Work Health and Safety Policy Analysis for Growth Management

This report provides an analysis of the Work Health and Safety (WHS) policy for Growth Management Consultants. It examines the existing policy, identifies areas for improvement, and proposes revisions to address the specific needs of the organization, including employees working from home and those traveling for work. The report emphasizes the importance of duty of care, risk management, and the obligations of workers, management, contractors, and business executives in maintaining a safe working environment. It also outlines the key components of a revised WHS policy, including communication and consultation practices, hazard identification, and risk control measures. The analysis references relevant legislation and explores the responsibilities of various stakeholders in ensuring employee health and safety, offering a comprehensive overview of WHS management within the organization.

Growth Management Consultants
WORK HEALTH AND
SECURITY TRAINING
PROGRAM

WHS Management System or the Work Health and Safety
Management Systems are defined as the methodology for
addressing the health and safety in a particular
organization conducted in a systematic way. For this
particular purpose, there are legislative measures adopted
that each and every organization is bound to follow.
WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY

Growth Management Consultants has an existing Work
Health and Safety Policy developed for the organization.
They can be listed as follows:
• The definitions of the people at duty need to be included
into the policy under the Work Health and Safety
legislation.
• The inspection of the types of the hazards needs to be
justified and investigated for having a broadened idea
about the pre-operations of the regular inspections
including the inspections related to the work from home
facilities.
WHS POLICIES IN GROWTH
MANAGEMENT
CONSULTANTS

• The existing Health and Safety Policy refers to the
strategy of consulting with the employees of the
organization as well before implementing any new idea
about the WHS procedures, but it previously did not
specify how it would have the ability to occur. The
organization was in the need for suitable
communications and consulting arrangements as the
procedure development needed to be justified and
identified.
WHS POLICIES IN GROWTH
MANAGEMENT
CONSULTANTS

• The existing WHS policy and procedures had referred to
the identification of the hazards and the control of risks
in general (Johnstone 2016). However, the organization did
not have any developed policy and procedure for WHS
systems for the employees working from home or the
Management Consultants who would travel outside for
the acquisition of customers all across Australia. The
management consultants were regular with travelling
and working from home and thus these areas were
required to be addressed. Thus, the procedure also
needed to be specified in the new policy
WHS POLICIES IN GROWTH
MANAGEMENT
CONSULTANTS

• The particular reason for which the organizations utilise
the WHS Acts in the business policies is because the
WHS Act aims at providing the organizations with
minimizing the health and safety risks at work for the
workers and the employees in the organization.
• The WHS Act ensures that the risk minimization to the
health and safety of the workers is ensured by the proper
utilization of the fair and effective treatment of the day
to day activities of the employees.
PURPOSE OF THE WFH ACT

Duty of care can be defined as the legislative measures by
which a person, or even a group of people are obligated to
look for the safeguards of the other people working under
them. This usually happens for the people within an
organization in the executive posts taking care of their
employees (Newnam et al. 2019).
MEANING OF DUTY OF CARE

• The workers are obligated to take care of their own
health and safety in the workplace.
• The work KRI of a person does not mention about taking
care of the co-workers to ensure proper health and
safety feasibility to them, but it is one of the obligations
of the workers at their workplace (Chmiel, Fraccaroli and
Sverke 2017). Not just it ensures a harmonious work
environment, but would also make sure that the
employees lookout for each other at every hazardous
situation regarding the health and safety adversaries at
the workplace.
OBLIGATIONS OF WORKERS
AT WORK

• The business organization needs to consult and
communicate with the employees in the organization
about the WHS roles and responsibilities.
• They need to care for the employees with the help of
proper legislations for anticipating all the possible
causes of the hazardous situation in the workplace to
make sure that the physical and mental health of the
employees are not being compromised.
OBLIGATION OF A BUSINESS TO
CONSULT AND COMMUNICATE WITH
THE WORKERS

• Workers: The employees or the workers within the
organization are responsible for taking care of
themselves as well as their colleagues to ensure proper
maintenance of health and safety for each other.
• Management: The management is responsible for
ensuring a safe working environment, enable safe
systems at work, ensure safe working conditions,
supervise the health and safety of the employees in the
workplace analysing their stress levels.
• Contractors: These people are responsible for ensuring
safety measures in their code of conduct for themselves
and the employees as well.
• Business executives/CEO: The CEO of the organization
is responsible for the establishment of a WHS
responsibility policy at the work complied as per the
PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WHS
RESPONSIBILITIES AT THE
WORKPLACE

• The people would still be defined and informed about the duty
that they would require to be performing within the office and
outside the office devices falling under the Work Health and
Safety legislations (Siegrist, Wahrendorf and Siegrist 2016).
• The investigation of having a broadened idea is attained that
describe how the work from home facilities would be look forward
to and how the duty holders would behave under the WHS
legislation.
• It would be required to analyse the entire office and work from
home facility promisors to understand what would be e the WHS
legislation related hazards and risk control facility would also be
documented as a part of the plan.
• The communication and consultation practices would also be
included among the best practice WHS legislation.
OUTLINE OF THE REVISED WHS
POLICY IN GROWTH MANAGEMENT
CONSULTANT

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