Work Health and Safety Assessment: Underpinning Concepts and Risk Identification

Work health and safety
assessment

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Underpinning concepts related with work health and safety......................................................1
Identifying risk with appropriate recommendation.....................................................................3
Ethico-moral reasoning...............................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Work health and safety assessment is considered to be as the duty for specific issues
which in turn helps each person to retain responsibility (Hansen& et.al. (2018, August)). Work
health and safety helps in protecting individual from eliminating the risk associated with the
work. This study will highlight on, challenges for environmental health. This study helps in
carrying out environmental health assessment in order effectively mitigate environmental health
risk.
MAIN BODY
Underpinning concepts related with work health and safety.
Work health and safety (WHS)
Work health and safety hazards helps in effectively managing the risk associated with the
health and safety. Worker's compensation law tends to have worker's compensation insurance
policy for the employees of the organization. Work health and safety helps in creating a safe
working environment which in turn leads to long term success to the business (Work health and
safety, 2019). Work health and safety is very useful in reducing injury, improves productivity,
reducing cost associated with accidents and worker's compensation. Under the Australian Work
health and safety law the organization must ensure health and safety of the employees within the
organization (Straker & et.al. (2016)). The company must focus on providing safe working
environment, maintaining safe structure and machinery, safe use or handling of machinery,
maintaining adequate facilities, monitoring the health of workers and providing supervision and
training related with safety.
Managing risk helps in improving the health and safety and productivity of the
organization. It is very useful in eliminating and controlling risk which in turn helps in reducing
the number of severe injuries accidents, illness and extra cost to the company. Managing risk
also helps in improving the health of the worker and also helps in promoting the well being and
the capacity to work with higher efficiency (Joss & et.al. (2017)). Managing risk helps in
fostering innovation at the workplace which in urn helps in improving the productivity and
quality of the work. The duty holders to mange WHS risk mainly consists of PCBU's, officers,
manufacturers, managers, suppliers, importers, structures, designers, etc. employers and
employees of the organization also have duty take reasonable measures for health and safety at
the workplace. The first step towards managing WHS risk is identification of hazards, assessing
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