AMHS600 Health and safety

In your analysis report you will need to include:

1 A summary analysis in your own words of your interpretation of the sequence of events leading up to the accident and impact on worker wellbeing

2 A description and analysis of how you believe Niagara Sawmilling Company Ltd breached section 48 (1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA).  Section 48 (1) of the Act can be accessed here

A description and analysis how you believe Niagara Sawmilling Company Ltd ignored good practice standards and code of practice provided by WorkSafe – the relevant information can be found here (but it is recommended to conduct additional research of the case to add more information):

Note that your description and analysis must include clear description of, and reference to, critical elements of health, safety, and worker wellbeing practices that Niagara Sawmilling Company Ltd appear to have been negligent of, and that contributed to the accident and injuries

3 A description and analysis of key HSWA related PCBU, Officer, Worker and other Duty Holder roles and responsibilities that Niagara Sawmilling Company Ltd appears to have been negligent of

4 Production of a hazard identification and related risk assessment that outlines potential hazards, identification of connected risks and their risk assessment. You are expected to list at least 10 potential hazards that could be found in a provided work environment (you might need to do some additional research on this topic as some of the hazards do not have to be clearly evident). You also need to identify at least 1 risk connected to each hazard. Finally, you assess all risks according to their potential harm and probability You are expected to use a risk assessment matrix as the risk assessment tool for this task (3x3) and to provide proper justification of your assessment decisions.

(20 marks)

5 Application of hierarchy of controls to the identified hazards that would be reasonably applicable and would assist in preventing future occurrences of notifiable eventsYou are expected to justify your choice of selected controls and provide an evidence of using hierarchy of controls correc

6 You must include reference to, and excerpts from, HSWA and WorkSafe NZ publications and other used resources that support your analysis (minimum of 8 references from at least 5 different sources). The referencing must be provided in APA 6^th style.