HLTWHS001: Ensuring Health and Safety in the Workplace - A Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of workplace health and safety (WHS) practices, focusing on the HLTWHS001 unit. It details essential workplace procedures for maintaining a safe environment, including hazard identification, risk assessment, and emergency protocols. The report emphasizes the importance of implementing safe work practices, reporting hazards, and maintaining housekeeping duties. It also covers the significance of employee contributions to safety, raising WHS issues, and participating in WHS meetings. A reflective section highlights the role of a WHS service provider in promoting a healthy work culture and addressing issues like stress and fatigue. Finally, the report discusses the importance of safety signs and their purpose in preventing workplace incidents. Desklib offers a wide range of study resources, including past papers and solved assignments, to support students in mastering similar topics.

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TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
PART - 1..........................................................................................................................................3
1.Workplace procedures need to follow in relation to health and safety....................................3
2. An emergency procedure with assessment.............................................................................4
3. Implementing safe work practices..........................................................................................5
4. Reporting hazards or risks in the workplace...........................................................................5
5. Housekeeping duties is a responsibility..................................................................................6
6. Contribution to safe work practices........................................................................................6
7. Raising WHS issues................................................................................................................6
8. WHS meetings........................................................................................................................6
PART - 2..........................................................................................................................................7
Reflection....................................................................................................................................7
PART - 3..........................................................................................................................................8
Locating at least 3 safety signs explaining the purpose of it......................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Health and safety is the regulations and procedure which is essentially required by a
management and organisation to adopt and implement it for the betterment of the employee. The
main purpose of implenting the workplace health and safety is to prevent the people from
harmful hazards and risk areas from which they cannot be able to get injured. The report will
illustrate the importance of the WHS at the workplace and mentioned the different areas and
practices which will help the management to provide the safety working environment (Salguero-
Caparrós, Pardo-Ferreira and et.al., 2020). Along with this, it will also include the reflection area
where it will demonstrate the improvement area an individual person can adopt to increase the
awareness of the WHS and also mentioend the signs and it purposes to be locate at the workplace
to prevent the risk.
MAIN BODY
PART - 1
1.Workplace procedures need to follow in relation to health and safety
To run any kind of business, it is required to keep the focus on the health and safety
environment of the employee from where they can be able to feel comfortable at the workplace.
An employer is responsible to look out for the safety measures of the employee and from which
they can easily contribute their efforts at the workplace and can make the business to grow
definitely (Ling, Ching, Widitaputra, Stewart, Sirijindadirat and et.al., 2018). Here, putting some
of the procedure which is needed to be followed in relation to healthy and safet workplace
environment.
 The employer has to follow the general safety procedures as keeping sign boards on the
wet and staire like places.
 Do not run on floor as it will cause a harm and injury.
 Identify the hazards so that it can be prevented.
 Bold labelling of chemical substances.
 A proper wokrplace safety first aid and medical care.
 List of guidance to aware the employee of the hazards and risk at the particular location
and place.

