Elements and Performance Criteria
- Assist with incorporating WHS policies and procedures into work team processes
- Use WHS legislation as the basis for meeting the health and safety requirements of a small work team
- Assist in providing and clearly explaining information to the work team about the organisation’s WHS policies, procedures, programs and legislative requirements, including the legal duties, powers, rights, obligations and responsibilities of individuals and parties inside and outside the workplace
- Assist in regularly providing and clearly explaining information to the work team about identifying hazards and the outcomes of risk assessment
- Support participative arrangements for managing WHS
- Implement and monitor organisational consultative procedures to facilitate participation of the work team in managing work area hazards
- Promptly deal with issues raised through consultation according to organisational procedures for issue resolution
- Encourage and assist work team members to contribute to managing WHS
- Engage with individuals and work teams to identify and implement improvements in managing WHS feedback
- Support the organisation’s procedures for providing WHS training
- Participate in identifying hazards, and assessing and controlling risks for the work area
- Provide advice on hazards in the work area according to organisational policies and procedures, and WHS legal requirements
- Support the implementation of procedures to control risks using the hierarchy of control and according to organisational procedures and WHS legal requirements
- Identify and report inadequacies in existing risk control measures according to organisational procedures, the hierarchy of control and WHS legal requirements
- Accurately complete and maintain WHS incident records in the work area according to organisational procedures and WHS legislative requirements