Australian Hardware: Developing & Implementing a WHS Management System

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the WHS (Work Health and Safety) management system implemented at Australian Hardware, focusing on ensuring a safe and healthy workplace. It begins by reviewing the current scenario at Australian Hardware, highlighting the need for improved safety measures due to frequent injuries and the use of hazardous materials. The report then delves into the features of an appropriate WHS management system, including internal auditing, documentation, training, and planning. Amendments to the Wollongong Store WHS policy are proposed to apply nationally, emphasizing regular safety measurements, health checkups, and quality maintenance. The report outlines a risk management policy, a recordkeeping policy, and discusses the roles and responsibilities of various officials, from the CEO to team leaders, in ensuring WHS compliance. The budget allocation for implementing the WHS policy is also detailed, and the report concludes by emphasizing the effective application of the WHS policy through ethical and legislative adherence, proper documentation, and assigned responsibilities.

Ensure a safe workplace
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Table of Contents
Introduction..............................................................................................................................3
Assessment 1.............................................................................................................................4
Assessment 2.............................................................................................................................9
Part A........................................................................................................................................9
Part B.......................................................................................................................................12
Assessment 3...........................................................................................................................16
Conclusion...............................................................................................................................22
References...............................................................................................................................23
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Introduction
The WHS is a certification that provides the guidance about the safety standards of the
company. The same was checked in Australian Hardware Company that makes tools such as
those of gardening tools, construction tools. The WHS has studies certain incidents in the
company and based on that they are making certain policies to ensure that the employees are
safe and healthy. Moreover, the policies are made in accordance to cover all the internal and
external issues of the company. The Wollongong retail store has introduced a certain policy
for the safety of its employees. The same is inspired from and applied nationwide. There are
plans to introduce training sessions to the employees to make them understand the
importance of the safety and hygiene.
The company’s goals were also considered to make it a global leader and increase sales. The
officials have been meeting with the auditors to check the previous issue and make policies to
improve the work culture.
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Assessment 1
1. Review the Australian Hardware scenario in Appendix 1
As per the standards of the WHS, the Australian Hardware has been providing with a lot of
hardware services to the people, but at the same time, they are not able to keep up with the
safety and health of the employees working there. The company has been into so much
hardware and lifting of the heavy machinery thus resulting in frequent injuries in the factory.
It is required by the officials to make proper safety measures in order to avoid fatal injuries
and accidents in the factory (Averill, 2016). Moreover, there is a need to keep a record by the
officials to keep in the record the safety and health features in the company. The legal and
ethical compliances are also needed to be maintained.
WHS has provided certain measurement criteria in order to maintain the safety and check the
health and well being in the workplace. The safety of the workplace is the duty of the
officials to maintain and failing to do so will affect the health of the employees and reduce
productivity. Australian Hardware has also been using hazardous materials to prepare the
equipment that is also one of the point noted by the officials to check the health parameters of
the company that has been deteriorating constantly (Borchard, et. al. 2012).
2. Review the Australian Hardware simulated business information in Appendices
2–5.
The Australian Hardware has been developing a different kind of products that include the
products in gardening, home improvement, house maintenance, building, and constructions.
They are all based upon a few goals, they are to increase the production and increase the sales
in the market and thus becoming market leaders, maintaining the operational cost in the
system. This is all done by making a proper marketing plan. This plan involves all types of
officials from all the departments that are sales, retail, marketing, finance, human resources
(Briscoe, et. al, 2012). Apart from that, the Australian Hardware has been following the
Wollongong policy to maintain the ethical and legal structures to maintain the health and
safety of the employees. This policy involves discussion with the senior management to
mark down the needs in the system, and then giving proper training to the officials and
making they understand the importance of the same in future (Briscoe, et. al, 2012).
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3. Research WHS management systems (WHSMS) to determine the features for an
appropriate WHS management system to propose for Australian Hardware
 As per the WHS management system, the policies that are needed to be included are-
 There should be internal auditing of the system.
