BSBWHS501 Ensure a Safe Workplace: A Comprehensive Report

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BSBWHS501 Ensure a Safe Workplace
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Table of Contents
Assessment 1..............................................................................................................................3
Assessment 2..............................................................................................................................7
Assessment 3............................................................................................................................10
References................................................................................................................................11
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Assessment 1
1. Review of Appendix 1
2. Review of Appendix 2-5.
3. Research on WHS management system to determine the features for a proper WHS
management system to propose for Australian Hardware.
a. Policies and procedures to be included
The policy is considered as the course or the principle of action. This policy is adopted by the
government. The policy to be included for WHSMS in Australian Hardware is Work Health
and Safety Policy 2016. There are different procedures and points covered in this policy
which are as follows:
 Resolving the issues related to health and safety at the workplace.
 Consulting with the employees of the company regarding the work health as well as
safety.
 Controlling as well as monitoring the health as well as the workplace conditions for a
worker.
 Providing adequate information as well as the training to the employees in order to
work safely.
There is a requirement of these procedures and policies to be in writing which can be helpful
in providing certainty and clarity at the workplace in order to demonstrate the compliance
with the existing legislation.
b. Adaptations and amendments required in existing policies and procedures
There is a requirement of making the changes as well as amendments in the existing policies
as well as procedures related to work health and safety due to the lack of adequate safety
measurements in the existing policy. There is a requirement of including the hazard and the
risk control and management procedures in the existing policies to ensure that the hazards
and risks introduced due to the changes in the existing workplace cannot harm the employees
or adversely affect them. Further, there is a requirement of making the amendments in the
existing policies regarding the training of the employees. This is highly required that the
employees must be allowed to work at the workplace after his completion of the training
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session where he would be taught to handle all the risks at the workplace and work safely.
There is a need for adding the procedure of not only the safety of oneself but also the safety
of the colleagues if possible (Vogus & Iacobucci, 2016).
c. The roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities required
There is a requirement of defining the roles, responsibilities as well as the accountabilities of
each person at the workplace in order to ensure that all the workplace health and safety
procedures are being followed in an appropriate manner. The employees of an organization
are required to identify as well as control the hazards and minimize the risks that can cause to
the injury, damage or the loss to the KPIs of the company.
There is an important role of the PCBU who has the primary duty of care to ensure the health
as well as the safety of the workers while they are working at the workplace. He also has the
responsibility of making sure that there is no risk carried out at the workplace affecting the
health and safety for the workers.
The employer also has an important role along with the managers to ensure that all the safety-
related legislation are being followed by the employees at the workplace. They are
accountable to the security and safety of their workers at the workplace.
d. The requirement of human, physical and financial resources
There will be a requirement of the human, financial as well as the physical resources for the
purpose of the implementation of workplace health and safety policies and procedures. The
financial resources will include the money required to implement such policies. There will be
a requirement of the training rooms for the purpose of providing the training to the employees
to ensure the work to be done with appropriate safety. The total approved budget for such
resources is $ 1 million. The human resources required for such purpose will be the board of
directors, CEO, CFO, Human resources managers, Store managers, sales consultants and
team leaders along with their workers.
4. Portfolio of the evidence of the research and details for the resources and costs for
system
The research is being made after analyzing different secondary research sources such s the
magazines, websites as well as the published articles. The existing literature on workplace
health and safety management system is being used in order to make the research effectively.
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Sample of documentation
The resources required for the workplace health and safety management system are as
following:
Training Rooms: These are essential for providing training to the employees. This will help
the employees in ensuring that the work is being done with safety.
Workers: It is very important for any WHSMS to have the workers to work at such an
organization whose safety is important.
Senior managers: These are the people who ensure the compliance of all the legislation at
the workplace.
WHS consultants: These people are helpful in consulting regarding the WHS policies and
procedures at the workplace.
Team leaders: In order to manage the employees, there is a requirement of good leaders.
Financial resources: These are the resources in the form of money required to implement all
the necessary policies within a company (Kaynak, et. al., 2016).
The total budget for such resources is approved to $1 million and for such purpose the
approval of CEO is necessary.
5. Amendment in Wollongong Store WHS policy
Purpose: The purpose of the policy should be the safety of all the employees of the
organization along with complying with ethical and legal obligations. The main purpose of
the policy must be to ensure the safety and handling the risks and hazards in the workplace.
Scope: Scope of policy includes employees, employers and all associated human resources
off Wollongong Store.
Responsibility
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The responsibility and accountability will rest in the hands of managers, employees as well as
PCBU. The PCBU will ensure health and safety for the workers while they are working and
the employer or the managers will be responsible for implementing appropriately the
WHSMS. The employees have the responsibility to follow all WHS policies and procedures
along with reporting to the managers regarding all potential risks (Olds, et. al., 2017).
Relevant Legislation: work health and safety act 2011 (NSW)
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6. Report on proposed WHSMS
Introduction
This report is prepared in order to understand the current WHSMS in any organization and
proposing a better system and explain the features of the proposed WHSMS.
a. Description of features of proposed WHSMS
The WHSMS is considered as the set of the actions, plans as well as the procedures in order
to manage systematically the health as well as safety at the workplace which is also endorsed
by the committed employer of company to achieve. The proposed WHSMS is presented in
order to ensure the safety of the workers as well as the contractors of such workplace and
further implementing the effective risk management plans to manage the damages and the
risks at the workplace.
The required amendments in such WHSMS include the changes in the policies to handle the
risks as well as the changes in the roles, responsibilities, and authorities.
b. WHSMS meeting the legislative requirements including the description of the duty
holders
All the legislative requirements can be fulfilled with the help of the WHSMS. The main
purpose of such WHS management system is to ensure the safety and better health of
employees as well as the contractors at the workplace. This is possible to ensure all the
legislative requirements are met because this system helps the employees as well as an
employer to comply with all the related legislations of workplace health and safety.
