Work Health and Safety: Legislation, Risk, and Consultation Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of work health and safety (WHS) obligations, policies, and procedures, emphasizing the roles and responsibilities of employees, supervisors, and managers in maintaining a safe working environment. It addresses key aspects of WHS risk management, including hazard identification, risk assessment, and the hierarchy of control, referencing relevant acts, standards, and codes of practice. The report also explores the importance of health and safety committees, training programs, and collaborative approaches to managing occupational health and safety. Practical elements such as incident and accident reporting, fire and emergency evacuation procedures, and the maintenance of WHS records are discussed, alongside the need for continuous updates on WHS legislation and policies. Furthermore, the document includes a risk audit form, detailing hazard identification, risk assessment, and control options, and provides insights into safety consultation strategies and team information needs. This report highlights the critical role of proactive safety measures and ongoing consultation to ensure a safe and healthy workplace.

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Table of Contents
Task 1..............................................................................................................................................3
Written questions...........................................................................................................................3
Task 3..............................................................................................................................................9
Case Studies....................................................................................................................................9
Case study 1....................................................................................................................................9
Case study 2..................................................................................................................................11
Task 4............................................................................................................................................13
Safety audit project......................................................................................................................13
Safety Consultation Strategy Planner....................................................................................13
Team information need identification....................................................................................14
Task 5............................................................................................................................................17
Participate in consultation process.............................................................................................17
References.....................................................................................................................................20
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Task 1
Written questions
QUESTION 1
Access the current WHS legislation in your State or Territory and describe the obligations of
each of the parties below:
Employees: worker must avoid the injury and do not involve in damaging the property and plan.
The worker must obey all the instruction given to the worker including wearing safety equipment
while working and report to the higher official in case of occurrence of any hazard.
Supervisor: supervisor must supervise their subordinate properly. The supervisor must respect
the worker and do not criticize their worker. Supervisors do not force its worker to do work.
Manager: the manager is responsible to provide a better and safer working atmosphere to their
worker. They provide proper hazard equipment to their worker.
QUESTION 2
How would you provide WHS information (obligations, policies, and procedures) to staff in your
workgroup and how will you manage adherence to associated policies and procedures?
The information related to safety and health policy could be provided to the worker by providing
proper training for hazard. Hoarding related to safety instruction are disseminated on the walls
of the working site. Safety drills were conducted at a regular interval to train the worker for the
disaster.
QUESTION 3
What are workplace information systems employed in workplaces to help control and manage
work risks and hazards? Identify at least five.
Workplace information system deal with all the information requires for controlling the risk.
These are
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1. Classification of machinery for knowing the prone of the hazard on the equipment
2. Labeling safety instruction on all the machinery
3. Educate the worker for the hazard
QUESTION 4
In the area of WHS risk management, define the hierarchy of control and describe how you
would use these control measures.
The following hierarchy is possible to control the hazard
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personal
proctective
equipment:
PPE is
provided to all
the worker
Management
Control:
control the
working operation
to avoid hazard
Control:
control the hazard
by engineering
procedure
Replace:
restore the hazard
Remove hazard:
various procedure
involve to remove
the hazard
physically

Here the effectiveness of the various processes to control the hazard is given by arrow. A more
effective process is at the head of the arrow.
QUESTION 5
Aside from the WHS Act, identify at least three other acts, standards or codes of practice that
guide your actions in relation to workplace safety
Electric safety act, 2002: this is an active set for auditing electric safety.
Australian standard, 1851: this is a standard set for fire safety within the organization
HB 76: it is the law set up for hazardous goods like radioactive goods etc. it involves the
licensing program, safety guide, amount of hazardous goods manufactures or use.
QUESTION 6
In your state or territory, when are organizations required to establish a health and safety
committee? Explain your answer
The organization is required to establish a health and safety community when the organization is
prone for the occurrence of the hazard or its infrastructure is built in a disaster-prone area or the
organization is employing too many workers. The health and community are responsible for
improving health facility in the organization.
QUESTION 7
True or false? ”Health and safety representatives do not require formal training, they simply use
common sense when making decisions.” Explain your answer
False, Science there were many issues related to health and safety in an organization and a
common person does not know all the laws related to health and safety that is why a proper
training is required. The life of each worker is important and an organization does not afford to
lose its worker due to health and hazard.
QUESTION 8
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True or false? "Once health and safety policies and procedures have been written, they should
never be altered, even if they are ambiguous and confusing." Explain your answer
False, science the organization always introduce new machinery and process for working in the
organization that is why organization have to tally its health and safety procedure from time to
time. The proper hazard drill in an organization helps the worker to clarify al the doubt on the
new safety policies
QUESTION 9
Apart from the legislative requirements, describe in your own words why you believe it is
important for organizations to adopt a collaborative and consultative approach to managing
occupational health and safety
Science the maximum operational work is done by the worker and they gain an additional
experience to work on machinery than the managing team. They were most prone to struck with
an accident so a joint collaboration of worker, manager, an executive is required to safeguard
from a hazard.
