Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare to implement WHS and environmental policies and procedures
- Identify WHS and environmental legislative and regulatory policies and procedures relevant to workplace context
- Confirm policies and codes of practice relevant to work role
- Locate sources of information on relevant WHS and environmental policies and codes of practice
- Analyse the work environment to identify hazards, assess risks and judge when intervention to control risks is necessary
- Locate or prepare information on workplace WHS and environmental policies, procedures and programs in a suitable format
- Communicate WHS and environmental policies and procedures
- Provide information to the work group about WHS and environmental policies, procedures and programs
- Provide information about identified hazards and the outcomes of risk assessment and risk control procedures
- Explain procedures to manage identified hazards and the outcomes of risk assessment and risk control procedures
- Implement and monitor workplace practices for consultation over WHS and environmental issues to ensure that all members of the work group have the opportunity to contribute
- Promptly deal with and resolve issues raised through consultation or refer to the appropriate personnel for resolution in accordance with workplace procedures
- Inform work group promptly about outcomes of consultation over WHS and environmental issues.
- Implement and monitor practices for identifying hazards and assessing and controlling risks
- Identify and report existing and potential hazards in the work area so that risk assessment and risk control procedures can be applied
- Implement work procedures to control risks and monitor work group to ensure procedures are followed
- Monitor existing risk control measures and report results regularly in accordance with workplace procedures
- Identify any inadequacies in existing risk control measures or resource allocation in accordance with the hierarchy of control and report to designated personnel
- Implement and monitor the practices for dealing with hazardous events
- Assess the resources needed to apply different risk control measures and make recommendations to management
- Implement workplace procedures for dealing with hazardous events whenever necessary to ensure that prompt control action is taken
- Investigate hazardous events to identify their cause in accordance with investigation procedures
- Implement control measures to prevent recurrence and minimise risks of hazardous events based on the hierarchy of control (if within scope of responsibilities and competencies) or refer to designated personnel
- Implement and monitor practices for providing training and maintaining records
- Identify WHS and environmental training needs and specify gaps between competencies required and those held by work group members
- Make arrangements in consultation with relevant parties for fulfilling identified WHS and environmental training needs in both on and off the job training programs
- Complete accurate WHS and environmental records for work area in accordance with workplace and legal requirements
- Aggregate information from area WHS and environmental records, identify hazards and monitor risk control procedures within work area, according to workplace practices