Elements and Performance Criteria
- Establish and maintain a framework for occupational health and safety in the area of responsibility
- Develop and clearly articulate health, safety and security policies in relevant policy documents
- Define and allocate health and safety responsibilities clearly, including relevant information in job descriptions and duty statements
- Identify, seek or provide adequate financial and human resources to address workplace safety issues
- Provide and explain information on occupational health and safety systems and procedures in a form readily accessible to employees
- Develop and implement an occupational health and safety training program
- Establish and monitor a system for keeping occupational health and safety records
- Establish and maintain participative arrangements for the management of occupational health and safety
- Establish and maintain procedures for identifying, assessing and controlling hazards and risks
- Identify and assess existing and potential hazards in the workplace
- Develop procedures for ongoing identification, assessment and control of risks and integrate this within work systems and procedures
- Develop and implement measures to control assessed risks, including interim solutions where necessary
- Monitor activities to ensure that procedures for risk assessment and control are adopted
- Address the issues of hazard identification, risk assessment and control at the planning, design and evaluation stages of any change in the workplace to ensure that new hazards are not created
- Assess and control risks presented by identified hazards in accordance with OHS legislation and codes of practice
- Evaluate the organisation's health and safety system
- Assess the effectiveness of the occupational health and safety system and related policies, procedures and programs, in accordance with the organisation's aims with respect to occupational health and safety
- Develop and implement improvements to the occupational health and safety system to ensure more effective achievement of the organisation's aims with respect to occupational health and safety
- Assess compliance with occupational health and safety legislation and codes of practice to ensure that legal occupational health and safety standards are maintained as a minimum