BSBWHS302: Assessment on Applying WHS Legislation in the Workplace

This assignment assesses a student's understanding of workplace health and safety (WHS) legislation, specifically focusing on the BSBWHS302 unit. The assessment includes matching legislation to states/territories, identifying relevant WHS acts and regulations for a given job, and explaining the relationship between Commonwealth and state laws. It delves into key WHS concepts such as the definition of an Act, regulations, and codes of practice, along with the objectives of WHS legislation. The assignment further explores the roles and responsibilities of duty holders, consultation processes, and non-compliance issues, including examples and enforcement methods. The student provides insights into monitoring compliance, maintaining records, and staying updated with WHS information, including steps to take when an employee reports a health and safety concern. The assessment is divided into knowledge-based questions and a PowerPoint presentation, requiring the student to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of WHS principles and their practical application in the workplace.

BSBWHS302 – Apply knowledge of WHS legislation in the
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Assessment
Name: Surname:
Student ID:
Qualification: BSB30115
Training Package: BSB Business Service
Due Date: Week 9 Assessment Type:
Assessment Guidelines
Please read the following assessment guidelines carefully.
1. The purpose of this activity is to assess your knowledge and skills in Apply knowledge
of WHS legislation in the workplace.
2. If you have any considerations that may affect your performance in the assessment,
please inform your assessor immediately. Your assessor will provide you with a suitable
alternative to complete this assessment.
3. Your assessor will mark your assessment and provide feedback and a grade to you via
the assessment submission on Moodle.
4. If you feel the decision made by your assessor was incorrect you have the rights to
appeal the grading through filling out an appeals form which will then be handle by the
Academic Manager.
5. A “NYS” (not yet satisfactory) result of this task may be returned to you for a re-
assessment. Re-assessments must be submitted by an agreed date with your assessor.
6. The re-assessment work must address the specific performance tasks beyond doubt for
the assessor to issue a satisfactory (pass) result. A repeat NYS outcome could lead to
an administration fee for further reassessment.
7. All work must be done individually. Copied work will not be accepted and
By adding my name to this document, I hereby declare the work is my own and
has not been copied from any other source.
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Assessment Overview
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Student NAME:_______________________________________ Date:_________________
There are 2 parts to this assessment, the first part is Knowledge based
questions which you can use the PowerPoint lecture slides which have been
uploaded to Moodle to assist you with your assessment.
The second part is a PowerPoint presentation which focuses around
compliance and legislation. You can use the information which you have
gathered in your knowledge question to assist you in your presentation.
Please upload both your completed assessment and your PowerPoint
Presentation together onto the Moodle platform.
If you can not access your assessment or the PowerPoint lecture slides on
Moodle make sure you notify your trainer as soon as possible.
The lecture slides and student guides have been uploaded to Moodle to
assist you with your assessment, along with the help and assistance of your
classroom trainer.
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Knowledge based Questions
1. Using the table below match the correct legislation to the correct
state/territory.
STATE/TERRITORY LEGISLATION
Australian Capital Territory Work Health and Safety 2011 (Act and
Regulation)
Queensland Work Health and Safety 2011 (Act and
Regulation)
Northern Territory Workplace health and Safety National
Uniform Legislations
Work Health and Safety 2011 (Act and
Regulation)
South Australia Work Health and Safety 2012 (Act and
Regulation)
Tasmania Work Health and Safety 2012 (Act and
Regulation)
Western Australia Occupational Safety and Health Regulations
1996
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Victoria Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004
and Occupational Health and Safety
Regulations 2007.
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2. Using the Safe Work Australia website
https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/to research WHS Acts as Regulations
and answer the below questions.
a.Identify the WHS Act and regulation for NSW which relates to
your current job. Consider your job and the industry you work
in.
The WHS act and regulations that relate to my current job are Work and
Health safety act 2011 of New South Wales and Work Health and Safety
Regulations 2017 of New South Wales.
3. How does the power of the commonwealth Work Health and Safety
2011 Act and regulations work with the different state/territory
health and safety laws?
The power of the commonwealth work differently with the different
states as the conditions for work vary between the different states of
Australia. This mean that some of the states can have more industrial
areas than the others. This makes the laws that need to be implemented
across the various states different in types and frequencies. Thus the
commonwealth health and safety act of 2011 is implemented across
various states in different ways.
4. List 4 types of guidance information relating to WHS and where they
can be found?
4 types of guidance information that can be related to WHS are risk
identification areas, legislation areas, ethical standards and safety
regulations. These can be found easily on the websites of the WHS along
with separate links that relate to the different states.
5. Define the following
a. Act
An act is the official heading from which the regulations and guidelines
would be known. The act refers to the document that confirms the laws
that would control the legislations.
A regulation is a statement that confirms the law. The regulations are the actual statements that
confirm the various things that can be done or not done based on the law that is being
implemented. They contain the various factors that are in place for determining the do’s and
don’ts in given scenarios or general practices.
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c. Code of practice
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b. Regulation
https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/
Code of practice refers to the ideal codes of conducts that need to be complied with as part
of the given WHS organizational standards. These are the idea codes that need to be
considered as part of important practices.
6. List four components an objective of WHS legislation.
The four components of WHS legislations are risk management, ethical dimensions, ideal practices and
control. Four objectives are creating a safe work space, maintenance of strong ethical standards,
creation of ideal practices and controlling the organizational standards.
7. Explain the role of a duty holder?
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The duty holder is responsible for the safety and security of himself/herself. He/she is also responsible
for the safety of others in the workplace. Additionally, the duty holder requires to look towards the
safety and security of the people that work with him. It is part of some of the most important duties of
the duty holder that he upholds the idea of a safe work environment for all.
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8. Give examples of four different types of duty holders within the organisation?
The four different types of duty holders are:-
1. Health and Safety Committee
2. Health and safety Representative
3. Officer
4. Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking (PCBU)
9. List down 4 examples of who you should consult with within an organization regarding
the
training of workers and health and safety representatives?
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1. The superiors
2. The human resource management
3. The workers who need to be given training
4. The health and safety inspectors

