Under the whs act all employee in the workplace are

Under the WHS Act, all employee in the workplace are duty
holders with had some differences of responsibility for their own
safety and others safety.
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Assessment Task 2 BSBWHS501 Ensure a safe workplace
Under sections 46 – 49 of WHS Act, duty holders and PCBUs can
have a responsibility to consult, cooperative and coordinate to
WHS activities. Every company must consult to workers and
HSRs.
Definition Duties and
Responsibilities
HSRs Employee
representative who
was elected for
three years in
designated work.
Inspect the
workplace to avoid
accident. Initiating
emergency stop in
case of accident.
HSCs Ensure workers to
views on WHS
matters.
To provide a forum
for the
management and
workers to identify
and resolve health
and safety problems
Note: Policies/procedures may be sourced and adapted, rather than
written from scratch.
4. Develop recordkeeping policy and procedure/s:
a. Include templates and procedures for collecting information on
hazards, incidents and actions taken, such as incident reports
and risk registers.
Australian Hardware need a recordkeeping policy to ensuring all the
operational and strategic needs. And for documentation for all the
employees record.
Recordkeeping policy should a training personnel and store records.
WHS Act requires the following documentation of risk report and
incident report form. Risk report is the details that happen in the
incident at the workplace and incident report form is the document
which all the information will be recorded. This are needed to
Australian Hardware recordkeeping procedures for monitoring and
documenting incidents.
This is a sample format of a incident report form:
Via access to internet:
nt_report_form.pdf?v=1532392624
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Assessment Task 2 BSBWHS501 Ensure a safe workplace
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Assessment Task 2 BSBWHS501 Ensure a safe workplace
Note: Policies, procedures, templates may be sourced and adapted,
rather than written from scratch.
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Assessment Task 2 BSBWHS501 Ensure a safe workplace
Part B
1. Arrange with your assessor to meet with the Wollongong work group
health and safety representative (HSR). Prepare to collect information
on worker concerns and effectiveness of existing controls for risk.
(Consultant to Wollongong store)
2. In a role-play, meet with the Wollongong HSR.
3. Identify and seek expert advice for some aspect of planning or
implementation of WHS risk management or WHS legislation. For
example:
a. determine safe storage of petrol, turpentine, poisons, paints,
etc.