Essay: Simulated Workforce Initiatives And Workplace Safety Review.

Benefits of Simulated Workforce Initiatives

1. Review the simulated workplace information for Pitstop Pty Ltd (below).

2. Conduct an initial review of the simulated workplace, including core elements of the system:
a. organisational requirements for WHS management
b. responsibilities and accountabilities for WHS
c. WHS risk management and procedures
d. documentation and recordkeeping requirements for monitoring and review and demonstration of compliance
e. employee capability and need for training.

Note: Some relevant information may be gathered from the simulated workplace information provided below; some information may be gathered through the process of consultation.

3. Review the summaries of consultation meetings with organisational stakeholders to gain input into proposed WHSMS (you will need to address the stakeholder concerns in your WHSMS).

4. Conduct any research necessary to support your proposal for the design of a WHSMS, for example on:
a. Victorian WHS legal framework
b. NSW or Qld WHS Act, to support your proposal for the design of a WHSMS
c. relevant standards for WHS management systems, risk management and recordkeeping.

5. Develop a draft WHS policy for Pitstop Pty Ltd.

6. Develop a (1–2 page) written outline of core elements of your proposed WHS management system and your response to issues raised by Amanda Kaisig and Pat Lee.
a. Store Manager of flagship store, Amanda Kaisig needs to be reassured that the new system will deal systematically with all health and safety problems, that the board of directors is fully committed and will provide the required resources.
b. Worker representative from former ISS stores, Pat Lee is willing to communicate the importance and benefits of the new WHSMS to workers, but only if convinced of the benefits to workers and that management has given its full commitment to any new WHSMS.

7. Arrange a time with your assessor to complete management role-play in which you propose design of your WHS management system and WHS policy to the board of directors and CEO during a meeting.

8. In a 10–15 minute role-play consultation session, propose the design of an appropriate WHS management system and WHS draft policy to the board of directors and CEO. Ensure you lead the meeting and discuss:
a. core elements of system and proposed changes or additions
b. relevant standards
c. relevant legislative requirements for WHS management, including those related to recordkeeping
d. WHS policy requirements
e. how policy will be communicated to employees
f. how design of WHS management system and WHS policy meet internal and external requirements
g. possible certification option and process of certification.

The simulated workforce initiatives are considered as the program that helps the employees to understand how to function and thrive in the workplace. This program also help the employees to gain the knowledge of the effective workplace conditions and how to apply it in the real world. By arranging this types of programs the business economy hire workers those are more skilled and dedicated. As stated by Rodríguez and Juri?i? (2018), the main motto of this program is to provide the effective informations leading to success of the workers and the business. The simulated workplace programs mainly provides the informations related to the transformations of the cultures of the Career and the technical education by the creation of the high-quality of the business and the learning environments for the employees.

Pitsop Pty Ltd are required to arrange such programs for engaging the employees and the relevant curriculum along with the opportunities for earning the industry-recognized credentials. For developing the simulated workplace, the objectives is to follow the current curriculum in the proposeful manner. Pitsop Pty Ltd are also expected to place the business and the industry operations that are related to the ready skills of the employees that are required. The employees are provided with the understanding aspects and in that programs the business are required to cite the real examples of the individual success that leads to company’s profitability. The employees are required to be get a clear view of the understanding skills and the knowledge of how they could structure their job career. The program should involve the technical courses for utilizing the real project-based learnings and the simulated workplace informations should involve the ethics based on the workplace process and regarding the behaviors that are comprised of the integral skills for the successful employment.

Conduct an initial review of the simulated workplace, including core elements of the system 

The organization are required to follow the safety informations in the workplace for minimizing the people’s risk, property’s risk and the environment. The organization’s officer involving the CEO’s, directors and the senior management team have the greatest corporate and the legislative responsibility for demonstrating the approach towards health and safety of the employees.

According to Medway, Bennison and Warnaby (2016), the organization should follow the objectives for meeting the requirements of the business for WHS management are:

• Identifying the diligence requirements for understanding the best practices in the WHS management.
• Developing the framework for maintaining the WHS management in the workplace.
• Planning strategies for the implementation of the WHS management.
• The organization should outline the methods for improving and reviewing the WHS management system.
• The employees are required to be provided with the practical tools for assisting the WHS management system and the achievement of the business objectives.

The responsibilities of the WHS is to provide the effective work environment which are not associated with the health and safety risks that are comprised of the safety plans and the structures. The organization are also required to provide the work environments through the safety systems of work and the using up of the storage plant, the structures. As the absence of those structures would lead to the substances and the welfare facilities of the associations (Jones and Nhung 2016).