QUESTION 10
How would you suggest that organizations who are not required to establish a health and safety
committee, undertake the following?
a) Provide information to work for teams on identified hazards and risks.
The information about the hazard can be provided by pasting hoarding of safety
instruction on the machinery. And give a working guideline to worker
b) Record and address safety issues raised by staff.
The record of various hazards can be kept on the register manually or organization can
also keep a record on their operating system, for the easy tally of data.
c) Communicate to staff members the outcomes of issues raised.
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The organization must provide a friendly environment for working so that the worker can
approach the higher managing authority for any problems.
QUESTION 11
Describe two (2) instances where you have personally delivered training or coaching to
colleagues or team members in the area of workplace health and safety. In your description
please include:
In this context the team is created which play a role of various official members of an
organization; the team discusses the work health and safety issue in the organization and also
discusses the safety audit process conducted by the industry. The first hazard is identified by the
proper inspection then a proper record is maintained of the audit and then meeting is set to
discuss and solve the problem of the safety in that organization.
QUESTION 12
a) When should incident and accident forms be completed, and how do these records
contribute to the identification and possible prevention of workplace incidents and
accidents?
The incident and accident form is completed when any worker or industry struck with an
accident or hazard, this form helps to kept track of the various possibilities of the hazard.
this information helps to prevent the future occurrence of the accident.
b) What other WHS records should be kept (List at least three).
The WHS record also contains various things like material data safety sheet, audit report,
the record of health surveillance and monitoring report of the workplace.
QUESTION 13
Consider the need for a fire and emergency evacuation procedure in a workplace. Identify the
key content you believe should be included.
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Fire hazard is quite sensitive as there were many causes of occurrence of the fire hazard. It is
also quite destructive as it has a tendency for spreading. Every organization must have a fire and
emergency evacuation to protect the workers. The government also audits for fire safety of all
the organization to safeguard the worker from the fire.
QUESTION 14
Explain how you keep up to date with changes to WHS legislation, WHS policies and procedures
and other WHS matters.
The organization must keep updating themselves regards to new WHS legislation, policies and
procedure to keep them away from the legislative actions. Although government ordered
warning notice relative to new law before imposing them by advertisement, the company keeps
checking on the new laws from time to time for safety.
QUESTION 15
Sometimes it is not possible to eliminate all risk. What action should be taken to report residual
risk?
The company must train their worker for various residual risk and hazard; this could be done by
taking proper hazard drill from time to time. The company kept the record on the hazard using
modern engineering technique like thermal sensor, heat map scale etc. so as to avoid the
condition of hazard while operation.
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Risk Audit Form 1
Student Name: Date of audit:
Hazard Identification Use this space to identify and record a range of hazards
Description of hazard Associated risk Person/s risk
Fire Fire involves higher risk due
to these lots of stocks; assets
are damaged due to this.
It can be handled by many
persons.
Floods Floods are a natural disaster
no one can handle it.
No one can handle this
Expired materials If the company is producing
eatable items so it could be
expired with time if it is not
sold out before time otherwise
it got wasted.
Handled by more than
10persons
Power connections Power connections are the
main issue in any
organization or if talk about
the manufacturing companies
so they use machines which
are all run by the power and
sometimes it gives the
negative effects happen
We cannot determine in
words but it needs at least
10people to organize this.
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sometimes many injuries are
happening with people so
associates have to take care of
these kinds of hazards.
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Risk Assessment
Possible control options: Having identified the hazards, you then have to decide how likely it is
that harm will occur, i.e. the level of risk and what to do about it. Try to use many activities to
reduce risks which are mentioned above.
Preferred control options (and why):
identification of risks
assess the hazard
the severity of the risk involved in work
eliminate those risk
Risk control: controlling the risk it is very necessary to understand the risk measures what are
its impacts on the organization and then at last how to eliminate those risk involved in the
business. Evaluate the data which is causing the risk and brings in the work. For controlling the
risk/ hazards they are some steps a company should follow to reduce it. Elimination of that task
which brings the risk in the work and takes substitute of those which can help to achieve the goal
with the same amount of risk or absence of risk after that isolation of the risk done, reduce the
size of risk.
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Control option (refer to the hierarchy of control):
 Abolish
 Ancillary
 Isolate
 Engineering controls
Administrative controls
Unexpected protective equipment’s: administrative controls are that which give the time to the
workers for presenting their work in an effective manner. Some examples of this are as follows:
 Giving laborers longer rest periods or shorter work movements to decrease introduction
time;
 Moving an unsafe work procedure to a zone where fewer individuals will be uncovered;
 Changing a work procedure to a move when fewer individuals are working;
 Clear and decipherable signage are authoritative apparatus for correspondence and
control of risks at work environments (case on the right) ;
 The consistency of administrative arrangements is the best regulatory control
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