Elements and Performance Criteria
- Assist with providing appropriate advice about legal frameworks relevant to WHS
- Ensure assistance provided is appropriate to own job responsibilities and functions
- Understand own limits of skills, knowledge and competence when providing assistance
- Identify situations where it is necessary to seek advice from or refer matters to legal advisors and others and seek or refer accordingly
- Assist with determining legal frameworks relevant to WHS
- Monitor currentWHS legislation and other legislation, related documentation and other sources relevant to the organisation and its operations
- Identify changes, amendments and emerging issues in legislation relevant to the organisation
- Assist with determining current and future legal requirements relevant to WHS in the workplace
- Assist with identifying, confirming, reviewing and updating the duties, rights and obligations of individuals and parties as specified in legislation
- Communicate changes, amendments and emerging issues in legislation to individuals and parties
- Seek advice from legal advisors and other sources where necessary
- Assist with providing advice on compliance with legal frameworks relevant to WHS
- Assist with providing advice to individuals and parties about their compliance with legal duties, rights and obligations under WHS legislation and other legislation relevant to WHS
- Assist with providing advice to individuals and parties about the functions and powers of WHS and other relevant regulators, and how they are exercised
- Assist with evaluating and implementing measures to comply with legal frameworks relevant to WHS
- Assist with assessing how the workplace complies with WHS and other relevant legislation
- Assist with identifying the training needs of individuals and parties about duties, rights and obligations
- Assist with developing, delivering and evaluating training to meet identified training needs and any legal requirements for training
- Assist with developing, implementing and evaluating changes to workplace procedures, activities, processes, policies and systems that will achieve compliance