Elements and Performance Criteria
- Assist with incorporating WHS policies and procedures into work team processes
- Use WHS legislation as the basis for meeting the health and safety requirements of a small work team
- Assist in providing and clearly explaining information to the work team about the organisation’s WHS policies, procedures, programs and legislative requirements
- Assist in regularly providing and clearly explaining information to the work team about identifying hazards and risk assessment outcomes
- Support participative arrangements for managing WHS
- Implement and monitor organisational consultative procedures to facilitate participation of the work team in managing work area WHS
- Deal promptly with issues raised through consultation according to organisational procedures for issue resolution
- Encourage and assist work team members to contribute to managing WHS
- Engage with individuals and work teams to identify and implement improvements in managing WHS feedback
- Support the organisation’s procedures for providing WHS training
- Participate in identifying hazards, and assessing and controlling risks for the work area
- Provide advice on hazards in the work area according to organisational policies and procedures, and WHS legal requirements
- Support the implementation of procedures to control risks using the hierarchy of control and according to organisational procedures and WHS legal requirements
- Identify and report inadequacies in existing risk control measures according to organisational procedures, the hierarchy of control and WHS legal requirements
- Accurately complete and maintain WHS incident records in the work area according to organisational procedures and WHS legislative requirements
- Support the organisation’s procedures for providing WHS training