Duty holders
PCBU: These are responsible for the safety of the officers, workers as well as the contractors
of the organizations. They are required to fulfill their duties and responsibilities in an
appropriate manner.
Officers: These are the people appointed by the employees of the company in order to ensure
workplace safety and the compliance of all the legislative requirements.
Workers: The workers are the people who work within a company and it is important for
them to inform regarding al the potential workplace risks and hazards to the senior managers.
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c. WHSMS meeting organizational requirements
It is the major requirement of any organization is to make sure that the employees, as well as
all associated people of the organization, are safe. The other requirement of an organization is
to make sure that all the legislative compliance is met by the company. The budget for the
resources of the company should also be met in order to make the organization cost-efficient.
These all the organizational needs are met through using the effective work health and safety
management system as it ensures the compliance of all these responsibilities of a business.
Conclusion
It can be concluded from this report that the proposed WHSMS is very effective for the
whole organization in order to meet all the legislative as well as the organizational
requirements.
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Assessment 2
Part A
1. Review the scenario
2. Review Appendices
3. Develop policy and procedures for WHS risk management
a. Organizations approach WHS risk management and commitment to legal compliance
In order to manage the WHS risks at the workplace, the company is using the approach of
WHSMS in which there are several numbers of elements included. These elements are safety
plan, policies, and procedures, training, and induction, monitoring, supervising as well as the
reporting. In order to comply with legal requirements, WHSMS is an effective approach.
b. Relevant legislation, codes of practices
Relevant legislations include the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW) and Occupational
Health and Safety Management Systems. The codes of practices are being used to manage the
risks t the workplace in an appropriate manner (Hammer, et. al., 2016).
c. procedure for identifying hazards
Following is the procedure for identifying the hazard and control the risks:
 Identifying hazard by carrying out the risk assessment at the workplace
 Determining the risk to employees
 Evaluation of the risks
 Recording as well as reviewing risks
 Take the initial measures to control the risks
d. Procedure for using, the hierarchy of control
Following are the hazards control in the hierarchy:
 Elimination
 Substitution of the risk
 Transferring the risk
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 Engineering control
 The control of the administration
 Personal protective types of equipment
e. Assisting the organization to comply with consultation requirements
 Identify as well as an assessment of risks to safety and health
 Deciding the modes to eliminate the risk
 Deciding the appropriateness of facilities of the welfare of workers
 Proposing the changes
 Consulting with the workers.
4. Develop recordkeeping policy and procedures
a. Incidents reports and risk register
Incident Type Number Affected person Wok days lost
Spillage in Fuel 20 Customers 0
Fire in the rubbish
bin
2 Staff 6
Slip-on the wet floor 3 5 employees 3
Burns 5 Employees 5
Risk Register
Number Risk Severity Treatment strategy
1. Risk of fire High Eliminate
2. Risk of spillage Medium Accept
3. Risks of accident Low Mitigate
Part B
Role Play WHS Consultation with the safety representative
In such a meeting between the WHS consultation with the safety representative, there was
discussed all the relevant safety measures that can be used within an organization to ensure
the health and safety of the employees (Potter, et. al., 2017).
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Part C Research aspects of WHS
In order to determine the storage of turpentine, petrol, paints as well as the poison, there may
be made the contact to the WorkCover authority for getting the proper advice. This
information would be gotten through the emails.
Part D: Roleplay of WHS consultation with the store manager
The meeting will be regarding the WHS risk such as the risk of fire and the measures to
control such risks will be discussed in this meeting. The safety measures that can be taken are
to work with safety and using the fireproof equipment.
Part E: Development of Risk Management Plan
. Timelines, resources, and actions
In order to control the risk, there is a need for setting a timeline to complete the risk
assessment and control which can be of 5 days. The resources required are human resources,
physical resources, and financial resources. The actions to be made to treat the risk are
avoidance, acceptance, transfer or elimination (Straker, et. al., 2016).
b. There will be developed the procedures of the safety of colleagues along with oneself.
c. Relevant changes in the procedure will be made as per the requirements of the risk
management plan.
d. In order to communicate the risk management plan to the employees of the organization,
there will be held a meeting where there will be discussed all the effective strategies to be
used to manage the risks in an appropriate manner.
e. There will be made the ongoing monitoring of such risk controlling activities through
conducting the scheduled auditing as well as testing.
F. There will be kept all the records such as the risk registers and the incident summaries
within the organization.
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Assessment 3
5. Evaluation Report
a. Three recommendations including the improvements to recordkeeping practices an
induction or training
1. It can be recommended for an organization to make the improvements in the recordkeeping
practices that there should be continuous review and auditing of such risk registers,
summaries of the accidents and other documents.
2. It can also be recommended to the company that training to the employees should be
provided not only to ensure the effective work but also that they perform their task with full
safety.
3. It is highly recommended to take the initial urgent measures in order to control the risks
identified by any employees and make the strategies to handle such risks.
b. Justification for recommendation
The recommendation made for the company is completely justified as these fulfill all the
internal as well as the external requirements of the organization. The recommendations are
completely in favor of the legislation and code of practice of Work Health and Safety. There
are requirements for reviewing all the records of the company as per the legislation.
6. Plan for the implementation of recommendation
a. There will be a regular review as well as the reporting of all the documents and registers
maintained in the records in order to ensure that there is no tempering made with the data.
b. There will be included the timelines and the deadlines to handle the particular risks and the
relevant resources that will be used for the purpose of mitigating the risks.
c. All the organizational requirements will be fulfilled because there will be complied all the
relevant legislation as well as the budget approved by the CEO of the company.
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