Elements and Performance Criteria
- Manage workplace health and safety information and records
- Relevant workplace health and safety legislation, standards, codes of practice/compliance codes, guidance materials and other sources of workplace health and safety information are identified, accessed and evaluated for their relevance to the specific work context.
- Information on workplace health and safety requirements, trends and risk controls are collected, collated and provided.
- Records and record keeping processes are reviewed to ensure that legal requirements for workplace health and safety record keeping are identified and addressed.
- Processes are implemented and monitored to ensure that workplace health and safety records are accurately completed, collected and stored in accordance with legal requirements and workplace procedures.
- Manage workplace health and safety participative processes
- Participative processes are monitored to ensure compliance with legislative requirements and organisation procedures.
- Information provided to employees is evaluated to ensure it is in a readily accessible and understandable format.
- Processes are implemented and monitored to ensure that workgroup members have an opportunity, either directly or through their representative, to contribute to decisions that may affect their health and safety.
- Processes for addressing workplace health and safety issues are evaluated to ensure issues raised through consultation are resolved promptly and in line with organisation procedures and legislative requirements.
- Information is provided promptly about the outcomes of consultation in a format and medium that is readily accessible to employees.
- Manage workplace health and safety risk management processes
- Processes for hazard, incident, and injury reporting and investigation are reviewed to ensure compliance with legislative requirements and to inform future prevention strategies.
- Processes are monitored to ensure that hazard identification and risk assessments occur according to organisation procedures.
- Risk controls and hazard specific procedures are checked to ensure consistency with the hierarchy of risk control and are monitored to support compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements.
- Any workplace health and safety implications of either proposed or implemented changes to the workplace, work processes or organisation of work are identified and addressed.
- Limits of own professional expertise are recognised and expert advisors are consulted as required.
- Manage workplace health and safety training program
- Workplace health and safety training needs assessment is undertaken for workgroup members that takes account of legislative and regulatory requirements, internal policies and procedures, existing skills of workgroup members and risk control requirements.
- Training programs are implemented and monitored to ensure identified workplace health and safety training requirements are addressed.
- Processes to ensure that all new employees receive workplace health and safety induction are implemented and monitored.
- Relevant workplace health and safety and training specialists are accessed and consulted as required, in the development and implementation of the workplace health and safety training program.
- Manage workplace health and safety continuous improvement process
- Input from individuals and workgroup is considered in identifying and implementing workplace health and safety improvement.
- Workplace health and safety priorities are determined in consultation with appropriate managers and stakeholders.
- Workplace health and safety action plans are developed taking account of priorities and training needs.
- Achievements against the workplace health and safety plans are monitored and plans updated accordingly.