Elements and Performance Criteria
- Access information and data used to identify hazards, and to assess and control risks
- Access and review current WHS laws relevant to organisation’s hazard identification and risk control processes
- Access workplace sources of information and data to inform hazard identification, risk assessment and risk controls
- Access external sources of information and data to inform hazard identification, risk assessment and risk controls
- Analyse information and data and determine nature and scope of workplace hazards, risk assessment and risk controls
- Confirm information and data with required stakeholders, seeking input from technical and other advisors as required
- Contribute to identifying risk management requirements and compliance
- Contribute to identifying and complying with requirements of organisational policies, procedures, processes and systems for hazard identification, risk assessment and risk controls
- Contribute to identifying and complying with requirements of WHS laws and guidelines for hazard identification, risk assessment and risk controls
- Identify duty holders, and their roles and responsibilities according to risk management requirements
- Identify tools used by organisational in current hazard identification and risk control processes
- Contribute to workplace hazard identification
- Contribute to selecting hazard identification tools and techniques according to WHS laws, and risk management requirements
- Use hazard identification tools and techniques to assist with identifying hazards according to risk management requirements
- Contribute to documenting hazard identification processes and results according to risk management requirements
- Apply knowledge of hazards to advise individuals and/or parties about workplace hazards and the harms they may cause
- Contribute to WHS risk assessment
- Identify individuals and/or parties at risk of exposure to hazards and determine the nature, severity and likelihood of potential harm
- Contribute to applying tools, techniques and processes to identified hazards to assess risk, according to risk management requirements
- Contribute to documenting risk assessment results according to risk management requirements
- Contribute to communicating risk assessment outcomes with workers, contract workers, managers and technical specialists according to risk management requirements
- Contribute to developing and implementing risk controls
- Contribute to selecting risk controls for identified hazards based on the risk assessment
- Document agreed risk controls according to risk management requirements
- Contribute to developing risk controls according to the hierarchy of control measures and WHS laws
- Contribute to implementing risk controls and seek supervisory advice as required by the circumstances
- Support communication of information on risk controls and actions to required individuals and/or parties
- Contribute to evaluating effectiveness of risk controls
- Identify requirements for ensuring ongoing effectiveness of risk controls
- Contribute to identifying measures that enable evaluation of effectiveness of risk controls
- Document plan for monitoring effectiveness of risk controls according to organisational policies and procedures
- Present and effectively communicate plan to required stakeholders according to risk management requirements