Elements and Performance Criteria
- Establish and maintain a WHS management system
- Locate, adapt, adopt and communicate WHS policies that clearly define the organisation’s commitment to complying with WHS legislation
- Identify duty holders and define WHS responsibilities for all workplace personnel according to WHS legislation, policies, procedures and programs
- Identify and approve financial and human resources required by the WHS management system (WHSMS)
- Establish and maintain effective and compliant participation arrangements for managing WHS
- Work with workers and their representatives to set up and maintain participation arrangements according to relevant WHS legislation
- Appropriately resolve issues raised through participation and consultation arrangements according to relevant WHS legislation
- Promptly provide information about the outcomes of participation and consultation to workers and ensure it is easy for them to access and understand
- Establish and maintain procedures for effectively identifying hazards, and assessing and controlling risks
- Develop procedures for ongoing hazard identification, and assessment and control of associated risks
- Include hazard identification at the planning, design and evaluation stages of any change in the workplace to ensure that new hazards are not created by the proposed changes and existing hazards are controlled
- Develop and maintain procedures for selecting and implementing risk controls according to the hierarchy of control and WHS legislative requirements
- Identify inadequacies in existing risk controls according to the hierarchy of control and WHS legislative requirements, and promptly provide resources to enable implementation of new measures
- Identify requirements for expert WHS advice, and request this advice as required
- Evaluate and maintain a WHS management system
- Develop and provide a WHS induction and training program for all workers as part of the organisation’s training program
- Use a system for WHS recordkeeping to allow identification of patterns of occupational injury and disease in the organisation, and to maintain a record of WHS decisions made, including reasons for the decision
- Measure and evaluate the WHSMS in line with the organisation’s quality systems framework
- Develop and implement improvements to the WHSMS to achieve organisational WHS objectives
- Ensure compliance with the WHS legislative framework so that, as a minimum, WHS legal requirements are achieved