Hazard identification procedure with assessment outlining the following:
The definition of a hazard: A hazard is a potential source and a substance from which an
individual person can be able to harm and get affected by the different source which will provide
an injury. A hazard can be of anything, any circumstances and any source such as electricity,
chemicals, property and such more.
Hazards relevant to your workplace: There are different kinds of hazards takes place at the
any workplaces where it includes biological, chemicals, physical, ergonomic, pyschosocial and
such more where keeping the focus on prevention of the different hazards can help teh employer
to lower down the risk areas efficiently (Yanar, Amick III, Lambraki and et.al., 2019). The
hazards can be of anything such as wet floors from where the employee can slip down, get shock
from the electricity equipements, risk of getting harm and burn by chemicals.
PPE relevant to your workplace: The PPE is used to prevent from hazards at the occupational
places from where the employee and staff memebrs can feel healthy and safe working
environment. The proper training is required to be adopted at the workpalce from where the staff
people can be able to provide the safety guidance with different methods and sources sich as
signb boards. A proper maintaincance should be done by the staff cleaners so that the floor can
be kep clean and proper scheduling of teh maintaicne should be prepared. Also, the safety
footwear, eye protection, gloves, helmets equipments should be given to the employee working
at the sites.
2. An emergency procedure with assessment
At workpalce, any kind of sututaion and mishappening can be generated from where the
employee and staff people has to be trained in the wokrplace emergency procedures. The
organization should focus on these areas where they can create and provide a locationof
emergency exit (Uzun, Öztürk and Gürcanlı, 2020). A proper place of keeing the first aid and
procedures of all medical attendants so that the treatment of curing the patient canbe done
actively and within a definite time. Keeping the fire extinguishers for prevention of the fire
situations. Along with this, providing the access to the first aid supplies or equipements as
respondent requires to treat the patient appropriately at the occupational place. In today life, there
are different types of hazards has been developed so that a proper sheltering should be gven to
the employee in natural disaster cases where the distinct warning signal should be sounded from
where the people can be able to move at the strongest part of the building.

Emergency procedure Action plan
Exit danger zone The organisation should create a exit gate for the emergency fro
where the people of the company can get a exit from that gate and
can save up their life.
Close main shutoff When so ever, the emergency occurs close the main shutoff from
where the risk has been occurring.
Call for external aid Immediately call the external aids such as ambulance, fire
extinguishers and such others.
Initiate rescue operations The company always created a rescue plan and operation where it
is the time to implement that plan in accurate manner.
3. Implementing safe work practices
Each and every individual organization and business has to implement the workplace
safety practices so that the employee and emplyer both can stay at safe and healthy working
environment. Here, mentioning some safe work practioces which should be implemented
accordingly:
Training to the employee: Providing the proper training to the employee to prevent from the
injury at the workpalces and train or eductae them to deal with these circustamces to cure the
employee and themselves with definite understanding (Tetzlaff, Goggins, Pegoraro and et.al.,
2021).
Rewarding system: Rewarding the employee for the proper conern and mintaininace of the
work safety behavior is the best way to encourgae the workplace safety policies to prevent the
risk.
Labels and signs: Labelling and keeping the sign borad is the cheapest communication and
guidnace way from where the employer can adopt this procedure to detail the hazards and risk of
teh particular place.
Proper Maintainance: A messy workplace can leads to unwanted accidents which cause the
major injury sometimes where the management has the responsibilities to inspect the potential
dangers areas on regular basis which will reduce the accidents and injuries.

Regular Meetings: A regular meetings with the employee and staff members to talk about the
health and safety measures from where how the management can improve it and deal with some
situtaions which helps to protect the employee more specifically.
4. Reporting hazards or risks in the workplace
An individual whenever they have to report the hazards and risk at the workplace they
have to direct contact and communicate with the supervisor or an employer so that they must
know about the hazard area and can overcome the risk in appropriate manner (Evangelinos,
Fotiadis, Skouloudis, Khan and et.al., 2018). At many organisations and workpalces, they
implement a health and safety legilsation where workers can report to the employer, supervisor
and safety committe so that the reoccurance of the incidents can be prevented. If the employer
and supervisor avoids the workplace hazard then the employee can contact the government
department to resolve the concern they are getting at the place.
Action plan
Conduct regular inspections The organisation management is required to
conduct a regular inspection of risk and hazard
where it will allow them to understand the risk.
Interview employee and worker Always take a feedback and communicate with
them in regard to any risk and hazard issue.
Creation of hazard map After that a creation of risk and hazard map top
control and overcome the risk at the workplace.
5. Housekeeping duties is a responsibility
As a responsbile person, the employer and WHS service provider has a duty to miantain
the safe housekeeping practices on a regular basis which will ensure that the working area is
clean and maintained properly. Housekeeping is not always a cleanliness but it also includes
minataining the wet floor and walk ways, removing the trip hazards, entrance and exist should be
maintained properly, a proper dust free environment should be provided so that these practices
will remove the risk areas and provide the safe and healthy surrounding (Arradini, 2020).
6. Contribution to safe work practices
An employer has a duty and responsibility to provide the safe and healthy work
surrounding to teh employee so that they can be able to put their best efforts in work and can

