Elements and Performance Criteria
- Establish a WHS management system in a work area
- Locate, adapt, adopt and communicate WHS policies that define the organisation’s commitment to complying with WHS laws
- Identify duty holders and define WHS responsibilities for all workplace personnel in the work area according to WHS laws, policies, procedures and programs
- Identify and approve financial and human resources required by the WHS management system (WHSMS) according to organisational procedures
- Establish and maintain effective and compliant consultative arrangements for managing WHS in a work area
- Work with required personnel to set up and maintain consultative arrangements according to required WHS laws
- Resolve issues raised through participation and consultation arrangements according to required WHS laws and organisational protocols
- Provide information about consultation and participation outcomes to required personnel according to organisational policies and procedures
- Establish and maintain procedures for effectively identifying hazards, and assessing and controlling risks in work area
- 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 workplace change to ensure that new hazards are not created by proposed changes and existing hazards are controlled
- Develop and maintain procedures for selecting and implementing risk controls according to the hierarchy of control measures and WHS legislative requirements
- Identify inadequacies in existing risk controls according to the hierarchy of control measures and WHS legislative requirements, and promptly provide resources to enable implementation of new measures
- Identify requirements for expert WHS advice, and request this advice as required, according to organisational procedures
- Evaluate and maintain a work area WHS management system (WHSMS)
- Develop and provide a WHS induction and training program for required personnel in a work area as part of organisation’s training program
- Use a system for WHS recordkeeping to allow identification of patterns of occupational injury and disease in the organisation, and to maintain a record of WHS decisions made, including reasons for decisions
- Measure and evaluate the WHSMS according to organisation’s quality systems framework
- Develop and implement improvements to WHSMS to achieve organisational WHS objectives according to organisational procedures
- Ensure compliance with WHS legislative framework to achieve, as a minimum, WHS legal requirements