 Proper documentation is needed
 WHS training and induction is done for all officials
 WHS planning and programming
 In order to amend the existing policies the Australian officials are needed to be trained
properly to check the health and safety standards in the system and improve working
conditions (Doyle, et. al, 2013).
 The major responsibility is the officials should make effective use of the opportunity to
improve it continuously and effectively. Next, they can make the subordinates also work in
accordance to make workplace healthy and safe.
 Financial resources required are discussed by the senior members, the sales head, finance
head, human resource head; associated team leads (Doyle, et. al, 2013).
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4. Amend the Wollongong Store WHS policy to apply nationally.
In order to amend the Wollongong policy the implementation can be done globally, this is
done by following the ethical and legal rules by both the company and the officials-
 The safety standards should be measured regularly by the officials
 The health checkups should be done to avoid any hazard that has been in the system for long
(Fabius, et. al, 2013).
 Maintenance of the quality of the products and the machinery used in the system
 For employees, it is important that they maintain the rules specified by the Wollongong
committee.
 They should follow all the safety measures and features to see the value of the same in the
system
 The periodic analysis to check the adherence of the team should be done (Fabius, et. al,
2013).
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5. Develop a report on the proposed WHSMS.
Introduction - The Australian Hardware has been using certain safety measures to deal with
the security and safety issues in the system, thus this can be done by following the different
policies specified by the WHS and adhering to them. The responsible officials are also
mentioned and the budget is discussed to see the requirements in the current policy. This is to
overall develop a safe and healthy environment.
The different policies introduced by WHS are-
 They believe in conservation of the likelihood
 They evaluate the risk levels in the company and eliminate them
 They check all the factors creating the risk and making certain policies to maintain the work.
 The document the whole process and do internal auditing of the same (Thomas, 2012).
The required amendments to the policy include all the features that were not being taken care
of by the officials earlier.
 Proper documentation of the cases that have happened in the past
 There should be internal audits done by the team to check the current position of the
workplace
 There should be a team assigned to guard and check the adherence to the policies (Feige, et.
al, 2013).
It is the duty of the entire senior as well as the junior members of the company that has been
affecting the WHS of the company. The designated officials in the process to check the
adherence on the policy are-
 CEO – they are overall in charge of the process
 General Manager- They check the basic health, safety and well being of the organization
 National health Manager- They check the health and safety of all the sister organizations
associated with them
 Execution Manager- They are the people directly associated with the execution of the WHS
policies in Australian Hardware organization (Feige, et. al, 2013).
 Supervisors/ Team leads- They can personally apply the policies.
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The budget allocation in the application of the policy should be according to the hierarchy
and the cost required.
Officials Budget(in $ hourly)
CEO 200
General Manager 150
National health Manager 70
Execution Manager 50
Supervisors/ Team Leads 20
Conclusion- The WHS policy has been effectively applied in Australian Hardware company
by making a proper marketing plan that has been adhering to the ethical and legislative way
to apply the safety and health policy in the company. The policy includes auditing and
documentation of the system with the permission of different responsible personality
hierarchy wise. The budget has been divided according to the requirement of the policies of
the WHS.
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Assessment 2
Part A
1. Review the scenario
As per the requirement in the Wollongong store in the Australian Hardware, there has been a
need to apply a new policy the plan was discussed with the people around. Then the policy
has been discussed with the people ranging from senior management to the junior executives.
The new plan includes-
 Learning the issues from the past and documenting the issues in a proper report.
 Gathering proper resources in implementing the policy
 Checking the quality of the security standards and improving the same as required by the
conditions of the team.
 Then doing health checkups and applying the same period in the process.
 Checking the safety equipment
 Preparing proper guidelines to be followed by the team respectively (Gahan, and Evans,
2014).
2. Review the Australian Hardware simulated business information in the Appendices of
the previous Assessment Task.
