BSB41415 Certificate IV: Workplace Health and Safety Research Analysis

This assignment presents a research analysis on workplace health and safety (WHS) issues, focusing on Awesome Landscape. It investigates poor maintenance of premises, lack of workplace design, and inspection, identifying potential hazards such as falling, physical, electrical, and fire hazards. The research utilizes government websites and online resources, including Australia.gov.au and Business.gov.au, along with relevant legislation. The analysis follows an interpretivism approach, with qualitative data analysis. The solution emphasizes the importance of hazard identification, reporting protocols, and employee training to mitigate risks and ensure a safe working environment. The assignment adheres to specific requirements, including sourcing research from organizational policies, WHS legislation, and online resources. The reliability of the sources is assessed, and any inconsistencies are addressed, providing a comprehensive overview of WHS challenges and solutions.

Research Analysis
Topic Research content Source
Legislative
support for the
Awesome
Landscape
regarding their
workplace
health and
safety issue.
Poor maintenance of the premises :
Improper maintenance of work premises in terms of
repairing and wiring system can result various hazards
including the falling hazards, physical hazards, electrical
hazards and fire hazards which can cause permanent
damage to persons and the business properties.
In case of any hazard the management of awesome
landscape should take the responsibility for treating
their injured workers with providing compensations.
The operational management and the human resource
management of Awesome Landscape should make
appropriate hazard identification and reporting protocol
for all the employees to eliminate all the potential causes
of the hazards.
Awesome Landscape has to train their employees
through both on job and event based training regarding
the health and safety procedures and their importance.
The hazard identification and reporting process can be
informed to the employees.
Lack of workplace design and inspection
Because of the poor workplace design the wrongly
designed floor and ceiling can cause various hazards
including the falling hazards, physical hazards which can
Australia.gov.au. 2018. WHS (Workplace health
and safety) | australia.gov.au. [online] Available at:
https://www.australia.gov.au/information-and-
services/jobs-and-workplace/whs-workplace-health-
and-safety [Accessed 14 Dec. 2018].
Business.gov.au. 2018. Work Health and Safety
(OHS) acts, regulations and codes of practice.
[online] Available at:
https://www.business.gov.au/risk-management/h
ealth-and-safety/whs-oh-and-s-acts-regulations-
and-codes-of-practice [Accessed 14 Dec. 2018].
Reliability of
source
Both of these sources are
government website made for online
occupational health and safety related
guidance of the existing and new
organisations
How
ambiguities,
inconsistencie
s,
inadequacies
or
contradictions
were dealt
with.
The sources ware found in
online link and from many discussion
forum regarding workplace health
and safety compliance. Each and
every pages of this websites was
visited to find the information. The
information were compared with the
offline guideline provided by the local
authority.

Research Analysis
Topic Research content Source
cause the musculoskeletal disorders.
In case of any hazard the management should take all
the responsibility for treating their injured workers while
arranging appropriate compensations.
The organisation should make appropriate hazard
identification and reporting protocol for all the
Method used
to source
information
The source ware presented in
Harvard referencing style. Both of
these references are online links.
Therefore the references have been
made accordingly.
Use of data
analysis in
this piece of
research.
The data analysis of this
research is qualitative. This research
is adductive research to collect
appropriate information from various
sources. Therefore the research
analysis followed the interpretivism
approach for data analysis.

FOR THE ASSESSOR AND THE CANDIDATE:
Checklist – Does the research analysis meet the
following requirements?
Y/N
1. Includes at least three different pieces of research. Y
2. Each piece of research indicates the method in which it
was sourced.
Y
3. Research must be from a. Your organisation’s Policies
and procedures, b. WHS/OHS legislation and c. Either
an Australian Standard or Code of Practice.
Y
4. At least one piece of research must be sourced from the
Internet through an Internet search.
Y
5. At least one piece of research must be sourced from the
WHS legislation, in each instance the reference to the
part of the legislation is included.
Y
6. The research must include training and an appropriate
supplier of the training required.
Y
7. Each piece of research must indicate an objective – why
was it needed?
Y
8. Each piece of research has an indication of the
reliability of the source where you obtained the
information.
Y
9. Given the reliability of the information, an explanation is
provided covering how you dealt with any
inconsistencies, ambiguities, inadequacies or
contradictions.
Y