Workplace Health and Safety Management - Measuring and Evaluating HSW Performance

Running head: WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT
Workplace health and safety management
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Table of Contents
Executive summary: 2
Analysis: 2
Conclusion: 4
References: 7

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MEASURING AND EVALUATING HSW PERFORMANCE
There is a process in place to measure and evaluate the ongoing
performance of the HSW management system.
Executive summary
The health and safety management of workplace is an important pursuit for safeguarding the
organizational structure and neutral continuum of the smooth operational statistics in the
workplace. There can be a number of potentially hazardous situations that can threaten the
health and safety of the staff and also deteriorate the standard of the service provided.
execution of workplace health and safety management plan customized to the needs of the
particular organization can be an excellent remedy to any potentially hazardous situation
(Considine 2014). This report will examine in detail the performance of the organization
structure and operations after a moderately successful implementation of WHSMS plan taking
the example of Pitstop Australia simulated case study.
Body (analyse data from scenario; discuss possible causes; explore

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possible solutions;
explain your reasoning and support with evidence).
Pitstop is a fairly big pumping station store in the northern beaches of Sydney with complete
Australian ownership. With the motor vehicle oriented business of the store, there have been
hazards associated with the everyday business operations; the need for an injury management
has been the most important pursuit for this particular case scenario. The major objectives
behind the completion of workplace health and safety management plan in Pitstop Wollongong
had been to minimize the frequency of injuries, reduce the number of days of lost work,
establish risk management scenario, ensure compliance to WHS policy implementation, and
ensure culture of safety in the workplace. The persisting issued with hazard potential with the
business operational characteristics associated with Pitstop enterprise includes issues with the
heat oven, issues with the petrol or LPG pumps, cleaning the forecourt pumps, measurement of
fuel volumes, and restocking (Gerber 2015).
Now it has to be understood that the organization has been expanding with a steady growth
of 20 to 160 employees along the implementation of the workplace health and safety
management system plan. Analysing the advancement of the implementation process in the
Pitstop store it has to be mentioned that the store has grown considerably to opening up 30
stores within the six months of implementation program of the WHSMS, and the plan has
benefitted the organizational management significantly. The initial feedback from the
managerial staff had been positive however the growth of the implementation program of the
WHSMS plan has lost its momentum and the recent data collected indicates at the lost
momentum of the implementation program. For instance, 3 fire instances have been reported