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The WHS Act aims to
*Protect the health and safety of workers and other people by eliminating or minimising risks arising from work or workplaces
*Ensure fair and effective representation, consultation and cooperation to address and resolve any health and safety issues in the workplace
*Encourage employer organisations and workers Unions to take a constructive role in improving work health and safety practices
*Assisting businesses and workers to achieve a healthier and safer working environment
*Promote information, education and training on work health and safety
*Provide effective compliance and enforcement measures, and
*Deliver continuous improvement and progressively higher standards of work …show more content…
The disposal of these rags in the general dumpster poses a major risk of cross contamination with other rags that have had been used with other chemical/substances, which could lead to a toxic/hazardous situation, the production of toxic gases and the potential of a fire hazard. There is also no mention of any PPE being used during the handling of the chemicals either
* Chemical storage: there are several different types of chemicals stored at the facility, there is a risk if stored together that they can cause either a chemical or physical risk,
*Another hazard I noted was that ABC chemical’s building only had a limited amount of emergency equipment, with the amount of employees working for ABC this definitely causes a hazard, there obviously is not enough equipment available to accommodate more than a handful of workers. The company could end up in legal strife for not supplying the correct amount of Emergency Equipment as set out in the WHS Regulation 2011
*Manual Handling Hazard – the drums are 205 Ltrs, they are then decanted into containers approximately 30 ltrs/Kilo ,there is no mention of appropriate equipment to move these
*Protect the health and safety of workers and other people by eliminating or minimising risks arising from work or workplaces
*Ensure fair and effective representation, consultation and cooperation to address and resolve any health and safety issues in the workplace
*Encourage employer organisations and workers Unions to take a constructive role in improving work health and safety practices
*Assisting businesses and workers to achieve a healthier and safer working environment
*Promote information, education and training on work health and safety
*Provide effective compliance and enforcement measures, and
*Deliver continuous improvement and progressively higher standards of work …show more content…
The disposal of these rags in the general dumpster poses a major risk of cross contamination with other rags that have had been used with other chemical/substances, which could lead to a toxic/hazardous situation, the production of toxic gases and the potential of a fire hazard. There is also no mention of any PPE being used during the handling of the chemicals either
* Chemical storage: there are several different types of chemicals stored at the facility, there is a risk if stored together that they can cause either a chemical or physical risk,
*Another hazard I noted was that ABC chemical’s building only had a limited amount of emergency equipment, with the amount of employees working for ABC this definitely causes a hazard, there obviously is not enough equipment available to accommodate more than a handful of workers. The company could end up in legal strife for not supplying the correct amount of Emergency Equipment as set out in the WHS Regulation 2011
*Manual Handling Hazard – the drums are 205 Ltrs, they are then decanted into containers approximately 30 ltrs/Kilo ,there is no mention of appropriate equipment to move these