Workplace Safety and Health Laws: Regulations and Responsibilities

This article discusses workplace safety and health laws, regulations, and responsibilities for employees and employers. It covers the importance of safety management, the consequences of violating labor protection requirements, and the certification of workplaces. The article also includes statements from safety advisors and foremen at Do More Steel Manufacturing.

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Introduction
In work safety and health laws, the procedure is to organize work and methods that
elp in safeguarding an employees health and safety. Safety laws regulate the impact of
working conditions that help in safeguarding an employees work. In different departments,
there are laws and rules to work with.According to Occupational And Safety Act 2004, It is
based on the application of legislative normative acts in the field of labor protection. The
main goal of safety management is to organize work to ensure safety, reduce injuries and
accidents, occupational diseases, improve working conditions based on a set of tasks to create
safe and harmless working conditions. The conditions of work, which excludes the impact on
working dangerous and harmful production factors. (Brauer, 2016). Along with practical
measures to improve working conditions, occupational health also develops scientific
foundations for regulating sanitary conditions in the workplace.
Report of the Accident by Fred Hope – Safety Advisor
Those accidents that do not harm the lives and health of employees are quite possible,
and, on the contrary, harm to life and health of workers can be caused without accidents. Life
safety safety is the science of comfortable and safe human interaction with the techno sphere.
OHS Act states that life safety (LS) is an integral part of the system of state, social and
defense measures to protect the population and economy of the country from the
consequences of accidents, disasters, natural disasters. The goal of the steel company is also
to reduce the risk of an emergency through the fault of the human factor. Safety of life is part
of the civil defense system (Donham, & Thelin, 2016). The three main tasks of the BDZHD
are the identification of the hazard type with indication of its quantitative characteristics and
coordinates. Protection against hazard based on a comparison of costs and benefits.

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Elimination of possible hazards based on from concentration and residual risk and
elimination of the consequences of human exposure.
OHS regualtions 2007
Workplace safety management Work safety management - organization of work on
Security sintered reduce injuries and accidents, occupational diseases, improvement of
working conditions on the basis of a set of tasks on creation of safe and harmless working
conditions (Ellen, Kosny, Ståhl, OHagan, Redgrift, Sanford, & Mahood, 2016)..
An emergency is a situation that can lead to damage of parts and injuries. The
emergency situation is a situation that can lead to damage to parts and injuries. A safe
distance is the shortest distance between a person and the source of a hazardous and harmful
production factor, in which a person is outside the danger zone (Friend, & Kohn, 2018).
The conditions of labor under an employment contract must comply with the
requirements of the OT During the suspension of work due to violation of the requirements of
the OT, not through the fault of the employee, the place of work and average salary When an
employee refuses to perform work in case of a danger to his life and health, the employer
must provide the employee with other work while eliminating such a danger. If the provision
of other work is impossible, the idle time is paid in accordance with the current legislation; In
the case of failure to provide the employee with protection means according to the norms, the
employer is not entitled to require the employee to perform labor obligations.
Statement by Craig Pollard- Slitting line Operator
State fire supervision monitors compliance with requirements fire safety in the design
and operation of Other supervising bodies are: federal steel and industrial supervision, federal
supervision of the Western Australia Government for nuclear and radiation safety, state

