5. An action plan
Task Action Person Time frame Status
Inspect site photographs Site manager 2 weeks Pending

6. Reviewed: reviews taking by feedback form employees.
ACTIVITY 21
Who should the result of investigation
Health and safety officer of retail and administration department. They are liable for
providing proper report of mistakes (Wilkinson, 2016). They are providing objective, evidence
and quality.
In what format
The report will present in report format in proper manner. The proper software is KPIs
indicator. Structure format
 Header and cover page
 Content page
 Introduction
 Incident details
 Causation
 Corrective action
 Recommendation
What authorisation
The CEO or general manager authorisation is required.

CONCLUSION
From the above report it had been concluded that the procedure, work health and safety
Act 2011, Australia legislation regarding the workers or employees safety and security at the
work place. The procedure had been helped to work with using proper process of work. It had
been concluded that the different legislations for investigation process. Those legislations has
helped to maintain the effectiveness of investigation in the proper format. This has presents the
severity, sensitivity and technical aspects related to investigation. The obligations has been
involved interest parties b y providing examples.

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