team about WHS policies and procedures

Provide information to the work team about WHS policies and procedures

Question 1.1

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What are the key aspects of health and safety legislation?

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Question 1.2

1.2.a

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Why is it important to provide information to work teams on the relevant health and safety legislation, the organisation’s health and safety policies, procedures and programs, and any identified hazards and their control?

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1.2.b

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What are the characteristics of a good health and safety program?

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Question 1.3

1.3.a

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Explain the importance of effective consultative mechanisms in managing health and safety risks and describe what they entail.

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1.3.b

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List five ways that PCBUs can provide clear explanations to work teams about identified hazards and the outcomes of risk assessment and control.

Question 2.1

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What are the benefits of consulting with workers about health and safety issues?

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Question 2.2

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Explain the role of the HSR in each of these consultation procedures:

1. Attendance at team meetings.

2. Early response to work suggestions, requests, reports and concerns put forward to management.

3. Requirements as specified in Commonwealth and state/ territory legislation, regulations and codes of practice.

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Question 2.3

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What strategies can PCBUs use to consult with workers on health and safety issues?

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Question 2.4

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Why must health and safety issues raised through consultation be dealt with promptly?

Question 3.1

3.1.a

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What is a training needs analysis and how can it be conducted?

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3.1.b

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What tools can be used to identify the skills a worker needs?

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Question 3.2

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Your team is concerned that they have insufficient knowledge/ understanding of safety procedures and legislative requirements in your workplace. They also feel that the incidence of accidents in your section is higher than it should be. They have asked you to submit, to senior management, a proposal for a formal health and safety training program.

What information would you include in the proposal and how would you encourage senior management to support this initiative? What procedures would you follow in gathering data and information to support your proposal? How likely is it that this or a similar proposal would be accepted in your workplace?

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Question 3.3

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What are the benefits of evaluating training to both workers and the organisation?

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Question 3.4

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Your organisation has identified an increase in injuries to workers who use the new plant. You are responsible for training in the area where the injuries occur. Your rate (for the exercise) is $360 per day. A training needs analysis concludes a training program will reduce the injury rate. Consider:

· the training needs analysis will take two days, including reporting to management

· it will take you five days to develop the training program

· you can get a good training video at a cost of $375 and to hire a TV/ video for each session will cost $120

· handouts will cost $12 per participant

· management wants you to conduct the training at a venue that costs $195 per day

· catering is available, $25 per participant per day

· you will deliver the training and lost production is costed at $320 per day per participant

You will train 20 workers in five groups. Each course runs for one day. Administrative support works out at $28 per participant. Calculate the cost for training.

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What processes or procedures might an organisation use to identify hazards and monitor risk control procedures?

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4.1.b

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What is the difference between a risk and a hazard?

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Question 4.2

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What are the factors that impact upon the severity of an incident?

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Question 4.3

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Explain how the hierarchy of control applies in the work area.

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Question 4.4 / 4.5

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You are safety site supervisor for a commercial construction company. The company employs 12 administration personnel, 18 construction personnel and 60 subcontractors. They have a fairly strong health and safety program, but are concerned about increasing back injury reports.

Workers have been asked to identify and report on any inadequacies in existing risk controls relating to back injury and to the hierarchy of control. To whom should workers report? What are the responsibilities of the HSR or HSC in terms of reporting and monitoring the results of responses?

What is the hierarchy of control, how does it impact on risk controls in a situation like this, and why is important to regularly monitor and report on inadequacies?

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Question 5.1

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List six types of health and safety records that must be kept by every organisation.

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Question 5.2

5.2.a

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A workplace employs 75 workers who work for a total of 150,000 hours in a year. They experience eight lost time injuries for the year, resulting in 65 days off.

Calculate the following:

1. Frequency rate.

2. Incidence rate.

3. Average lost time/ severity rate.

Provide your workings.

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5.2.b

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You must present these statistics at the next senior management meeting. How you will present this information? Include copies of any graphs or tables that might be relevant.

Performance tasks

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Task 1

Demonstrate the following task:

Task 1

Navigate to any relevant Work Health and Safety legislation website on the internet.  An example is –  www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au

Analyse the key steps you can take to maintain health and safety requirements.

In 200 words, demonstrate this by producing an article for your company newsletter.

In the article:

· Highlight the full name of the legislation

· List at least 3 of the key aspects listed

· State what are the objectives of the legislation

· Include information on any industry regulatory partnerships involved.

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ask 2

Demonstrate the following task:

Task 2

Hazard reports are completed and shared within any organisation to reduce the possible cause of harm or injury to people.

Produce a hazard report template.

The template should highlight all the key elements and procedures that an organisation uses to identify hazards and monitor risk control procedures.

To create this template, you can conduct research through the relevant work health and safety legislation websites, regulatory regulations websites or through your own workplace’s policies and procedures.

 

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Task 3

Demonstrate the following task:

Task 3

Create a memo to your team highlighting the importance of the following:

· Why the organisation must follow health and safety legislation

· Why the organisation has health and safety policies, procedures and programs

· Why they need to be on the look out constantly to identify hazards

· Why they need to mitigate the hazards by changing or controlling the environment in which they operate.

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Task 4

Demonstrate the following task:

Task 4

It is important to have effective consultative mechanisms in managing health and safety risks.

Demonstrate how you would do this in practice in the workplace.

You can demonstrate this by using your own workplace as an example or a workplace that you have an interest in working in.

(Approximately 200 words)

For example, you could set up a workplace safety committee in your workplace.

 

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Task 5

Demonstrate the following task:

Task 5

Produce a flyer showing the hierarchy of control methods.

In the wording for your flyer, give people in your company explanations about the following:

· How does the hierarchy of control apply in your work area?

· Give an example so that the team members in your company clearly understand how the hierarchy of control applies in their work area.

· You can use pictures, colours and images from the internet in your flyer. 

If you aren’t working at the moment, you may use any simulated workplace.

Remember to upload your flyer.

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Project A

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You work in a large department store and are the newly appointed health and safety representative for your work group. The organisation is wanting in its compliance with health and safety compliance.

You have just completed an investigation and have discovered the following:

· workers are unsure of the health and safety legislation and codes of practice that relate to them

· workers have not received training in the organisation’s health and safety policies, procedures and programs for two years and people are unsure which are current and which have been superseded

· there is no mechanism to inform workers of hazards (and their assessment) that have been identified in their work area

· historically there has been little encouragement or support for work teams to manage work area hazards

· if workers raised issues they were generally ignored

· there was little communication back to workers if consultation about health and safety issues did occur

· a health and safety training needs analysis has not been conducted for two years

· there are some pressing health and safety information gaps that can be addressed by training

· management are reluctant to approve health and safety training as they fear it will cost too much

· the workplace hazard assessment has not been updated for the last six months

· there are four hazards that were identified in the last hazard assessment that have not been actioned

· there is no procedure in place to use data to identify risks, control those risks, or monitor outcomes of reported inadequacies

· management are unsure of what health and safety records must be kept or how to fill them out

Your task is to create an action plan (3–5 pages) for what you will do to address these problems and turn your workplace into an example of health and safety best practice. Use the template provided as a guide.

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