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traffic safety inspectorate, justice bodies, etc. According to, Occupational Health and Safety
Act, responsibility for violation of labor protection requirements Persons responsible for
violation of the requirements of the RT , non-fulfillment of obligations under the OT,
stipulated by treaties and agreements, labor contracts (contracts), or impeding the activities of
representatives of state supervision bodies and Control over compliance with the
requirements of the OT, as well as bodies of public control, are disciplinary, administrative,
civil and criminal liability in accordance with the legislation of the Western Australia
(Pagone, 2008). The following types of disciplinary sanctions: Remark, reprimand, dismissal
on appropriate grounds. To administrative penalties for violation of requirements OT include
administrative fine and disqualification. Criminal responsibility for violation of labor
protection requirements provides for the following types of penalties: fine; deprivation of the
right to occupy certain positions and engage in certain activities, correctional labor,
imprisonment for a certain period. Rules and regulations on labor protection.
This document establishes the procedure for the development, approval, approval,
recording, publication, dissemination, abolition of rules and instructions for labor protection,
establishes requirements for their construction, content, design and designation, the procedure
for their verification, revision and provision of enterprises, as well as supervision and control
over their observance.In accordance with the judicial practice, it is advisable to organize the
development of instructions for posts in accordance with the staff schedule approved by the
employer. A typical instruction for employees should contain the following sections: general
requirements for labor protection (including the duties of the employee), labor protection
requirements before commencement of work, labor protection requirements during work , the
requirements of labor protection in emergency situations, the requirements of labor protection
at the end of work. If necessary, the instruction can include additional new production
facilities put into operation, it is allowed to develop temporary instructions for employees.

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OHS Act temporary instructions should ensure the safe conduct of technological processes
and the safe operation of equipment. The instructions can be issued to employees on hand
with a receipt in the personal instruction card for study or at workplaces or sites, or stored in
a different place accessible to workers. When assessing, all hazardous and harmful
production factors are evaluated. A special commission is created for attestation. Even if the
firm is small and does not presume hazardous conditions that can affect the work capacity of
workers, it is not necessary to neglect workplace certification.
Statement by Ima Necte- Production Foreman
The main objectives of labor protection in steel are: bringing the working conditions
in line with the current regulations; mechanization and automation of heavy, labor-intensive
and harmful processes or their replacement with new, more secure ones; the removal from
production of machinery and equipment, the work on which is associated with traumatic
factors, as well as the creation of new structures that meet the safety requirements. In the steel
industry, a large number of high-performance machinery are used. The use of new machines,
mechanisms and motorized tools requires certain knowledge of safety.
Correctly organized work in accordance with the norms of labor protection will save
the enterprise from accidents at work, and, in case of their occurrence, will allow to minimize
their consequences. Therefore, at present, the issues of ensuring and observing occupational
safety should be actively addressed at the enterprise - a labor protection management system
should be introduced (Lundgren & McMakin, 2018). The Occupational Safety Management
System (OSH) is part of a general management system that promotes the management of
risks in the field of occupational safety related to the activities of the organization.
Labor protection is one of the priorities in the production activities of the Do More
Steel Manufacturing. In this regard, the Do More Steel Manufacturing provides for a full-

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time position as an occupational safety engineer, and there are also public inspectors. All
work in the for control and planning of measures for labor protection is performed by the
leading engineer for labor protection with higher education and work experience. In regards
to Occupational Health and Safety Act, to carry out occupational safety training in a room for
labor protection is equipped, and in the forest areas, labor protection zones are organized,
which contain safety instructions, general provisions on labor protection, and stands that
demonstrate safe working methods (Holt, & Allen, 2015).The Do More Steel Manufacturing
is doing everything possible to provide jobs with means of protection. Workers are provided
in due time with protective helmets, resistant forks, hand winches, protective goggles,
headphones, overalls and special footwear.
Statement by Dick Snell- Electrical Foreman
Annually in the Do More Steel Manufacturing, competitions are held "For work
without accidents" with the awarding of badges and cash compensation.
In accordance with the "Regulations on training, briefing and testing of knowledge of
workers on labor protection issues at enterprises and organizations of Steel " there were
briefings and training of all employees, with the acceptance of examinations by the OSH
commission. Inspections of the state of labor protection were carried out in accordance with
the Regulations on Administrative and Public Control (Mills, 2016). Newly recruited workers
undergo course training within a month from the date of entry into work with the registration
of the same documents and an order on the Do More Steel Manufacturing or on the units.
Also, in the Do More Steel Manufacturing , if necessary, conduct extra-scheduled
instruction when changing the rules on labor protection, violation of labor safety
requirements by employees, which can lead or resulted in injury, accident, explosion or fire
and targeted training before the work for which the outfit is issued. On the initial briefing at

