Elements and Performance Criteria
- Manage work health and safety information and records
- Identify and access relevant work health and safety legislation, standards, codes of practice/compliance codes, guidance material and other sources of work health and safety information and evaluate their relevance to the specific work context
- Collect and collate information on work health and safety requirements, trends and risk controls and provide to others
- Review records and record keeping processes to ensure that legal requirements for work health and safety record keeping are identified and addressed
- Implement and monitor processes for ensuring that work health and safety records are accurately completed, collected and stored in accordance with legal requirements and workplace procedures
- Manage work health and safety participative processes
- Monitor participative processes to ensure compliance with legislative requirements and organisation procedures
- Evaluate information provided to employees to ensure it is in a readily accessible and understandable format
- Implement and monitor processes for ensuring that workgroup members have an opportunity, either directly or through their representative, to contribute to decisions that may affect their health and safety
- Evaluate processes for addressing work health and safety issues to ensure issues raised through consultation are resolved promptly and in line with organisation procedures and legislative requirements
- Provide prompt information about the outcomes of consultation to employees in a format and medium that is readily accessible
- Manage work health and safety risk management processes
- Ensure hazard, incident, and injury reporting and investigation processes are in place to meet legislative requirements and to inform future prevention strategies
- Ensure processes are in place so that hazard identification and risk assessments occur according to organisation procedures
- Ensure risk controls and hazard specific procedures are consistent with the hierarchy of control and are monitored to support compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements
- Ensure processes are in place to identify and address any work health and safety implications of either proposed or implemented changes to the workplace, work processes or organisation of work
- Recognise limits of own professional expertise and consult expert advisors as required
- Manage work health and safety training program
- Assess work health and safety training needs of workgroup members, taking into account legislative and regulatory requirements, internal policies and procedures, existing skills of work group members and risk control requirements
- Implement and monitor training programs to ensure identified work health and safety training requirements are addressed
- Implement and monitor processes to ensure that all new employees receive work health and safety induction
- Access and consult relevant work health and safety and training specialists as required in the development and implementation of the training program
- Manage work health and safety continuous improvement process
- Obtain and consider input from individuals and workgroup in identifying and implementing work health and safety improvement
- Determine work health and safety priorities in consultation with appropriate managers and stakeholders
- Develop work health and safety action plans, taking priorities and training needs into account
- Monitor and update achievements against the work health and safety plans accordingly