Report on Improving the Role of Legislator: WHS Laws and Practices

This report investigates the enhancement of the legislator's role, primarily within the context of Australian Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) laws. It highlights the importance of a nationally consistent framework for WHS, emphasizing the role of states, Commonwealth, and territories in implementing these laws. The report discusses the objectives of the WHS Act, which include protecting employees, ensuring effective representation, and promoting cooperation. It explores the use of codes of practice as practical guides to meet WHS standards, noting their role in providing guidance and demonstrating compliance. The report also outlines the National Compliance and Enforcement Policy, aimed at ensuring a consistent approach to compliance and enforcement of WHS laws. The references include academic journals that support the analysis of the topic.

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Contents
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How could the role of the legislator be improved in your view?................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

How could the role of the legislator be improved in your view?
There is need to improve role of legislator in so that laws are implemented in effective
way. This can be done in many ways..
Within the year 2011 , A single set of WHS laws to be applied all over Australia developed by
Safe Work Australia. These are called as a ‘model’ laws. Thus for such WHS Laws becomes
more legal binding ,states, Commonwealth as well as territories that can separately applied them
as according to their own laws.
The main objectives of such act is to give a nationally consistent and balanced Framework to
secure health as well as safety of employees and workplaces. It does this through
Protecting employees as well as other persons from any kind of harm by needed of duty holders
to reduce or eliminates risk (Kussmaul,,and Boyd, 2019)
Giving for effective and fair representation ,cooperation and consultation.
Boosting unions as well as employer firms to take constructive roles within promoting the
improvements regarding WHS practices.
It also promotes provision of information, advice, training and education for WHS.
It assures relevant scrutiny as well as reviews of actions taken through persons who have power.
It also gives a framework for an improvement which is consistent.
It strengthening and maintaining national harmonization of WHS laws as well as facilitating a
regular approach regarding WHS.
Here, some code of practice can be applied as well to improve role of legislator.
Codes of practices
These are the practical guides to accomplish the standards regarding health as well as safety
under the model WHS act and regulations.
Within Jurisdiction a model of code of practices should be applied there. To analysis if a mode
of code of practice has been applied within a specified jurisdiction.
An already approved code regarding practice can be implied to everyone who has duty of care
within situation focuses in the code. Several cases by following an approved code accomplish
compliance in health and safety duties within a Jurisdiction known as WHS Act as well as
regulation. Such as codes of practice, regulations deals with specified issues as well as unable to
cover all risks or hazards that may occurs. Health as well as safety duties needs to consider all
the risks that are interlinked with work not only risks that regulates as well as codes of practices

that are present for. While such approved codes of practices are admissible within court
proceedings but not considered as a law. Courts might also considered on an approved code of
practice as an evidence of known about risks, hazards or control as well as depends on
appropriate code to describes that what can be reasonable practicable within situations. (Akella,
, 2020)
Enforcement policy and National compliance
Ministers of WHS have agreed regarding National Compliance as well as enforcement policy
that aids the WHS laws model through assuring a nationally regular approach to compliance as
well as enforcement.
The policy that focuses on principles of WHS regulators and aims of enforcement and
compliance will also take to enforcing as well as monitoring compliance alongside laws of
WHS.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Kussmaul, J.,and Boyd, M., 2019. Workplace environment for nurses and healthcare assistants in
residential aged care facilities in New Zealand. Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing,
The, 36(4), p.6.
Akella, D., 2020. Workplace Bullying Laws in Australia and New Zealand. In Understanding
Workplace Bullying (pp. 237-250). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.