Health and Safety Report: Employee Consultation and Action Plan

This report delves into workplace health and safety (WHS), emphasizing employee consultation, stakeholder involvement, and the development of a comprehensive action plan. It outlines the importance of consulting with employees and planning health and safety checks ethically, including maintaining documentation of decisions and actions. The report stresses the need to involve all stakeholders, providing them with timely information and opportunities to participate in risk assessments. It highlights the significance of training and development programs to motivate employees towards health and social care. Furthermore, it presents a WHS action plan, addressing issues such as equipment maintenance and emergency contact procedures, detailing risk levels, responsible parties, resources, and timelines for completion. The report references key texts on health and safety management, providing a foundation for its recommendations and analysis.

Manage work health and
safety

Table of Contents
1. Plan for consultation with employees so as to ensure all stakeholders input is included.......1
2. How to ensure that all the stakeholders are involved including the methods for encouraging
cooperation and communication and any training requirement..................................................1
3. WHS Action plan....................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

1. Plan for consultation with employees so as to ensure all stakeholders input is included.
While conducting workplace risk assessment for WHS it is considered that management
should plan health and safety checks ethically (Holt and Allen, 2015). They should maintain the
documents such as checklist which consist the daily requirements of the patients rooms to be
checked. While consulting with employees mangers should first introduce them with the
changing plan that has to introduced. Also the managers should decide on welfare facilities as
well as changes that are to be made (Nelson and Staggers, 2016). The records and the documents
must contains who were involved, what is the safety matter, what decisions has been made, when
the actions that are suggested in the meeting would be completed.
2. How to ensure that all the stakeholders are involved including the methods for encouraging
cooperation and communication and any training requirement.
The managers should ensure that documents for invitation the stakeholders reaches to
them on time. They should provide them with the Emails and the messages through which the
reminders would be sent. The stakeholders should participate to find the hazards that are
associated in the organisation. They should assess the risks that are involved in it (Epstein,
2018). Managers should provide training and development programmes to their employees gets
trained and motivated towards health and social care.
3. WHS Action plan
1

WHS Action plan
WHS Issue Action required Priority of risk
level
(low, med, high)
Responsible
Person/s
Resources
Required
Time
frame
Completion Date
Electronic equipment are being
depreciated and needs to be
repaired on regular basis
Replace electronic
equipments
within every 2-
3 years of time.
Medium John usman Medical
equipments
and
machinery
As per
require
ment of
change
Till completion of
this accounting
year.
No emergency service number
provided to the security officer.
Ensure after hours
emergency contacts
provided to Security
Services are up to
date
High Maggie joy Telephone
number,
Should
be done
on time
Should be
complete
immediately within
a week .

REFERENCES
Books and Journal
Epstein, M.J., 2018. Making sustainability work: Best practices in managing and measuring corporate social, environmental and economic impacts.
Routledge.
Holt, A.S.J. and Allen, J., 2015. Principles of health and safety at work. Routledge.
Nelson, R. and Staggers, N., 2016. Health Informatics-E-Book: An Interprofessional Approach. Elsevier Health Sciences.