Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan to manage an ESI OHS management system
- Purpose of the OHS management system is established after data is analysed and expected outcomes of the work are confirmed with the appropriate personnel.
- Legislative requirements and established procedures on policies and specifications for the OHS management system are obtained or established with the appropriate personnel.
- Establish procedures and processes for identifying hazards, assessing and controlling risks as well as dealing with hazardous events.
- Work roles and tasks are allocated according to requirements and individual's competencies.
- Work is prioritised and sequenced for the most efficient outcome, completed within an acceptable timeframe to a quality standard and in accordance with established procedures.
- Establish and maintain appropriate participative processes with employees and their representatives in accordance with relevant industry standards consistent with enterprise procedures.
- Deal with and resolve issues raised through participation and consultation promptly and effectively in accordance with procedures for issues resolution.
- Provide information to employees about the outcome of participation and consultation in a manner accessible to employees.
- Manage an ESI OHS management system
- OHS management system(s) decisions are made on the basis of safety and effective outcomes according to requirements and established procedures.
- Essential knowledge and associated skills are applied to analyse specific data and compare it with compliance specifications to ensure completion of the project within an agreed timeframe according to requirements.
- Work teams are arranged to ensure planned goals are met according to established procedures.
- Solutions to non-routine problems are identified and actioned, using acquired essential knowledge and associated skills, according to requirements.
- Quality of work is monitored against personal performance agreement and established organisational and professional standards.
- Strategic plans are developed incorporating organisation initiatives as per established procedures.
- Develop workplace procedures for hazard identification, assessment and control of risks as well as dealing with hazardous events.
- Manage and maintain OHS procedures and processes as well as dealing with hazardous events according to requirements and established procedures.
- Address identification of all hazards at the planning, design and evaluation stages of any changes in the workplace to ensure that new hazards are not created by the proposed changes.
- Develop and maintain procedures for selection and implementation of risk control measures in accordance with the hierarchy of control.
- Identify inadequacies in existing control measures in accordance with the hierarchy of control and provide promptly resources enabling implementation of new measures.
- Complete the management of an ESI OHS management system.
- Final inspections of the OHS management systems are undertaken to ensure they comply with all requirements and include all specifications and documentations needed to complete the project.
- Appropriate personnel are notified of completion and reports and completion documents are finalised.
- Reports and completion documents are submitted to relevant personnel for approval and, where applicable, statutory or regulatory approval.
- Approved copies of the OHS management systems documents are issued and records are updated in accordance with established procedures.
- OHS Training needs are identified and an OHS induction and training program developed to fulfil employee's OHS training needs as a part of the enterprise general training program.
- Training management system(s) are maintained so that individual employee's OHS training needs are easily identified, training attendance monitored and non attendance followed up.
- Monitoring systems for keeping OHS records to meet regulatory requirements are maintained according to OHS legislative arrangements including identification of patterns of occupational injury and disease within area of managerial responsibility.
- OHS system including policies, procedures and programs is assessed according to organisational aims with respect to OHS.
- Recommendations and improvements to the OHS system are developed, documented and implemented to ensure effectiveness according to established procedures.
- Compliance with OHS legislative requirements and established procedures is assessed to ensure that legal OHS standards are maintained as a minimum.
- Appropriate personnel are notified on the outcomes of the evaluation(s) and recommendations and completion documents are finalised/commissioned according to established procedures.