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the workplace, repeated and unplanned briefing, the occupational safety engineer makes a
note in the log book of briefing at the workplace with the obligatory signature of the
instructed (Phillips, Holland, Mueller, Perkison, & Dreger, 2015).
At the enterprise, the Experimental Steel , the certification of workplaces is carried
out according to the working conditions. According to the results of the certification
workplaces are determined by the class of working conditions for each workplace, in
accordance with which at the enterprise the special attestation commission establishes
surcharges for work with harmful and (or) dangerous working conditions (Salanova, Cifre,
Llorens, Martínez, & Lorente, 2016).. The working conditions in the Do More Steel
Manufacturing are the working conditions of wood fellers, as well as drivers of cars and
tractor drivers in cutting areas and removal of timber (class of labor conditions 3.4),
respectively, for these positions the most high surcharges for work with harmful and
dangerous conditions in the amount of 25% of the tariff rate of the first category.
OHS Act,2004,covers the shortcomings in the organization of occupational safety
which result in injuries and morbidity of workers. The Do More Steel Manufacturing does
not fully have sanitary facilities and devices, protective devices. Materially poorly
encouraged to create healthy and safe working conditions (Sinelnikov, Inouye, & Kerper,
2015). The provision of workers with personal protective equipment worsens. Improvement
in sanatoria is passing fewer employees. The investigation of accidents and accidents shows
that their main causes are low labor and production discipline, gross violations of technology,
safety rules and rules.
Therefore, the main task of engineering and technical workers and specialists in the
field of labor protection is to monitor compliance with labor safety rules and norms. (Trundy,
& Cook, 2014)

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Labour laws and regulations affecting Do More steel manufacturing
Therefore, further improvement of working conditions should be considered not only as a
means of preserving the health of workers, but also as an important reserve for increasing the
efficiency of production and use of labor resources
Fundamentals." According to this article, persons guilty of violating legislative and other
normative acts on pile protection, in default of obligations established by collective
agreements or labor protection agreements, or obstructing the activities of representatives of
state supervision and control bodies, including public control, are brought to legal
responsibility in the order established by the legislation of Russia and the republics within the
Western Australia Government (Yorio, Willmer, & Moore, 2015)..
Disciplinary liability is understood as the application to the guilty person of the following
penalties: remarks, reprimand, dismissal in accordance with the established procedure
(Article 192 of the Labor Code).
The grounds for bringing to disciplinary responsibility are the results of labor safety
inspections conducted by the administration, state supervision and public control bodies, as
well as accidents, accidents, etc.
The disciplinary penalty can only be imposed on an official by a subordinate employee.
In other articles of the Criminal Code, both engineering and technical workers and workers
who have violated the safety rules for the movement and operation of motor vehicles, safety
rules for mining operations, in the manufacture of construction works, safety rules in
explosive plants or in explosive workshops, rules for the storage, use or transportation of
explosive or radioactive substances.

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An employee may be charged for full or partial compensation for damage caused as a result
of an accident, if the misfortune is due to the fault of this employee. In addition, at present,
the "Fundamentals" clearly reflects the responsibility of enterprises for non-compliance with
the requirements of the legislation of the Western Australia Government on labor protection
for the creation of healthy and safe working conditions at work.
Conclusion
Occupational Health and Safety Act has responsibility in these cases is defined as the
obligation of the relevant organizations and enterprises to compensate the customer
(consumer) for material damage. equipment is operated with occupational health and safety
requirements that are hazardous to life and health of workers, its work should be suspended,
in accordance with the instructions of the heads of state labor inspectorates and state labor
inspectors, in order to eliminate these violations.

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