BSBWHS401A Implement and monitor WHS policies,procedures and programs to meet legislative requirements
Assessment Task 2: Work Health and Safety Project
Part A: Develop handouts
Handout 1: Legislation
Explain the purpose of Work Health and Safety legislation, including the function of a WHS Act, WHSregulation and WHS Code of Practice:
Purpose of WHS legislation
The purpose of the WHS Act is to manage everything that make sure it is ‘secure’ for the health and safety for workers and workplace to make it to be less number of risky. To be fair and effective representation consultation including encouraging employer organization to play a constructive role. Including give the workers for training, advice, information that important to them and …show more content…
Your past experience in the workplace may help you to identify some hazards, but remember to also use the skills and knowledge of those around you to help.
The ways to identify hazards and control risks:
Talk with workers (including contractors) and making to who are working in any task clear about how to work safety and to identify all potential hazards and the best ways to eliminate or reduce risk.
Make sure you are aware of any high risk activities, work with new machinery or new work processes before they happen.
Understand the hazards associated with tasks you supervise and have risk controls in place before work starts. This could mean preventing work from being done while a safety issue is being resolved.
Take action to resolve health and safety issues as soon as possible. This includes escalating the issue to more senior management if necessary. Once agreement is reached on how to fix a problem, implement it as soon as possible.
Provide 5 commonexamples of hazards that may occur in an office environment
1. Improper lighting
2. Office temperature and humidity
3. Poor positioning of the screen itself
4. Copy material that is difficult to …show more content…
Staff feedback on the handouts I have presented are:
They find the information provided are helpful/unhelpful for their daily work.
They find the information provided are very comprehensive/limited for their daily work.
They find the information provided are very detailed/general for their daily work.
They find the information provided are relating to themselves/irrelevant to
Assessment Task 2: Work Health and Safety Project
Part A: Develop handouts
Handout 1: Legislation
Explain the purpose of Work Health and Safety legislation, including the function of a WHS Act, WHSregulation and WHS Code of Practice:
Purpose of WHS legislation
The purpose of the WHS Act is to manage everything that make sure it is ‘secure’ for the health and safety for workers and workplace to make it to be less number of risky. To be fair and effective representation consultation including encouraging employer organization to play a constructive role. Including give the workers for training, advice, information that important to them and …show more content…
Your past experience in the workplace may help you to identify some hazards, but remember to also use the skills and knowledge of those around you to help.
The ways to identify hazards and control risks:
Talk with workers (including contractors) and making to who are working in any task clear about how to work safety and to identify all potential hazards and the best ways to eliminate or reduce risk.
Make sure you are aware of any high risk activities, work with new machinery or new work processes before they happen.
Understand the hazards associated with tasks you supervise and have risk controls in place before work starts. This could mean preventing work from being done while a safety issue is being resolved.
Take action to resolve health and safety issues as soon as possible. This includes escalating the issue to more senior management if necessary. Once agreement is reached on how to fix a problem, implement it as soon as possible.
Provide 5 commonexamples of hazards that may occur in an office environment
1. Improper lighting
2. Office temperature and humidity
3. Poor positioning of the screen itself
4. Copy material that is difficult to …show more content…
Staff feedback on the handouts I have presented are:
They find the information provided are helpful/unhelpful for their daily work.
They find the information provided are very comprehensive/limited for their daily work.
They find the information provided are very detailed/general for their daily work.
They find the information provided are relating to themselves/irrelevant to