Essay: Workplace Health And Safety Participation For Effective Risk Control.

1.Establish, implement, maintain and evaluate effective and compliant participation arrangements for managing WHS including identifying duty holders, identifying and approving the required resources and developing and implementing a training program. Provide evidence of:

a.The implementation plan

b.The monitoring methods used to ensure participation

c.List of duty holders and their related tasks and responsibilities

d.List of methods used to identify resources required

e.Methods used to gain approval for additional resources

f.Provide a training program for the workplace

2.Establish, implement, maintain and evaluate procedures for effectively identifying hazards, and assessing and controlling risks using the hierarchy of risk control

a.Provide a developed hazard identification form

b.Provide the implementation plan that you developed

c.Provide evidence of monitoring and evaluation activities

d.Discuss the identified hazards and the associated risk assessment and control measures

Participation Arrangements for Managing WHS

Throughout your training, the organisation is committed to your learning by providing a training and assessment framework that ensures the knowledge gained through training is translated into practical on the job improvements.

You are going to be assessed for:

• Your skills and knowledge using written and observation activities that apply to a workplace;
• Your ability to apply your learning; and
• Your ability to recognise common principles and actively use these for a job.

All of your assessment and training is provided as a positive learning tool. Your assessor will guide your learning and provide feedback on your responses to the assessment materials until you have been deemed competent in this unit.

The process we follow is known as competency-based assessment. This means that evidence of your current skills and knowledge will be measured against national standards of best practice, not against the learning you have undertaken either recently or in the past. Some of the assessment will be concerned with how you apply your skills and knowledge in a workplace, and some in the training room as required by each unit.

The assessment tasks have been designed to enable you to demonstrate the required skills and knowledge and produce the critical evidence to successfully demonstrate competency at the required standard.

Your assessor will ensure that you are ready for assessment and will explain the assessment process.  Your assessment tasks will outline the evidence to be collected and how it will be collected, for example; a written activity, case study, or demonstration and observation.

The assessor will also have determined if you have any special needs to be considered during assessment. Changes can be made to the way assessment is undertaken to account for special needs and this is called making Reasonable Adjustment.

Our assessment process is designed to answer the question “has the desired learning outcome been achieved yet?” If the answer is “Not yet”, then we work with you to see how we can get there.

In the case that one or more of your assessments has been marked ‘NS’ or ‘NYC’, your trainer will provide you with the necessary feedback and guidance, in order for you to resubmit your responses.

You can appeal against a decision made in regards to your assessment.   An appeal should only be made if you have been assessed as ‘Not Yet Competent’ against a specific unit and you feel you have sufficient grounds to believe that you are entitled to be assessed as competent. You must be able to adequately demonstrate that you have the skills and experience to be able to meet the requirements of units you are appealing the assessment of.

Identification and Control of Hazards and Risks

Your trainer will outline the appeals process, which is available to the student. You can request a form to make an appeal and submit it to your trainer, the course coordinator, or the administration officer. The RTO will examine the appeal and you will be advised of the outcome within 10 days working days. Any additional information you wish to provide may be attached to the appeal form.

If you believe you already have the knowledge and skills to be able to demonstrate competence in this unit, speak with your trainer, as you may be able to apply for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).

Assessors need to be aware of their responsibilities and carry them out appropriately.  To do this they need to:

• Ensure that participants are assessed fairly based on the outcome of the language, literacy and numeracy review completed at enrolment.
• Ensure that all documentation is signed by the student, trainer, workplace supervisor and assessor when units and certificates are complete, to ensure that there is no follow-up required from an administration perspective.
• Ensure that their own qualifications are current.
• When required, request the manager or supervisor to determine that the student is ‘satisfactorily’ demonstrating the requirements for each unit. ‘Satisfactorily’ means consistently meeting the standard expected from an experienced operator.
• When required, ensure supervisors and students sign off on third party assessment forms or third party report.
• Follow the recommendations from moderation and validation meetings.

Your assessments should be typed in a 11 or 12 size font for ease of reading. You must include a footer on each page with the student name, unit code and date. Your assessment needs to be submitted as a hardcopy or electronic copy as requested by your trainer. 

