CIMIC Group Work Health and Safety Report Analysis

This report provides an overview of the work health and safety (WHS) practices within the CIMIC Group, an Australian engineering infrastructure company. It highlights the company's commitment to WHS, emphasizing legal compliance, employee and supervisor responsibilities, and the implementation of a WHS system. The report covers key aspects such as accident and incident reporting, hazard identification and risk assessment provisions, record-keeping mechanisms, and the different categories of hazards. It outlines the roles of employees, supervisors, and senior managers in maintaining a safe work environment. The report also discusses hazard identification during various stages of project execution and details mechanisms for hazard identification, risk assessment, and control. References to relevant research papers are included to support the analysis.

WORK HEALTH AND
SAFETY

CIMIC group company
Introduction
 Dedicated towards solving various issues
within Australia
 It is focused towards constructing
different types of engineering
infrastructures (Agrawal et al., 2016)
 The safe work act is among the major
legislation that is attached to the
organization
 One major model code of practice
involves the act of working with one
another

Work Health Safety System
 It is the intent of the entire organization
to clearly demonstrate every form of
ongoing and determined commitment
 The organization is also determined to
ensure that the health and safety work
that is attached to every employee
 Leading the whole industry through the
promotion of best practices

Actions for legal compliance
 compliance officers are always required
to deliver change programs that are more
effective.
 They are expected to monitor the
compliance with different types of
existing rule books

Requirements and provision for accidents and
incidents
 Employees to report any for of
occupational injury
 supervisor is required to tend to any form
of injury before making a report to the
safety officer.
 If any injury attached to the organization
is encountered, appropriate records must
always be kept

Employee responsibilities
 Respect the right and properties of other
personalities
 Consult with the organization’s supervisor
 Be aware of all the required safety
regulations (Macdonald, Driscoll, Stuckey
& Oakman, 2012).
 Report to work based on the
organization’s implemented
departmental working hours

Health and safety responsibility for the
supervisor
 They are responsible for ensuring that
every worker is well trained on safety
issues
 Should ensure adequate work place
inspections
 They are responsible for making sure that
all the regulatory compliance are met

Health and safety responsibility of the senior
manager
 Develop appropriate workplace safety
and health systems
 Providing and even maintaining the
workplace heath systems to adequately
guide the site management supervisors
on how they can safety run the site
operations

Hazard identification and risk assessment
provisions
 Physical assessment of the hazards
 Sampling of the hazards identified
 Reference to other forms of related
natural occurrences
 Nature of the organization, type of work
carried out together with the nature of
hazards identified will enable a proper
risk assessment and analysis to be
carried out

Record keeping requirements and mechanisms
 Record keeping must be able to collect,
recognize and even automatically store
records
 Must present stored information at any
given time
 Must be able to distinguish various
documents
 Record keeping must always be backed
up to avoid tampering with the records
during emergencies

Appropriate designated time for hazard
identification
 The identification of hazards is carried
out during design and implementation
process, before various tasks are carried
out and also while various tasks are being
done

Categories of hazards that might be identified
include;
 Biological hazards
 Chemical hazards
 -Physical hazards