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10. Explain what a non-compliance is and give an example of a non-compliance with WHS
11. Where can information regarding consequences of WHS non-compliances be found?
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Noncompliance refers to the situation where a particular workers refuses to cooperate
with the regulations and guidelines of a particular firm or organization (King 2015). An
example of non-compliance is with Work and Health Safety is that of not having fire
extinguishers within the work place.
The information regarding non-compliance can be found with the human resource
management of the organization (Potteret al. 2019).

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12. List 4 methods which can be used by industry regulators to enforce compliance with
WHS?
13. How can compliance be monitored within the workplace?
14. When monitoring WHS activities why is it important to keep a record?
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1. Ensuring an efficient monitoring system
2. Providing the necessary training to the employees
3. Establishing safety features within the firm
4. Imposing penalties in the people who refuse to comply with the safety features
Compliance can be ensured within the work place with the system of effective
monitoring. This monitoring can be done with the aid of the active vigilance of the
superiors (Williamsonet al. 2018). In other words, the supervisors should keep a check on
the actions of the workers so that they can comply with the safety features of the firm.
Secondly, compliance can be ensured with the support of a CCTV system. The
employees should be kept monitored at regular intervals so that they can be kept safe and
When monitoring WHS, it is important to keep a record so that the supervisors are aware
of the employees who are refusing to comply with the safety features. They are the ones
who should be kept under a strict surveillance so that the other workers are kept secure
and safe within the business firm.

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15. How can individuals monitor compliance within their organisation while being
compliant with current legislation?
16. If an employee reports a health and safety concern to you, what should you do?
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The individuals should ensure that all the different safety features should always be adhered
to. This should be even during those times when they are being compliant to the current
legislation (Furci and Sunindijo 2018). Any disregard to the safety features can lead to the
inconvenience of the organization and may even lead to the harm of the concerned
individuals.
If any employee repots a health and safety concern to me, then my first priority will be to
see if the event is true. Then I would try to investigate on the issue so that I find the reason
for the occurrence of such a situation. I would try to minimize its occurrence in the future.

