Elements and Performance Criteria
- Establish and maintain an OHS system
- Locate and communicate OHS policies which clearly express the organisation's commitment to implement relevant OHS legislation in the enterprise
- Define OHS responsibilities for all workplace personnel in accordance with OHS policies, procedures and programs
- Identify and approve financial and human resources for the effective operation of the OHS system
- Establish and maintain participative arrangements for the management of OHS
- Establish and maintain participative arrangements with employees and their representatives in accordance with relevant OHS legislation
- Appropriately resolve issues raised through participative arrangements and consultation
- Promptly provide information about the outcomes of participation and consultation in a manner accessible to employees
- Establish and maintain procedures for identifying hazards, and assessing and controlling risks
- Develop procedures for ongoing hazard identification, and assessment and control of associated risks
- Include hazard identification at the planning, design and evaluation stages of any change in the workplace to ensure that new hazards are not created by the proposed changes
- Develop and maintain procedures for selection and implementation of risk control measures in accordance with the hierarchy of control
- Identify inadequacies in existing risk control measures in accordance with the hierarchy of control and promptly provide resources to enable implementation of new measures
- Identify intervention points for expert OHS advice
- Establish and maintain a quality OHS management system
- Develop and provide an OHS induction and training program for all employees as part of the organisation's training program
- Utilise system for OHS record keeping to allow identification of patterns of occupational injury and disease in the organisation
- Measure and evaluate the OHS system in line with the organisation's quality systems framework
- Develop and implement improvements to the OHS system to achieve organisational OHS objectives
- Ensure compliance with the OHS legislative framework so that legal OHS standards are maintained as a minimum