Elements and Performance Criteria
- Organise consultation process
- Relevant personnel or other representative personnel are identified and invited into the development and maintenance processes
- Issues raised through consultation are effectively handled according to issue resolution procedures
- Results from the consultation process are verified and made available to relevant personnel
- Consultative processes are flexible and consistent with representatives requirements
- Design Occupational Health and Safety framework
- Hazards and risks are correctly identified and confirmed according to occupational health and safety legislation, codes of practice and prevailing trends
- Procedure for ongoing identification of hazards and risks is developed and integrated within work systems and procedures
- Occupational health and safety policies are developed in line with relevant legislation
- Occupational health and safety responsibilities and duties are clearly defined and incorporated into job descriptions/statements
- Adequate resources are sourced and provided in a timely and consistent manner
- Measures to control assessed risks are developed and implemented in accordance with the hierarchy of control, relevant occupational health and safety legislation, codes of practice and trends
- Interim solutions are implemented until a permanent control measure is developed. Details are recorded clearly and efficiently according to organisation policy and procedures and relevant legislation
- Design and implement an Occupational Health and Safety awareness training program
- Establish, monitor and maintain Occupational Health and safety system
- A system for keeping occupational health and safety records is established in accordance with legislative requirements
- Work activities are monitored to ensure that hazard identification and risk assessment and control procedures are effectively adopted
- Inadequacies in hazard identification, risk assessment and established risk control measures are identified in accordance with the hierarchy of control and reported to designated personnel
- Amendments to procedures are undertaken through appropriate consultation methods
- Establish and maintain a system for accident investigation
- A system is developed and implemented for reporting and investigation of all accidents/incidents in accordance with the policies and procedures
- Training is provided to employees responsible for accident investigation for effective implementation of accident investigation policy
- Policies and procedures for reporting and investigating all accidents/incidents are reviewed and updated as required
- Evaluate the organisation's Occupational Health and Safety system and related policies procedures and programs
- The effectiveness of the occupational health and safety system and related policies, procedures and programs is assessed according to the organisation's occupational health and safety policy
- Improvements to the occupational health and safety system are developed and implemented
- Compliance with occupational health and safety legislation and codes of practice is assessed to ensure that legal occupational health and safety standards are maintained