7). While working in a busy restaurant, if any customer spills drink on the floor, my primary duty will be alerting customers and employees present in the restaurant related to the drink spill. This is because it is a possible source of physical hazard and can affect the individual tremendously. For this purpose, I will indicate the place with some alerting mark, and then will call upon the supporting staff to clean the area. Further, during this process, I will keep observing the place so that I can alert the new customers who are unaware of the spillage from the possible hazardous situation (Ismail, Doostdar and Harun 2012).
8). While working in the CBD of a fashion retail store, If I witness that a customer collapsing, I will first seek help from the supervisor as in the WHS process, it has been mentioned that the supervisors are trained with basic first aid techniques so that while any crucial medical condition they can implement their knowledge to control the situation. Further, they are also aware of the local hospitals and healthcare professionals and through them it will be easier to call upon fast and effective healthcare professionals so that patient assessment and medication can be initiated without any effective delay.
9). While working in a construction site, it is mandatory for all the workers, officials and managers to wear personal protective equipment. This is an important aspect while working in a construction site as there are numerous processes that can lead to hazardous situation such as face or eye injury, head injury from heavy blocks, respiratory infection due to aerosol and dust, hand and skin injury, heat shock and so on (Barro-Torres et al. 2012). Therefore personal protective equipment should be worn by the officials and workers in the construction site. For this purpose, hard hats are worn to protect against head injury, safety goggles and full face shields are used to protect face and eye injury, respirators to protect from fumes, paint spray and dust (Zheng et al. 2012). Further, for heat shock protection, the PPE worn by the workers should be able to withstand the heat and cold shock so that while working in the constructions site, they can be protected against fire and heat. Hearing related protection should also be maintained because more than 30% cases or hearing loss in workers occurs in construction sites only. Therefore, the equipment producing maximum noise should be isolated. Hence, the abovementioned reasons are responsible for wearing PPEs at construction site for worker health and safety (Ismail, Doostdar and Harun 2012).
10). Workplace health and safety committee is a body that permits the organizations to work with the workers and their supervisors in the field of workplace health and safety. It should be noted, that prior to creating a health and safety committee, the organization should ask employees to select a health and safety representative so that their rights can be protected (Salim, Salleh and Zawawi 2016). However, if they refuse to do so, they must form a committee. The primary function of health and safety committee is to facilitate and instigate measures so that employees can ask and demand for health and safety policies within organizations. Hence, while creating safety committee with five or more members of the workplace will be chosen. There workers should have detailed idea of the practice and processes of the workplace as they should be aware of the safety issues of each process to take risk management interventions (Rotich and Kwasira 2015).
There are numerous roles and responsibilities, the WHS committee possess while working in an organization. These are:
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