Assessor Resource

SIRXWHS003
Maintain workplace safety

Assessment tool

Version 1.0
Issue Date: April 2024


This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to ensure organisational policies and procedures and legislative requirements are adhered to in the workplace by monitoring and coordinating workplace health and safety practices.

It applies to individuals working in frontline management roles in a diverse range of industry sectors and business contexts. They operate independently with some responsibility for others and decision making, and within established organisational policies and procedures.

This unit incorporates the requirement, under state and territory Work Health and Safety (WHS) legislation, for businesses to take a systematic approach to managing the safety of their workers and anyone else in the workplace.

No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

You may want to include more information here about the target group and the purpose of the assessments (eg formative, summative, recognition)


Evidence Required

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ELEMENTS

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1. Facilitate team awareness of work health and safety.

1.1.Communicate relevant work health and safety legislation, and organisational policies and procedures to team members.

1.2.Make all current work health and safety information readily accessible to staff.

1.3.Demonstrate adherence to work health and safety to reinforce information.

1.4.Regularly provide team members with information on identified hazards and risk control procedures

2. Involve team members in work health and safety matters.

2.1.Provide opportunities for team members to consult and contribute to work health and safety issues and practices.

2.2.Resolve issues raised by team members promptly or refer to relevant personnel.

3. Maintain a safe work environment.

3.1.Monitor team adherence to work health and safety requirements, and arrange work health and safety training as required.

3.2.Implement organisational policies and procedures for identifying, preventing and reporting potential hazards.

3.3.Take prompt action to address non-compliance with procedures and safe work practices.

3.4.Investigate unsafe or hazardous events, identify causes, and report inadequacies in risk control measures or resource allocation for risk control to relevant personnel.

4. Maintain work health and safety records.

4.1.Complete and maintain work health and safety records according to organisational policies and procedures and legislative requirements.

4.2.Use information from records to identify hazards and monitor risk control procedures.

4.3.Provide feedback to relevant personnel on workplace health and safety and areas for improvement.

Evidence of the ability to complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit in the context of the job role, and:

implement and monitor adherence to workplace health and safety requirements across three different work periods by:

identifying non-compliance and tasking appropriate action

providing feedback to team members relevant to work health and safety

coordinating a work health and safety consultative processes

monitor the effectiveness of the work health and safety procedures:

required adjustments

team member training needs

demonstrating correct procedure for applying work health and safety to a work activity

follow organisational policies and procedures to conduct a work health and safety investigation of one unsafe situation or hazardous event

complete all required documentation and reporting for the above work health and safety situation or event.

Demonstrated knowledge required to complete the tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit:

organisational policies and procedures for:

manual handling and safe lifting

emergency procedures including fire, flood and cyclone

unsafe or hazardous goods

handling and storage

waste disposal

bomb threat procedures

store evacuation

accidents, sickness and injury

dangerous customers

recall and contamination

relevant Work Health and Safety (WHS) legislation and codes of practice

hierarchy of risk control

use of personal protective equipment

location of nearest first aid assistant or facility

manual handling and safe lifting techniques

possible fire and safety hazards

communication techniques to clearly communicate work health and safety information

reporting procedures for incidents and hazards

use of safety alarms, fire extinguishers and emergency exits.

Skills must be demonstrated in:

an industry workplace

a simulated industry environment.

Assessment must ensure access to:

relevant work health and safety equipment

relevant documentation:

Work Health and Safety (WHS) legislation

organisational policies and procedures for work health and safety

incident reporting forms

WHS records

team members; these can be:

individuals in an industry workplace, or

individuals who participate in role plays or simulated activities, set up for the purpose of assessment, in a simulated industry environment.

Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations’ requirements for assessors.

Submission Requirements

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Assessment Tasks

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ELEMENTS

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1. Facilitate team awareness of work health and safety.

1.1.Communicate relevant work health and safety legislation, and organisational policies and procedures to team members.

1.2.Make all current work health and safety information readily accessible to staff.