Objectives of Simulated Workplace Development

The major responsibilities of the organization are listed below:

• Providing and maintaining the safe and healthy workplaces for the workers
• Providing and maintaining the safe means of access that is to and from the workplace which will be beneficial for the workers.
• Consulting with the stakeholders where the appropriate and the legislations are required for ensuring the effective cooperation in developing, reviewing and promoting the measures for ensuring the worker’s health, safety and the welfare at work.

Everybody in the organization are required to identify and resolve the hazards throughout their day to day workings as most of the hazards are related to the riskware. The organization’s supervisors are required to ensure that the employees are aware of the safety instructions in the work environment. The organizational risks are required to be identified by the organization for determining the risks that are associated in the work place based on the day to day activities. The organization are required to impose the risk assessment projects for identifying the organization risks that may cause safety risks for the employees (Galvin 2016).

The organization are required to make the survey or the interview process for identifying the daily safety threats that the employees are facing in their working place. The organization should look after the technical issues whenever they found any whistle blowing regarding any technical issues as most of the safety threats comes from the technical risks.

The organization are also required to follow the health risks of the employees that may occurs due to less focus on the pest control process or the open smoking zones thus the organization are required to look after all the factors.

The organization should keep the proper and the effective records of the employee’s reviews for maintaining the effective monitoring process. This is so because the business will be able to realize the requirements of the safety requirements and the services they are required to introduce by the keeping the reviews of the employees. The organization are required to keep the record by the effective data management process. The organizations are required to improve and maintain the data storage facilities for maintaining the proper documentation of the employee’s data. This is also recommended for the organization to develop the data analysis process in the most effective ways.

The record keeping will help the organization to identify the employee’s complaints regarding the safety issues in the working place. The recordkeeping will help the organization to analyze and determine the essential requirements of the safety measures as reviewed by the employees (Becker and Smidt 2016).

The employee capability and the requirements for the trainings are required to be focused by the organization. The employees are required to focus on the safety informations and the risk management instructions that are provided by the organizations. For making improvements in the organizations safety and risk management, the employees are required to provide their authenticated reviews regarding the safety issues and the health issues they have faced in the working environment (Park and Santos 2017).

Roles and Responsibilities for Workplace Health and Safety

The organization should arrange the program for evaluating the informations regarding the safety project among the employees. Through that program the employees will understand the importance of maintain the safety instructions in the working place and their consecutive effects in the working place if the safety instructions are not followed by the employees.

The consultations meetings plays the effective roles in finding out the requirements of the safety means associated with the employees in the working place. The organizations are required to arrange for the investment for maintaining the safety equipment’s. For example for managing the health risk of the employees the organizations are required to maintain the effective methods of hazards management in the business re required to develop the meetings with the stakeholders (Bennett, Dexter and Sakoulas 2016). The stakeholders are responsible as well as accountable for maintaining the business decisions and for proper identification of the safety measures and the steps of the safety measures are required to be determined before taking the ultimate decision for the business process.

The consultation meetings are generally utilized by the organization for negotiating the investments made by the stakeholders for the implementation of the risk management process and the steps of the safety measurement process. The consultation meetings should be organized for maintaining and analyzing the data reviewed by the students. The business are required to maintain the consultations meeting for analyzing the problems of each and every employees. The consultations meetings are mostly maintained by the organization for increasing the safety measure plan in the working place.

Therefore this could be recommended to maintain the consultation meetings for analysis and taking measures for each of the complaints made by the employees due to the safety or the health risks they have faced in the working environment (Madushika et al. 2018). Thus it can be concluded that the safety measures and the risk management measures required the investment and the final approval from the stakeholders of any business before implementation of the safety measure plan and the risk management process.

References

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Galvin, J., 2016. Director and senior management accountability for workplace health and safety. AusIMM bulletin, (Feb 2016), p.56.

Becker, K. and Smidt, M., 2016. A risk perspective on human resource management: A review and directions for future research. Human Resource Management Review, 26(2), pp.149-165.

Park, S. and Santos, C.A., 2017. From translocal to transnational: WHS articulations. Annals of Tourism Research, 64, pp.102-113.

Bennett, I., Dexter, L. and Sakoulas, K., 2016. WHS enforceable undertakings on the rise. Governance Directions, 68(11), p.669.

Madushika, W.H.S., Perera, B.A.K.S., Ekanayake, B.J. and Shen, G.Q.P., 2018. Key performance indicators of value management in the Sri Lankan construction industry. International Journal of Construction Management, pp.1-12.