improve the results appropriately. Implementation of the safety program is required which
contribute to safe work practices effectively. Encourgaing the employee to follow and adopt the
legilsation regarding the work place safety can help to prevent the risk areas. Providing the safety
working equipements so that it will help the employee to not get injured by substances like
chemicals and electricity areas. Along with this, a regular communication with the emploee will
encourgae them to speak out their difficulties are they are facing in relation to safety
environment.
7. Raising WHS issues
An individual person can be able to riase their work safety issues with their supervisor
and employer from where they can be able to identigy and understand teh hazrad and difficultuy
the employee are facing. It is an important act of the WHS to promote the better healthy and safe
environment where the employee can consult with the healtha nd safety committee effectively.
Also, they can communicate with the WHS representative to prevent the risk areas and can
contribute to the better workplace environment (Olcay, Temur and Sakalli, 2021).
8. WHS meetings
The WHS meetings are important to be organzied from where the people can be able to
get comfortable at their workplaces. Organizing a meeting includes the discussion of work roles,
rosters, equipements, costing and funding, process and the progress so that the hazard can be
reduced in the definite manner. A proper meeting structure plan helps to keep the focus on the
problem employee are facing.
PART - 2
Reflection
Being a WHS service provider, I am required to understand the need of safe work
environment and from which ways I can be able to prmote the healthy work safety surrounding.
To improve the safe work practices I am required to collect the relevant information reltated to
the healthy workplace area. The resources can include the telephonic advices, in-house source
information, by using the technology where videos will provide the appropriate knwoldge.
Being a service provider, I will imporve myself in providing the better work culture from where
the employee cannot feel uncomfortable and can demonstrate themselves as work safety
concerns (Steel, Godderis and Luyten, 2018). I will also implement the necessarry principles and
policies related to occupational safety so that the employee can be abel to feel safe.

There are many organisation who do not focus on WHS where it increases the level of
stress and fatigue which directlt affect the particular role of the employee to contribute their
skills and knowledge in making the organisation and business to grow effectively. The term
fatigue simply means where a person feel tired physically and mentally exhausted within the
workplace surrounding from which it directly imapcts the productivity. Stress and Fatigue both
leads the employee to feel weak and leads them to suffer from increase blood pressures, elevated
heart rates, depression and such more which causes them to move forward towards the hazards
and risk at occupational place (Calle, Sigcha, Guaman and Siguenza-Guzman, 2020). A person
in depression and stress cannot be able to take any decision appropriately and causes them an
unwanted accidents.
PART - 3
Locating at least 3 safety signs explaining the purpose of it
The prohibition signs are important to be locate at the workplace from which it will
create an awareness of the place that is harmful for the emplyee. The above mentioned picture is
showing the no entry sign board which means no individual is allow to go at the place as it
contains the risk and hazard.

The above mentioned sign board is a mandatory type of sign which is required
necessarily to be consider and locate at the workplaces. This sign board is providing an
awareness to the empoyee to wear the essentail equipemnts like face mask, eye protection, fire
doors to be closed at the area is very risky to go without covering the body.
The organisation and business also required to keep the sign board of wet floor as in the
previous studies, it has been evaluated that there are many cases where the employee got harmed
and injured due to wet floor and surface from which they lead to cause themselves by slip down.
CONCLUSION
The report has concluded the brief meaning and significance of the workplace health and
safety areas which si required to be considered effectively. The WHS play a cricual and vital role
in the growth and development of the organization and business. The report has deatiled about
the different situstion of the WHS safety measures and practices which an employer can adopt
and implementat for the betterment of the employee and organisation as well. It has also included
the reflection area where it mentioend the safe working practices and methods of the
improvement. Along with this, it has mentioned the major three sign baords and its usefulness to
be locate at the workplace

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