1.3.Demonstrate adherence to work health and safety to reinforce information.

1.4.Regularly provide team members with information on identified hazards and risk control procedures

2. Involve team members in work health and safety matters.

2.1.Provide opportunities for team members to consult and contribute to work health and safety issues and practices.

2.2.Resolve issues raised by team members promptly or refer to relevant personnel.

3. Maintain a safe work environment.

3.1.Monitor team adherence to work health and safety requirements, and arrange work health and safety training as required.

3.2.Implement organisational policies and procedures for identifying, preventing and reporting potential hazards.

3.3.Take prompt action to address non-compliance with procedures and safe work practices.

3.4.Investigate unsafe or hazardous events, identify causes, and report inadequacies in risk control measures or resource allocation for risk control to relevant personnel.

4. Maintain work health and safety records.

4.1.Complete and maintain work health and safety records according to organisational policies and procedures and legislative requirements.

4.2.Use information from records to identify hazards and monitor risk control procedures.

4.3.Provide feedback to relevant personnel on workplace health and safety and areas for improvement.

Evidence of the ability to complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit in the context of the job role, and:

implement and monitor adherence to workplace health and safety requirements across three different work periods by:

identifying non-compliance and tasking appropriate action

providing feedback to team members relevant to work health and safety

coordinating a work health and safety consultative processes

monitor the effectiveness of the work health and safety procedures:

required adjustments

team member training needs

demonstrating correct procedure for applying work health and safety to a work activity

follow organisational policies and procedures to conduct a work health and safety investigation of one unsafe situation or hazardous event

complete all required documentation and reporting for the above work health and safety situation or event.

Demonstrated knowledge required to complete the tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit:

organisational policies and procedures for:

manual handling and safe lifting

emergency procedures including fire, flood and cyclone

unsafe or hazardous goods

handling and storage

waste disposal

bomb threat procedures

store evacuation

accidents, sickness and injury

dangerous customers

recall and contamination

relevant Work Health and Safety (WHS) legislation and codes of practice

hierarchy of risk control

use of personal protective equipment

location of nearest first aid assistant or facility

manual handling and safe lifting techniques

possible fire and safety hazards

communication techniques to clearly communicate work health and safety information

reporting procedures for incidents and hazards

use of safety alarms, fire extinguishers and emergency exits.

Skills must be demonstrated in:

an industry workplace

a simulated industry environment.

Assessment must ensure access to:

relevant work health and safety equipment

relevant documentation:

Work Health and Safety (WHS) legislation

organisational policies and procedures for work health and safety

incident reporting forms

WHS records

team members; these can be:

individuals in an industry workplace, or

individuals who participate in role plays or simulated activities, set up for the purpose of assessment, in a simulated industry environment.

Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations’ requirements for assessors.
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Observation Checklist

Tasks to be observed according to workplace/college/TAFE policy and procedures, relevant legislation and Codes of Practice Yes No Comments/feedback
Communicate relevant work health and safety legislation, and organisational policies and procedures to team members. 
Make all current work health and safety information readily accessible to staff. 
Demonstrate adherence to work health and safety to reinforce information. 
Regularly provide team members with information on identified hazards and risk control procedures 
Provide opportunities for team members to consult and contribute to work health and safety issues and practices. 
Resolve issues raised by team members promptly or refer to relevant personnel. 
Monitor team adherence to work health and safety requirements, and arrange work health and safety training as required. 
Implement organisational policies and procedures for identifying, preventing and reporting potential hazards. 
Take prompt action to address non-compliance with procedures and safe work practices. 
Investigate unsafe or hazardous events, identify causes, and report inadequacies in risk control measures or resource allocation for risk control to relevant personnel. 
Complete and maintain work health and safety records according to organisational policies and procedures and legislative requirements. 
Use information from records to identify hazards and monitor risk control procedures. 
Provide feedback to relevant personnel on workplace health and safety and areas for improvement. 

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