The assessment tasks in this section are discussing the culture and the practices of the
Australian Hardware, there are certain policies that are needed to be followed by the
organization in order to maintain the health and safety of the organization. Moreover, the
organization has been focussing on the Wollongong policy to nationally make it a safe
workplace to work upon. The whole procedure will be done according to a marketing plan
and the assigned duties are discussed by the senior management going along with the all the
members and the corresponding employees. The process is to make sure all the employees
follow the safety instructions and maintain the quality of the work environment. The same is
applicable to all the employees and has to adhere to all the safety issues whenever they enter
the organization. This whole process is to increase the sales of Australian Hardware and
make it a market leader (Gahan, and Evans, 2014).
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3. Develop a policy and procedure/s for WHS risk management
The organization is now making a policy in order to make the Australian Hardware a safe
work environment in order to do so, there are certain policies that are being made by the
officials, they are to adhere with the legal and legislative work culture of the organization-
 The organization is now focussing more on risk assessment that is done initially by
identifying the risk, take accurate resources to fight them, make a proper assessment
procedure to deal with it, discuss with the seniors and the stakeholders, then finally
implementing the same in the system, reviewing and improvising the same (Goetzel, et. al,
2014).
 The new process is made to adhere to all the declared security standards to the Wollongong
as well as the WHS committed to make it a healthy and safe work environment.
 A team has been made in order to check the employee’s safety and security and penalize the
ones not following the same.
 The hierarchy has been made equally responsible to check the standards of the company; this
is done by making a proper safety measure technique and allocating budget to apply the same
in Australian Hardware (Goetzel, et. al, 2014).
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4. Develop recordkeeping policy and procedure/s
In order to keep a record and analyze the performance, the following template has been
designed by the team
Hazard Date of
Incident
Cause of
incident
Person
affected
Level of
severity(1-5) Measures
were taken
Responsible
Authority
Biological
exposure
02/06/2018 Poisonous
plant
2 people got
affected
2 Immediately
taken under
the medical
care
All the
doctors and
medical teams
Chemical
expose
03/06/2018 Emission
from the
tools
treatment
1 labour got
affected
being in
direct
contact
4 Immediately
taken to high
medical
authority
Chemical
production in
charge
Electrical
fault
05/06/2018 Faulty
wiring in
the
machinery
1 labour got
minor shock
3 Preliminary
treatment
was given
Electrical
safety in
charge
Heavy
Machinery
15/05/2018 Lifting
heavy
machinery
without any
safety
equipment
5 labour lost
their life
5 Support to
family has
been offered
All the senior
authorities.
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Part B
1. Arrange with your assessor to meet with the Wollongong workgroup health and safety
representative (HSR). Prepare to collect information on worker concerns and
effectiveness of existing controls for risk.
After the occurrence of so many health issues, it was seen that there have been certain issues
faced by the worker during their day to day work at Australian Hardware. One of them is the
constant heat pressure affecting the respiratory system of the team. There are many kinds of
chemicals used in the processing of the tools and their processes. There are certain electrical
fittings that are loose, thus this is affecting the day to day activities of the organization. There
is a need for basic safety checks like gloves, waste treatments, water treatment, safety shoes
and helmets (Kafel, 2016).
2. In a role-play, meet with the Wollongong HSR
In the meeting with the HSR of Wollongong, it was identified that the same will be done by
measuring the current safety issues and then making proper resources to meet with the other
policies in the same. The meeting with HSR guided about the certain issues that have to be
checked, like the basic safety equipment in the factory, treatment of the water and air levels
of the factory, periodic checking of the electrical equipment in factory and treatment of the
chemical waste before disposing of them. The role play was also focussing on the various
issues that were previously happening in the organization and what was the response of the
officials in those situations and what more could have been done in order to give maximum
response to the affected people. The adherence to the legislative policies of Wollongong was
also discussed in the process. This was all done to make proper future policies (Kafel, 2016).
3. Identify and seek expert advice for some aspect of planning or implementation of WHS
risk management or WHS legislation
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