Comprehensive Report: Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) at Morrisons

This report provides a comprehensive overview of workplace health and safety (WHS) policies, focusing on their implementation and importance within an organization, specifically using Morrisons as a case study. It explores the commitment of the company to WHS legislation, the roles and responsibilities of duty holders, and the financial and human resources needed for effective WHS management. The report delves into workplace issues like working at heights, poor housekeeping, and electrical hazards, as well as strategies management can use to support employees. It includes a procedure for identifying hazards, an explanation of Kotter's change model, and a control measure matrix. The report also addresses ways to identify inadequacies within the WHS system, intervention points, and gap analysis, emphasizing the significance of accident history and system evaluation. Finally, it covers self-assessment and identifies ways the WHSMS might not meet current organizational objectives, concluding with a summary of key findings and recommendations.

Ensure a Safe
Workplace

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
ACTIVITY 1....................................................................................................................................1
1A Organization commitment to Work health safety policies....................................................1
1B Purpose of duty holder at workplace and key holders of WHS............................................1
1C Financial and human required in order to implement the WHSMS within the organisation.
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ACTIVITY 2....................................................................................................................................3
2A Workplace issues at workplace ............................................................................................3
2B Ways through management can provide information and support to employees in the
workplace....................................................................................................................................4
ACTIVITY 3....................................................................................................................................5
3A Produce a procedure for identifying hazards in the workplace e.g. completing a form. ......5
3B Explaining the Kotter's change model...................................................................................5
3C Control measure matrix. .......................................................................................................6
3D Explains the two ways in which you can identify the other inadequacies ...........................7
3E Explains the intervention point. ............................................................................................7
ACTIVITY 4....................................................................................................................................7
4A Explaining the gap analysis of team members......................................................................7
4B Identify the history of occupational injury and disease.........................................................8
4C Measure or evaluate the WHS system. .................................................................................8
4D Identify ways in which the WHSMS does not meet current organizational objectives. ......9
4E Self assessment ...................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTION
Creating a safe work environment is one of the important tasks for a manager or for the
organizational policy. Safe workplace is the most important and essential term to address
potential dangers before they become an issue. Scope of workplace safety depends upon the size
of business. Present study will be representing the role of workplace safety and their policies
originated by WHS for employee’s protection. For that, Morrisons will be taken into
consideration. Present study will explain the commitment of company towards WHS legislation
and duties of holders towards workplace safety. Further, many concepts associated with
workplace safety will be discussed in the report.
MAIN BODY
ACTIVITY 1
1A. Organisation commitment to work health safety policies
Work health safety is based on national model legislation which is compulsorily needs to
be adopted by Morrisons to keep the employees satisfied and happy (Barua, Wiersma and
Ansary, 2018). Aim of the WHS policy is to protect the health and safety at work by imposing
obligations on all employees. This makes the process challenging and leading manageable tasks.
Main goal of organization is to commit all roles and responsibilities towards employee safety.
The main role of employer is to make new employees comfortable and keep them
protected from dangerous things. Employer needs to maintained all employer records in order to
measure the best possible action plan for risk analysis. This makes the long term goals and
objectives in terms of making goal oriented process (Bibby, 2017). It also helps to make leading
and challenging decision making approach. To make challenging performing goals. Company
also needs to organize safety induction policies for new joiners to make them aware from future
uncertainties. Besides, Morrisons also commit work health safety by adopting the training
assessment for new employees as well as to make them all satisfied and happy.
1B. Purpose of duty holder at workplace and key holders of WHS
Position Role
Senior manager Senior manager is responsible to implement
health and safety strategies in management
functions for employee safety precautions. It is
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the leading activity goal that helps company to
take the best effective decision making
approach (Egerton-Warburton and et.al., 2016).
Senior manager always take care for
employee’s safety in terms of making good
company environment and target market
objective.
Safety Officer Safety officer needs to monitor the workplace
safety to ensure work health condition policies.
Safety officer is the another major role player.
This holds the major objective performing
goals.
Safety Committee Health and safety committee is the group of
members who make new suggestions and
policies in order to reduce uncertainty or
accidents at workplace. This makes the long
term process challenging and implementing in
a proper manner. They ensure underdeveloped
safe work practices, developing written safety
programs, accident investigation or workplace
self-inspection (Engelbrecht and et.al., 2015).
All these activities have performed or
originated by workplace safety committee. It
analyzes the long term process or better
advancing level of task and performing goals.
Management Management of Morrisons makes sure about
the all safety requirements required at
workplace in order to make certain things
approachable (Kunyk and et.al., 2016).
Management staff makes sure about the safety
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of improper behavior and goals. Apart from
that, management is the most powerful team
that helps company to build long term relation
with the clients as well as their employees.
Workplace personnel Workplace personnel is the another key holder
who helps to manage the effective leading
workplace health and safety needs (Lay and
et.al., 2016).
