Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify health hazards that may result from features of the workplace or working environment
- Workplace factors that may affect the health of workers are identified.
- Health hazards that may result from work processes, work operations, equipment and work procedures are identified.
- Possible routes of entry to the body and consequent effects on the body are identified for different workplace factors.
- Situations are identified where OHS specialists and other advisers may be required.
- Analyse the risks of worker exposure to potentially harmful agents and factors
- Sources of exposure and related factors to potentially harmful agents and factors in work processes and methods are determined.
- Equipment, sampling plan and techniques for assessing the exposure to selected agents and factors within a workplace are identified.
- Monitoring and sampling results to provide an assessment of exposure are interpreted and evaluated.
- Exposure standards are utilised in the assessment of risks.
- Workplace measurements, interpretations and recommendations are reported to stakeholders in a suitable format for target group.
- Design risk control strategies and advise on implementation
- The hierarchy of control is applied to design risk control strategies, noting that personal protective equipment is regarded as the least satisfactory control measure.
- Inadequacies in existing control measures are identified and remedial advice is provided.
- Effective consultation and collaboration is undertaken with organisation, affected employees and others when developing, selecting and implementing risk control measures.
- External sources of information and data and specialist advisers are accessed as required on nature of health hazard, level of risk, and risk control options.
- Monitor and evaluate control strategies to minimise workplace exposures
- Quality and outcomes of interventions are monitored and evaluated regularly in consultation with stakeholders and relevant employees.
- Modifications to interventions are facilitated including consultations, as required, as a result of findings of regular evaluation and monitoring.
- Training needs are identified in consultation with workplace stakeholders, documented and arranged if required.
- Recommendations are made regarding future interventions as a result of evaluation and monitoring.