BSBWHS501 Leadership Assignment: Ensuring a Safe Workplace

This leadership assignment focuses on ensuring a safe workplace, particularly within the mining industry. It addresses key aspects of work health safety (WHS) including the importance of maintaining accurate records, the role of a PCBU (Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking), and the identification and mitigation of workplace hazards. The assignment emphasizes the need for a training-needs approach to educate the workforce and ensure supplier compliance with safety requirements. It highlights the significance of competent training staff, quality equipment, and well-trained first-aid officers in minimizing risks. Furthermore, the report suggests improvements to WHS policies, such as higher compensations for incidents and legal compliance with industry standards. The document concludes by advocating for the recruitment of a WHS training team and the evaluation of employee satisfaction to enhance safety measures.

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Task 1
In relation to work health safety the forms, registers and records maintained by the
company includes:
1. Incident reports
2. Safety Regulation questionnaires
3. Registers of Near-misses
These records help the organization asses the emerging problems with the present work
environment (Schaufeli and Taris 2014). A PCBU is a person engaged in the conduction of
business and undertakings. These are entities that enter into business transactions and hence act
as business units within the same. These records would ensure that the PCBU is able to identify
the lacking features in its work health safety policy and thus would result in a safer work
environment.
In the context of Work Health Safety the contributory departments would be able to
assess the lacking provisions and would be able to identify the gaps in building in ,a concrete
work health safety policy. The company’s current work health safety mechanism provides for a
mode of protection that is merely considered with the working of the organization whereas its
primary purpose is ensuring that organizations gain amicable solutions in terms of
implementable provisions relating to safety (DuBois and Miley 2013). In work health safety
meetings the importance of health hazards directly resulting from mining activities are often
brought up as causes in various safety related disputes. This has been brought up in several
meetings.

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In the organization a training-needs approach needs to be adopted in order to identify the
key areas in which the workforce would have to be educated. Moreover, the training needs
approach also ensures that any entity acting as a supplier or facilitator would have to ensure that
they meet the safety requirements of the organization as well.
The examples of work hazards within a professional environment include the incidence
of various entities which act in furtherance of the same. This is especially true for equipment
companies that act with mining companies (Zwetslootet al. 2013). If the equipment provided by
these companies do not provide adequate safety measures the same could result in a loss of life
and livelihood for an employee of the company. Another hardship faced by the mining industry
is the occurrence of poisonous gas within the mines. These can lead to a loss of life and can
hence result in the payment of exorbitant compensation amounts and settlements.
In the workplace incident reports are primary examples of documentary evidence that
helps identify health hazards. Additionally, the identified issues in organizations working within
the same sphere are an important example of already occurring occupational hazards. Moreover,
the use of regular training material, to be used on updated machinery is also an example of the
modes of identification of health hazards in the workplace.
Task 2
The most important aspect of eliminating the risk involved in mining ventures relates to
the use of competent training staff to ensure the staff is prepared to handle the mandates of the
project. Thus machinery training and the adequate training of on-site protocol is absolutely
essential in terms of the way in which there projects are undertaken (Giovannone 2016). Thus the

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employment of an adequately qualified training team is a must for any venture and would form
the first part of any kind of safety policy.
The second part of the policy would relate to a test of the quality of provided equipment
for the same.
Storage issues are another factor to consider when ac ting on behalf of a mining
corporation. Thus the staff must be trained to understand the implications of their activities
within the mining facility and thus would have to be held accountable for their actions within the
sphere of the same.
First-aid officers are another important part of mini9ng operations. These officers ensure
that in the event of an accident the effected party is given the fastest possible healthcare within
the ambit of its operations (Australia 2014). In the context of the mining industry it can also be
considered that such officers have a bearing in the mortality rate of the officers.
In such a company, the formal procedure for recording hazards would be though incident
reports and journals recording the same. These would detail health hazards that appear within the
same at regular intervals.
The mode of WHS audits in such a venture would consist of officers being appointed to
conduct the same and would in most cases be based on the injuries caused to its employees
(Pheasant 2014). Risk assessment control can only be implemented though a training team and
thus a team with the same effect would have to be recruited.

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Task 3
In the event of declining WHS measures the most important step to take is the
recruitment of a WHS training team this would ensure that the training of individuals is
effectuated within a reasonable time and thus would be profitable for the venture (Brauer2016).
The second step to take in case of declining WHS progress is the evaluation of employee
satisfaction within the same system of WHS policies. These would help identify additional
hazards which need to be looked at by the company. The third step would be the implementation
of employee questionnaires which deal with such issues and these would help reduce the on-site
hazards present at the moment.
In terms of the usage of electrical equipment, the company may need assistance from a
regulatory authority that deals in the same. This is because the irresponsible use of the same
could lead to a loss of life and property. Hence the company would need help regarding the
same.
An important improvement which can be incorporated into the framework of WHS
policies are higher compensations in case of incidents (Australia 2013). This would raise the
credibility of the WHS policy as well as enhance its subscription.
In terms of legal compliance to WHS policies it is important for all organizations to have
a low rate of incident reports relating to safety failures. It would also be crucial for such parties
to ensure that they have equipment that meets the minimum industry standards.

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