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Evidence Guide: BSBWHS501 - Ensure a safe workplace

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BSBWHS501 - Ensure a safe workplace

What evidence can you provide to prove your understanding of each of the following citeria?

Establish a WHS management system in a work area

  1. Locate, adapt, adopt and communicate WHS policies that clearly define the organisation’s commitment to complying with WHS legislation
  2. Identify duty holders and define WHS responsibilities for all workplace personnel in the work area according to WHS legislation, policies, procedures and programs
  3. Identify and approve financial and human resources required by the WHS management system (WHSMS)
Locate, adapt, adopt and communicate WHS policies that clearly define the organisation’s commitment to complying with WHS legislation

Completed
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Identify duty holders and define WHS responsibilities for all workplace personnel in the work area according to WHS legislation, policies, procedures and programs

Completed
Date:

Teacher:		 Evidence:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Identify and approve financial and human resources required by the WHS management system (WHSMS)

Completed
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Establish and maintain effective and compliant participation arrangements for managing WHS in a work area

  1. Work with workers and their representatives to set up and maintain participation arrangements according to relevant WHS legislation
  2. Appropriately resolve issues raised through participation and consultation arrangements according to relevant WHS legislation
  3. Promptly provide information about the outcomes of participation and consultation to workers and ensure it is easy for them to access and understand
Work with workers and their representatives to set up and maintain participation arrangements according to relevant WHS legislation

Completed
Date:

Teacher:		 Evidence:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Appropriately resolve issues raised through participation and consultation arrangements according to relevant WHS legislation

Completed
Date:

Teacher:		 Evidence:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Promptly provide information about the outcomes of participation and consultation to workers and ensure it is easy for them to access and understand

Completed
Date:

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Establish and maintain procedures for effectively identifying hazards, and assessing and controlling risks in a work area

  1. Develop procedures for ongoing hazard identification, and assessment and control of associated risks
  2. Include hazard identification at the planning, design and evaluation stages of any change in the workplace to ensure that new hazards are not created by the proposed changes and existing hazards are controlled
  3. Develop and maintain procedures for selecting and implementing risk controls according to the hierarchy of control and WHS legislative requirements
  4. Identify inadequacies in existing risk controls according to the hierarchy of control and WHS legislative requirements, and promptly provide resources to enable implementation of new measures
  5. Identify requirements for expert WHS advice, and request this advice as required
Develop procedures for ongoing hazard identification, and assessment and control of associated risks

Completed
Date:

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Include hazard identification at the planning, design and evaluation stages of any change in the workplace to ensure that new hazards are not created by the proposed changes and existing hazards are controlled

Completed
Date:

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Develop and maintain procedures for selecting and implementing risk controls according to the hierarchy of control and WHS legislative requirements

Completed
Date:

Teacher:		 Evidence:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Identify inadequacies in existing risk controls according to the hierarchy of control and WHS legislative requirements, and promptly provide resources to enable implementation of new measures

Completed
Date:

Teacher:		 Evidence:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Identify requirements for expert WHS advice, and request this advice as required

Completed
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Teacher:		 Evidence:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evaluate and maintain a work area WHS management system

  1. Develop and provide a WHS induction and training program for all workers in a work area as part of the organisation’s training program
  2. Use a system for WHS record keeping to allow identification of patterns of occupational injury and disease in the organisation, and to maintain a record of WHS decisions made, including reasons for the decision
  3. Measure and evaluate the WHSMS in line with the organisation’s quality systems framework
  4. Develop and implement improvements to the WHSMS to achieve organisational WHS objectives
  5. Ensure compliance with the WHS legislative framework to achieve, as a minimum, WHS legal requirements
Develop and provide a WHS induction and training program for all workers in a work area as part of the organisation’s training program

Completed
Date:

Teacher:		 Evidence:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Use a system for WHS record keeping to allow identification of patterns of occupational injury and disease in the organisation, and to maintain a record of WHS decisions made, including reasons for the decision

Completed
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Measure and evaluate the WHSMS in line with the organisation’s quality systems framework

Completed
Date:

Teacher:		 Evidence:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Develop and implement improvements to the WHSMS to achieve organisational WHS objectives

Completed
Date:

Teacher:		 Evidence:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ensure compliance with the WHS legislative framework to achieve, as a minimum, WHS legal requirements

Completed
Date:

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Assessed

Teacher: ___________________________________ Date: _________

Signature: ________________________________________________

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Instructions to Assessors

Evidence Guide

ELEMENT

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1 Establish a WHS management system in a work area

1.1 Locate, adapt, adopt and communicate WHS policies that clearly define the organisation’s commitment to complying with WHS legislation

1.2 Identify duty holders and define WHS responsibilities for all workplace personnel in the work area according to WHS legislation, policies, procedures and programs

1.3 Identify and approve financial and human resources required by the WHS management system (WHSMS)

2 Establish and maintain effective and compliant participation arrangements for managing WHS in a work area

2.1 Work with workers and their representatives to set up and maintain participation arrangements according to relevant WHS legislation

2.2 Appropriately resolve issues raised through participation and consultation arrangements according to relevant WHS legislation

2.3 Promptly provide information about the outcomes of participation and consultation to workers and ensure it is easy for them to access and understand

3 Establish and maintain procedures for effectively identifying hazards, and assessing and controlling risks in a work area

3.1 Develop procedures for ongoing hazard identification, and assessment and control of associated risks

3.2 Include hazard identification at the planning, design and evaluation stages of any change in the workplace to ensure that new hazards are not created by the proposed changes and existing hazards are controlled

3.3 Develop and maintain procedures for selecting and implementing risk controls according to the hierarchy of control and WHS legislative requirements

3.4 Identify inadequacies in existing risk controls according to the hierarchy of control and WHS legislative requirements, and promptly provide resources to enable implementation of new measures

3.5 Identify requirements for expert WHS advice, and request this advice as required

4 Evaluate and maintain a work area WHS management system

4.1 Develop and provide a WHS induction and training program for all workers in a work area as part of the organisation’s training program

4.2 Use a system for WHS record keeping to allow identification of patterns of occupational injury and disease in the organisation, and to maintain a record of WHS decisions made, including reasons for the decision

4.3 Measure and evaluate the WHSMS in line with the organisation’s quality systems framework

4.4 Develop and implement improvements to the WHSMS to achieve organisational WHS objectives

4.5 Ensure compliance with the WHS legislative framework to achieve, as a minimum, WHS legal requirements

Required Skills and Knowledge

ELEMENT

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1 Establish a WHS management system in a work area

1.1 Locate, adapt, adopt and communicate WHS policies that clearly define the organisation’s commitment to complying with WHS legislation

1.2 Identify duty holders and define WHS responsibilities for all workplace personnel in the work area according to WHS legislation, policies, procedures and programs

1.3 Identify and approve financial and human resources required by the WHS management system (WHSMS)

2 Establish and maintain effective and compliant participation arrangements for managing WHS in a work area

2.1 Work with workers and their representatives to set up and maintain participation arrangements according to relevant WHS legislation

2.2 Appropriately resolve issues raised through participation and consultation arrangements according to relevant WHS legislation

2.3 Promptly provide information about the outcomes of participation and consultation to workers and ensure it is easy for them to access and understand

3 Establish and maintain procedures for effectively identifying hazards, and assessing and controlling risks in a work area

3.1 Develop procedures for ongoing hazard identification, and assessment and control of associated risks

3.2 Include hazard identification at the planning, design and evaluation stages of any change in the workplace to ensure that new hazards are not created by the proposed changes and existing hazards are controlled

3.3 Develop and maintain procedures for selecting and implementing risk controls according to the hierarchy of control and WHS legislative requirements

3.4 Identify inadequacies in existing risk controls according to the hierarchy of control and WHS legislative requirements, and promptly provide resources to enable implementation of new measures

3.5 Identify requirements for expert WHS advice, and request this advice as required

4 Evaluate and maintain a work area WHS management system

4.1 Develop and provide a WHS induction and training program for all workers in a work area as part of the organisation’s training program

4.2 Use a system for WHS record keeping to allow identification of patterns of occupational injury and disease in the organisation, and to maintain a record of WHS decisions made, including reasons for the decision

4.3 Measure and evaluate the WHSMS in line with the organisation’s quality systems framework

4.4 Develop and implement improvements to the WHSMS to achieve organisational WHS objectives

4.5 Ensure compliance with the WHS legislative framework to achieve, as a minimum, WHS legal requirements

Range Statement

This section specifies different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.

WHS legislation must include:

applicable Commonwealth and state or territory WHS Acts, regulations and codes of practice.