1C. Financial and human resources required to implement WHSMS within organisation
Moreover, it takes the long term process and managing task performance goals. Apart
from that, it also makes long term process and makes the big generation goals. It also makes the
long term process and leading goals. In order to implement the health and safety precautions,
company needs to invest capital on the requirement of things and managing successful business.
On the other hand, company needs human resources especially for keeping the safety needs
proper and managed (Phillips and et.al., 2015). There are some profiles required to keep the
human resources updated such as senior security manager, safety committee, etc.
ACTIVITY 2
2A. Workplace issues at workplace
Workplace issues are the major issues that company facing during their day to day
activity. It is the responsibility of manager or employer to bring new safety precautions for better
healthy environment for employees (Lay and et.al., 2016). It is the responsibility of senior
manager to make sure about the process goals and try to reduce the work pressure and goals.
Working Height
Working at height is the most common issue at workplace due to which many employees
get brutally hurt. This would happen that employees are not interested to work at those places.
Apart from that, it also makes negative impact on the behavior of new employees at workplace.
Senior manager needs to adopt any new changes in the working and arrange some new
preoccupation for them as well (Phillips and et.al., 2015).
Poor housekeeping
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Poor housekeeping is another big issue for companies in context of work health safety. It
also makes negative impact on the work performance of employees. Poor housekeeping can
prove to be risky in terms of many situations. Senior manager should take care of proper working
in the organization for their own safety (Rayan and et.al., 2016).
Electrical Extension Cords
Electrical Extension Cord is another major issue that affects the new employees and
workers. This might be very risky for human health (Sahay, Hutchinson and East, 2015). In order
to keep employees safe and secure from this happening, senior security manager will require
adopting proper precautions and safety needs for employees.
2B. Ways through which management can provide information and support to employees at the
workplace
Take time to watch and listen: In order to ensure employee safety and keep all
employees safe and relax (Schneid, 2017). This also helps to control the best possible action
plan. Moreover, this makes the best possible action plan to recover long term challenging goals.
However, it also helps to take care of the best possible action goals towards action plan.
Fix what you can: This is another way to give support to their employees in the best
possible manner. It gives the long term goal process to take long term profitability. It is the
foremost responsibility of manager or an employer to listen their employee’s needs and wants.
Apart from that, it takes some more needful time and growth to understand the best possible
action plan (Sahay, Hutchinson and East, 2015).
Be positive and look for opportunity: Employer needs to be stay positive towards the
all company activities. Morrisons requires taking care of its employees in the best possible
manner. Besides, it also needs to be more prominent towards employees.
Train and prepare: To make employees more confident and supportive, employer
requires taking long term task to ensure the proper workplace safety. Organization also needs to
give training to employees to meet the current market challenges (Sahay, Hutchinson and East,
2015).
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ACTIVITY 3
3A. Procedure for identifying hazards at the workplace e.g. completing a form
One of the causes of work hazard is illness and injuries to recognize the best possible
action plan. Apart from that, it helps to make the best possible action plan to take over from the
risky task oriented goals (Phillips and et.al., 2015). It is very much essential for company to
maintain proper action plan in order to meet effective leading behavior. Apart from that,
company needs to make plan for keeping the surroundings safe and secure.
Procedure to identify the hazards in the workplace
Action item 1 - collect existing information: This is the first task to identify the hazards
at workplace. Information of workers is very much necessary to measure the positive and
negative concerns of required information (Rayan and et.al., 2016). In the first process, employer
needs to review information with workers to determine what type of hazards may be present and
which workers may be exposed potentially.
Action item 2 Inspect the workplace for safety hazards : In second step of inspection
helps to introduced over time as workstations and process change, equipment or tools become
worn and leading changes more beneficial (Phillips and et.al., 2015). For that, employer requires
conducting regular inspections of all operations, equipment, work areas and facilities. Workers
participation which leads to be more prominent and leading challenging goals. Apart from that,
be sure about document for inspection team and talk to them about hazards.
Action 3 : Identify health hazards : In this action plan employer requires to making
sure about the working hazards such as physical hazards, chemical hazards, identify biological
hazards, identify ergonomic risk factors or reviews medical records.
3B Explaining the Kotter's change model.
1. Create a sense of urgency.
This is the first step of change model under which employees needs to be aware about the
need and urgency of change (Lay and et.al., 2016). This requires convincing and honesty to
make employees satisfied and happy.
2. Create a guiding coalition
Create a guideline for employees to sustain the good relation between employer and
employee. This steps helps to encourage employees and motivate them towards new changes.
3. Create a vision for change
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Set vision will help everyone to understand what the organisation is trying to achieve in
more effectual manner.
4. Communication the vision
The most Important channel and distributional step towards the change model apart from
that, this step supports and acceptance among employees. Change model is to create support and
acceptance among the employees (Lay and et.al., 2016).
5. Remove Obstacles
Before implement the changes it is very necessary for an employer to be manage all
resources in more effective manner.
