Elements and Performance Criteria
- Develop work health and safety policies and procedures
- Develop a work health and safety business plan and program for the enterprise in consultation with designated personnel and management
- Clearly define and allocate work health and safety responsibilities and duties and include them in job descriptions and duty statements for all relevant positions
- Identify, seek and provide financial and human resources for implementing work health and safety policies and procedures as required
- Provide and explain information on the work health and safety system and procedures, for the area of responsibility, in a form which is readily understood by employees
- Establish and maintain processes to ensure the participation of all employees in the application of work health and safety
- Establish and maintain consultation processes with employees and their representatives
- Deal with issues raised though participation and consultation and resolve them promptly and effectively
- Provide information about the outcomes of participation and consultation in a manner readily accessible to employees
- Establish and maintain procedures for identifying hazards
- Identify and confirm existing and potential hazards within the area of responsibility in accordance with trends identified using the work health and safety records system
- Develop and integrate a procedure for the ongoing identification of hazards within systems of work and procedures
- Appropriately monitor activities to ensure that the procedure is effectively adopted throughout areas of managerial responsibility
- Address hazard identification at the planning, design and evaluation stages of any change in the workplace to ensure that new hazards are not created
- Establish and maintain procedures for assessing risks
- Assess risks associated with identified hazards using information derived from workplace records and industry-wide information
- Develop a procedure for ongoing assessment of risks and integrate it within systems of work and procedures
- Monitor activities to ensure the effective adoption of risk assessment procedures throughout the area of managerial responsibility
- Address risk assessment at the planning, design and evaluation stages of any change in the workplace to ensure that the risk from hazards is not increased
- Investigate and record accident and dangerous occurrences in accordance with work health and safety procedures
- Implement interim risk control measures until a better or permanent control measure is developed
- Develop and implement measures to control assessed risks in accordance with the hierarchy of control and trends identified from the work health and safety records system
- Implement interim solutions, when measures which control a risk at its source are not immediately practicable, until a permanent control measure is developed
- Develop a process of ongoing hazard identification and risk assessment, and a review of effectiveness of control programs, and integrate them into enterprise management arrangements
- Monitor activities to ensure effective adoption of the risk control procedure throughout the area of managerial responsibility
- Address risk control at the planning, design and evaluation stages of any change in the workplace to ensure the inclusion of adequate risk control measures
- Design systems to reduce risk and design administrative arrangements to ensure the implementation of safe work health and safety practices where unable to eliminate hazard
- Implement effective work health and safety risk management measures during any modification to buildings and structures or machinery and work activities
- Identify inadequacies in existing risk control measures and seek or provide resources enabling the implementation of new measures
- Plan and manage enterprise procedures for dealing with hazardous events
- Identify, with accuracy, potential emergencies posing risks to the health and safety of workers and the public
- Develop plans and procedures, which control the risks associated with hazardous events, in consultation with appropriate emergency services
- Provide appropriate information and training to employees to enable the implementation of correct emergency procedures
- Train adequate numbers of workers in First Aid to ensure that first aid is applied to preserve life and minimise injury
- Establish and maintain a work health and safety induction and training program
- Establish and maintain a system for work health and safety records
- Evaluate the enterprise work health and safety system and related policies, procedures and programs
- Assess the effectiveness of the work health and safety system and related policies, procedures and programs according to enterprise aims with respect to work health and safety
- Develop and implement improvements to the work health and safety system to ensure more effective achievement of enterprise aims
- Assess compliance with work health and safety legislation and Codes of Practice to ensure, as a minimum, the maintenance of legal work health and safety standards