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14. If there has been a breach with Health and Safety reported to you what steps must you then
take?
If a breach in healthy and safety is reported, then the person should immediately report to his
or her supervisor (staff.flinders.edu.au 2019). If the incident is more serious, suppose if the
there is a fire in the building, then the person needs to call the fire department and then go to
the site but the priority should be keeping himself/herself safe.
15. If you are unsure on how to assist with Health and safety compliance what should you do?
If the person to whom the hazard is reported is unsure of what to do, then the person should
immediately report to his/supervisor and also report online to the authorities once the person is
free after his initial response.
16. If you are unsure of health and safety compliance within the workplace list the steps you could
take to ensure you are working on becoming compliant?
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The person needs to first ask his supervisors so that they can allocate proper time for him to take
training about the safety. Search online about the laws and regulations pertaining to the health
and safety procedures and make sure that the guidelines are clearly know so that in case of any
emergency the person can assist.
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17. How can you go to ensure you are staying up to date with Work Health and Safety information?
The person needs to talk with his/her supervisor and stay updated with any new rules and
regulations are in place. The government website of ‘Work and Health Safety’ has to be checked,
so that the person stays updated on the issues about health and safety (www.business.gov.au
2019). Proper timely training has to be done on a regular interval so that the person stays up to
date about the new rules and regulations.
18. Why is it important to keep up to date with WHS legislation and information?
It is of prime importance that everybody stays up to date with all the information about the
legislation of the work and health safety. This is necessary because if there is an emergency
such as a fire or death of a person, the rules need to be followed and then only the proper
functioning during a situation of crisis can be ensured (www.comcare.gov.au 2019).
22. List 5 ways you can keep up to date with current WHS information?
1) Regular training in fixed interval of time.
2) Talking to the supervisor on a daily basis.
3) Checking the government website of the Work and Health Safety.
4) Peer groups should help the individual in getting all the information that is needed.
5) Talking to the local law enforcement officer will also help in keeping up.
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23. How can changes in WHS legislation and information be communicated to other
employeeswithin your workplace?
There should be proper peer groups in place so that all the information is up to date. Training
at regular intervals will also help (www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au 2019). This should help them
keep up with every information there is to know about the work and health safety.
24. Who must be consulted with on matters of work health and safety in the workplace, and what
should consultations allow?
Firstly, the immediate supervisor has to be noted and secondly the local health and safety
enforcement officer should know. The conversation should encompass everything, each and every
detail of the event has to reported.
25. Provide three different people that you can contact to access help on matters of
work health and safety (internal or external to the organisation)
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and safety (internal or external to the organisation).
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Firstly the immediate supervisor, secondly the health and safety enforcement officer and thirdly
the peers in the organization. These are the people who can help during any crisis and but it is
important for the immediate supervisor to know at the beginning about any breach or hazard.
26. of work health
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Presentation
You need to create a WHS presentation. The purpose of the presentation
to inform your audience of the importance of WHS legislation within the
workplace and ensuring monitoring and compliance is kept up to date
within the organisation by all employee’s.
Imagine you are the Workplace Health and Safety officer for your current
job, your boss has asked you to develop and present a PowerPoint
presentation 10-12 slides long. In your presentation you must cover the
following areas:
 How can employees and employers contribute to monitoring
Compliance through legislation?
 How does the organisation contribute to monitoring compliance with
legislation?
 How is non-compliance within the workplace handled?
 Looking at your daily tasks, what legal duties must you carry out?
 If you do not understand your legal duties for your current job who
can you ask for advise or where can you do to get advice?
 How can you communicate with other people in your workplace to
provide them with information on relevant legislation and changes
which occur to the legislation?
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