Elements and Performance Criteria
- Perform all work safely
- Use established work practices and personal protective equipment to ensure personal safety and that of other laboratory personnel
- Clean, care for and store equipment, materials and reagents as required
- Minimise the generation of wastes and environmental impacts
- Ensure safe disposal of laboratory/hazardous wastes
- Ensure others in the work group are able to implement safe work practices
- Ensure hazard controls and personal protective clothing and equipment appropriate to the work requirements are available and functional
- Provide and communicate current information on OHS and environmental policies, procedures and programs to others
- Ensure hazards and control measures relating to work responsibilities are known by those in the work area
- Provide support to those in the work area to implement procedures to support safety
- Identify and address training needs within level of responsibility
- Monitor observance of safe work practices in the work area
- Ensure enterprise procedures are clearly defined, documented and followed
- Identify any deviation from identified procedures and report and address within level of responsibility
- Ensure personal behaviour is consistent with enterprise policies and procedures
- Encourage and follow up others to identify and report hazards in the work area
- Monitor conditions and follow up to ensure housekeeping standards in the work area are maintained
- Participate in risk management processes
- Report and address any identified hazards and inadequacies in existing risk controls within level of responsibility and according to enterprise procedures
- Participate in risk assessments to identify and analyse risks
- Support the implementation of procedures to control risk (based on the hierarchy of control)
- Ensure records of incidents in the work area and other required documentation are accurately completed and maintained according to enterprise procedures and legislative requirements
- Support the implementation of participative arrangements
- Support the implementation of emergency procedures within the work group
- Ensure that enterprise procedures for dealing with incidents and emergencies are available and known by work group
- Implement processes to ensure that others in the work area are able to respond appropriately to incidents and emergencies
- Participate, as required, in investigations of hazardous incidents to identify their cause