A Report on Workplace Policies, Procedures, Ethical, Health and Safety

This report provides an overview of essential workplace policies, procedures, and ethical considerations within the Australian legal framework. It identifies key laws such as the Fair Work Act 2009, anti-discrimination laws, and the Work Health and Safety Act 2011, emphasizing the importance of fair employment practices, equal opportunity, and employee safety. The report also addresses ethical issues like inadequate health and safety measures and work-life balance, suggesting solutions such as improved safety protocols and policies against after-hours work disturbances. Furthermore, it discusses the significance of personal protective equipment (PPE) and emergency preparedness in the workplace, outlining steps for effective emergency planning and response. The document concludes by referencing relevant books, journals, and online resources, offering a comprehensive analysis of workplace dynamics and compliance in Australia. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments.

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Table of Contents
Part A...............................................................................................................................................3
List any policies, procedures, requirements, guidelines and codes that a workplace
organisation should have in place...............................................................................................3
Students need to identify two existing or possible ethical issues relevant to their role..............4
Part B...............................................................................................................................................4
1. What is the name of your relevant work health and safety legislation in your state or
territory?......................................................................................................................................4
2. Review your organisation’s policies regarding PPE (personal protection equipment).
Describe one situation you would need to use PPE for and how you would use it....................4
3. Describe one possible emergency situation and what you are required to do if it occurs......5
REFERNCES:..................................................................................................................................7
Books and Journals:....................................................................................................................7
Online..........................................................................................................................................7

Part A
List any policies, procedures, requirements, guidelines and codes that a workplace organisation
should have in place.
The laws that are applicable in workplace of Australia are as follows:
 Fair Work Act, 2009: This law shows the relationship between employer and employee.
It is vital that all the employees are given fair work by taking care of national standards
(Employment law in Australia, 2021). This law applicable to all the size of business
organisation.
 State And Federal Anti-Discrimination Laws: As per the law no employee must be
discriminated on any ground. Each and every person working in organisation must be
given equal opportunity to work.
 Disability Discrimination Act, 1992: This law is specially formulated by government to
safeguard the disables. It is seen that there is discrimination faced by people because of
their disability. So, it is formulated to abolish discrimination (Bowles and et.al., 2020).
 Work Health And Safety Act, 2011: This law takes care about the health and safety of
employees in the organisation. All the people that are associated with the organisation are
protected with this Act.
The policies and procedures that must be followed by an organisation are as follows:
 There must be proper code of conduct that focuses on employees and all rights related to
them.
 There must be proper communication in the organisation (Wong, 2021). Each and every
employee must be given right to speak and give their points while decision making.
 The company must have their recruitment policy. Training and development is important
part of an organisation so there must be provisions made for effective training that will
help in development of employees.
 A policy related to use of mobile phones is also important and should be included in
every organisation.
 A policy related to use non-use of drugs and alcohol in organisation should also be part of
the policies.
 There must be anti-discrimination policy as well as harassment policy.

 The health and safety of employees is important so a policy in this regard is also
important.
 Grievance solving policy and the person to whom the employees must contact must be
clear.
Students need to identify two (2) existing or possible ethical issues relevant to their role
Ethics are moral principles and must be followed by all the individuals. It is seen that
ethics are very important part of a person's life (Wright, Groutsis and Van Den Broek, 2017).
But, while working in an organisation there are certain issue a person has to face ethical issues.
The two ethical issues are discussed below:
1. Not getting proper health and safety in the organisation. Lack of safe drinking water in
the organisation.
2. Getting work related calls after the working hours get over.
Describe how you have responded or would respond to each issue if it arises
1. By asking the superiors to take care about the Health and safety law and provide safe
drinking water to the employees.
2. It is important to have balance between personal and professional life. It is ethically
wrong to call employee and make them work after the working hours. So, it is important
top have policy of not disturbing employees after their duty is over.
Part B
1. What is the name of your relevant work health and safety legislation in your state or territory?
Work Health And Safety Act, 2011 is a law related to work health and safety legislations .
The laws is helpful and takes care of all the employees and their health while they are working in
the organisation.
2. Review your organisation’s policies regarding PPE (personal protection equipment). Describe
one situation you would need to use PPE for and how you would use it.
It is important to include personal protection equipment in the policy of an organisation.
As it helps to use such equipments that protect the user against the health or safety risks at work.
While working with machineries that are risky to use there is need to use equipments that help in
protection against risk (Pather and et.al., 2020). Such equipments that can be used are safety
helmets, high-visibility clothing, eye protection, gloves, safety footwear as well as safety

harnesses. It is necessary to use these equipments as well as providing training is equally
important for safety of employees.
3. Describe one possible emergency situation and what you are required to do if it occurs.
It is seen that are certain situations of emergency that may arise any time in the
organisation. It is seen that there are some policies made by organisation that help to safeguard
them against those emergency situation. Some of the situations are discussed below:
 major power failures
 medical emergencies
 severe weather
 fires or explosions
 earthquakes
 hazardous material spills
There are some steps that are used by the workplace in order to do emergency planning and that
are discussed below:
 Establish a planning team that will help in working at the time of emergency.
 Assess the risk associated with the emergency situation in advance.
 Develop a emergency plan that would help the organisation to response.
 Implement the plan by providing the employees training (Clark-Kazak, 2017).
 Test the plan, as it will help the organisation to know about the plan and the outcomes.
Testing of the plan is necessary step that is taken by the organisation.
 Improve the plan by working over it on continuous basis. As in the previous step testing
is being done.
The actions that are stated in the plan must be used by the organisation such as:
 Rising the alarm.
 Use the equipments that are present such as fire extinguishers
 Crowd management
 Help others as well
 Do not panic

REFERNCES:
Books and Journals:
Bowles and et.al., 2020. Ethical practice in social work: An applied approach. Routledge.
Clark-Kazak, C., 2017. Ethical considerations: Research with people in situations of forced
migration. Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees/Refuge: revue canadienne sur les
réfugiés, 33(2), pp.11-17.
Pather and et.al., 2020. Forced disruption of anatomy education in Australia and New Zealand:
An acute response to the Covid‐19 pandemic. Anatomical sciences education, 13(3),
pp.284-300.
Wong, A., 2021, January. Ethics and regulation of artificial intelligence. In IFIP International
Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Management (pp. 1-18). Springer,
Cham.
Wright, C.F., Groutsis, D. and Van Den Broek, D., 2017. Employer-sponsored temporary labour
migration schemes in Australia, Canada and Sweden: enhancing efficiency,
compromising fairness?. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43(11), pp.1854-
1872.
Online
Employment law in Australia, 2021. [Online] Available through:
<https://employsure.com.au/guides/employment-contracts-and-legislation/employment-law-in-
australia/>