Elements and Performance Criteria
- Provide information about work health and safety
- Explain, with accuracy and clarity, relevant provisions of work health and safety legislation and Codes of Practice to the work group
- Provide information on enterprise work health and safety policies, procedures and programs in a readily accessible manner, and accurately and clearly explain the information to the work group
- Regularly provide, and accurately and clearly explain, information about identified hazards, the outcomes of risk assessment and control procedures
- Facilitate the participation of workers in work health and safety observance and decision-making
- Implement and monitor enterprise procedures for consultation on work health and safety issues to ensure that all members of the work group have the opportunity to contribute
- Describe, with clarity, procedures used by workers to report work health and safety hazards, assess risks, and take action to control risks, to the work group
- Deal with and resolve issues raised through consultation or refer them to the appropriate personnel
- Communicate, with promptness, the outcomes of consultation over work health and safety issues to the work group
- Implement procedures for identifying hazards and assessing and controlling risks
- Identify existing and potential hazards and report them to ensure the implementation of adequate risk assessment and effective control measures
- Check that the work group implements procedures to control work health and safety risks and undertakes regular monitoring to ensure ongoing adherence and effectiveness of risk control
- Identify inadequacies in existing risk control measures in accordance with the hierarchy of control and report inadequacies to designated personnel
- Identify and report inadequacies in allocation of resources to management to ensure safe work practice
- Monitor and regularly report existing risk control measures in accordance with workplace procedures
- Implement workplace procedures for dealing with emergencies and hazardous events
- Implement workplace procedures for dealing with work health and safety emergencies, where necessary, to ensure prompt and effective control action
- Report work health and safety emergencies in accordance with established enterprise procedures
- Implement control measures based on the hierarchy of control to prevent recurrence and minimise the risk of emergencies and hazardous events, or alternatively, refer measures to designated personnel for implementation
- Implement and monitor enterprise procedures for providing work health and safety training
- Identify work health and safety induction and training needs accurately, specifying the gaps between the required work health and safety competencies and those held by the work group
- Make arrangements for meeting identified work health and safety training needs in both on and off-the-job training programs in consultation with relevant parties
- Implement and monitor enterprise procedures for maintaining work health and safety records