The length of your answers will be guided by the description in each assessment, for example the following types of answers are a minimum unless otherwise indicated:

Include a reference list at the end of your work on a separate page. You should reference the sources you have used in your assessments in the Harvard Style. For example:

Website Name – Page or Document name retrieved, insert the date. Webpage link.

For a book: Author surname, author initial Year of publication, Title of book, Publisher, City, State

Further sample information about the Harvard style of referencing is available in your Student handbook or at https://www.harvardgenerator.com/references/website or https://www.refme.com/au/referencing-generator/harvard/. 

Plagiarism is using the words or ideas of others and presenting them as your own. Plagiarism is a type of intellectual theft. It can take many forms, from deliberate cheating to accidentally copying from a source without acknowledgement. In your assessments, you must come up with your own ideas, however, at times you may need to make reference to work that has been conducted by others. Important points to be aware of:

• Know what plagiarism is. Go to this website if you require additional information           https://www.plagiarism.org/;

• Plan your work; and

• Reference your work / acknowledge all of your sources.

What is Plagiarism? (n.d.)

Retrieved November 2017, from https://www.plagiarism.org/plagiarism-101/what-is-plagiarism 

For this assessment, you will need to respond the following tasks. These tasks will need to be completed and submitted in a professional, word processed format. Each numbered task must be a Mid Submission. It is recommended that you discuss ideas with your fellow colleagues to ensure your actions are responsive to the assessment method.

Task 1 of 3

1. List the forms, registers and records that your organisation uses to collect information on WHS incidents, injuries and near misses. How could analysing these records help the PCBU or health and safety officer improve WHS performance in your organisation?
2. How could your manager effectively implement and monitor your organisation's WHS procedures and programs in your work area or department? Include the following items:
   1. What types of work are performed by your organisation and within your department or work area?
   2. What methods could you use to explain WHS legislative and regulatory requirements to your work group?
   3. What types of issues have you discussed in WHS meetings?
   4. What types of follow-up action have been required from those meetings?
   5. How would you conduct a training needs analysis in your organisation?
   6. What processes or information would you use to do this?
   7. What types of WHS training may be required for workers in your organisation such as first-aid training, operating particular types of machinery, getting a forklift drivers licence or coaching and mentoring?
3. What could be some of the possible outcomes in your organisation if risk controls are inadequate? Why might your organisation's risk control strategies be inadequate? Provide three examples of potential work hazards within your workplace.
4. What methods are used in your workplace to identify hazards? Provide three examples.

Task 2 of 3

Read the scenario, and then answer the questions that follow.

You are required to develop policies and procedures for the WHS system which includes:

1. Standard operating procedures for all machines and equipment, which outline:
   1. Training and skills assessments required before any workers is permitted to operate machinery
   2. Safe operation of machinery including wearing protective clothing and using safety guards
   3. The annual shut-down period for full assessment and repair of all equipment using and maintaining personal protective equipment (PPE)
   4. Storing and using hazardous substances ergonomic and repetitive work practices
   5. First-aid procedures and identifying first-aid officers in the worksite emergency evacuation procedures
   6. Formal procedures for:
      1. Identifying and reporting hazards
      2. Conducting WHS audits and safety inspections

• Conducting risk assessments and implementing risk controls

You are the site manager and you have just met with your senior manager about concerns that workers have regarding WHS in the site. Your work area has reported a number of near misses in the past three (3) months and there have also been five (5)  lost time incidents in the past six (6) months. The safety performance of your work area is declining steadily and you must urgently address this issue.

1. Suggest three (3) actions you would take immediately to start addressing declining WHS performance in your area. Explain why these actions are appropriate and how they could improve WHS performance on the site.
2. Identify any areas where you may require assistance from WHS experts or specialist resources. Why would you require this assistance and how could it help to improve WHS performance?
3. Identify a range of workplace actions that could be implemented to enhance individual and team understanding of WHS responsibilities.

Identify at least one improvement you could make on the current WHS procedure.