6. Create short term wins
By creating short term goals and objective will be more helpful for the company to adjust
the better services goals.
7. Consolidate improvement
Changes are more required for the company development. Change is a slow going
process and it must be driven into the overall corporate culture (Kunyk and et.al., 2016).
8. Anchor the changes
Values and standards and change in the corporate world. This makes the more prominent
leader goals.
Hazard Likelihood Consequence Analysis Matrix
Physical Hazards Noise, slips and falls Injury Analysis of this hazard
is very risk full
Biological hazards Bacteria and viruses Legionnaire disease. On the basis of this
analysis people must
take precaution to
keep itself safe and
secure (Lay and et.al.,
2016).
3C Control measure matrix.
Level of control Control Measure
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Remote Remote area where manager can protect the
short of risk
Unlikely Some Likelihood situation where people are
greatly affected by laws and system.
Likely Significant likelihood in which highly goals
are majorly targeted. Overall, it makes the
process or leading goals.
Very likely This makes more growth full and challenging
performing goals (Barua, Wiersma and Ansary,
2018).
3D Explains the two ways in which you can identify the other inadequacies
There are so many situations where employees or an individual feel inadequacies in their
life. Such as fear of uncertainty, fear of failure, fear of rejection.
Fear of failure: life is not certain, for that people needs to tend change and adopt level of
development to reduce failures situation.
Fear of rejection : it is the another inadequacies which brings lack of motivational
thoughts between the person level (Egerton-Warburton and et.al., 2016). Apart from that, it
makes the process objective goals.
3E Explains the intervention point.
Intervention point is the specific places in a system where a targeted action can effectuate
interrupt the functioning of a system. Generally it contains some points of interventions such as
point of destruction, points of consumption, points of decisions and points of assumptions. As
per the context of WHS expert company should adopt the point of consumption as per to attract
the number of customers for higher growth.
ACTIVITY 4
4A Explaining the gap analysis of team members.
This explains the better target performing goals. That makes the goal effective process
that affect the business target market (Phillips and et.al., 2015). Apart from that, it also helps to
discover the long range of production goals in order to meet the best possible action plan.
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Current State
Gap analysis is the process where employer deals the best performing task to be implementing in
more proper manner. Company also required to make the proper and challenging performing
targets, Which is also very much necessary to make the proper challenging performing task level.
Future state
Future state outlined the target goals that company needs to performed accordingly.
Gap Description
This Column helps to identify the whether a gap exists between a company current and
future state or not. In this process company needs to performed to make new strategies in order
to select the more prominent features and goals (Sahay, Hutchinson and East, 2015).
4B Identify the history of occupational injury and disease.
Internal problem Internal problem is the system that makes the
leading challenging goals. Company can
easily analyze the internal structure.
Low skill level Low managerial skill growth is the another
analysis tool and presenting performing goal
channel.
Results of risk assessment Risk assessment is the another tool to analyze
the best performing goals that affect the
business goals (Pagell and et.al., 2015).
Reports that chemicals keep mixing That affect the business objective goals. Which
impact the overall business structure.
Electrical lead keep obtaining holes in it Electrical lead keep obtaining holes in it. This
makes the original goals. That affect the
business objective goals.
4C Measure or evaluate the WHS system.
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Method What would you
monitor?
How would you
measure it?
Self-assessment In this tool company
evaluate the individual
performance.
Final performance.
Physical inspection It includes individual
physical health (Phillips
and et.al., 2015).
Physical health fitness.
Checking and
monitoring success of
actions
Analyse the actual
performance out of
desired goals
(Engelbrecht and et.al.,
2015).
Regular follow up
Audit and
reassessment of risk
to achieving
objectives
Risk process goals By follow up
Key dates, time
frames and deadlines
for communicating
Project completion and
task.
By analysis actual and
desired results goals.
4D Identify ways in which the WHSMS does not meet current organisational objectives.
With the help of 5 ways of key performance indicators organization can easily measure
its WHS management system (Phillips and et.al., 2015).
1. Document notification response rate
It is the first tool that affect the business goal objective performance. This process or tool
helps to identify the storing, maintaining the quality records.
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2. Audit
It is the another tool that helps to review all process to make sure the identified issue.
3. Training
Ensuring health and safety, product quality helps to make the proper ensuring level. That
affect the business objective goals.
4. Risk
Regulators are increasingly requiring leadership to demonstrate that they are management
risk.
5. Issue
This is the another tool of reviewing the process, raising and closing issues is important
to control factors.
4E Self assessment
Self assessment is the important process to make sure the necessary target goals. WHS
officer conduct the survey and process goals to make sure the proper working condition of the
company work health safety or not (Bibby, 2017).
CONCLUSION
From the basis of above section, it has been seen that. Ensure work safety is the most
challenging task for an organization. Present study has been based on ensure work safety in the
context of Morrison. Study has explained all important aspects of ensure work safety.
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