HR (October 2014) intake BX663301 Assessment 1 Question One (16 marks) Read the following case study “Working Holiday Incident”, research Health and Safety in employment in New Zealand and then write your own answers to the questions below relating them where possible to the case study. a) Explain two main responsibilities under the current HSE Act for both employers and employees (four responsibilities in total). (0.5 mark each = 2 marks) b) The case “Working Holiday Incident” states that DVDs and a booklet were used to show safe work practices and presumably, to identify hazards at the pack house. In order to make the site-specific DVD, a hazard identification exercise would have been carried out. Explain in detail how …show more content…
Dieter’s job involved a repetitive task: using a straight pole with a hook on the end to pull out the polystyrene bin liner from each empty kiwifruit bin as it passed by on the conveyor line. After this task, the bins moved along on the conveyor at a slow and steady pace until they reached a stacking machine. This machine was an automatic forklift that stacked five empty bins on top of one another ready for moving along to be loaded on to trucks for transport back to the orchard. Here they were filled again, and the process repeated. On the night of the incident, Dieter had started his shift on time at 11.00pm. He had been in his job for 19 days, working an average of 50 hours a week. He had his normal break at 1.15am. At about 2.00am he missed removing a bin liner. He then left his work station and followed that bin on its journey along the conveyor belt to try and remove the liner before the bin was stacked by the automatic forklift. This was a practice he and other workers had observed and carried out several times, even though they were expected to leave missed bin liners, and not leave their work station. While Dieter was trying to retrieve the missed bin liner, he either slipped or was knocked by one of the stacker forks, causing him to become jammed by the forks that continued to come down on his head as they tried to pick up the bin. His screams were heard and a
State how personal behaviour demonstrates responsibility for general workplace health, safety and welfare, in relation to:
3. Mr. Theurer did not act within the scope of his employment, as per McDonald’s informal policy. Theurer did work more than one midnight shift per week, and he did work split shifts.
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Reporting of Injuries,Diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations of 1995 requires the reporting of work-related accidents, diseases and dangerous occurrences. The Act applies to all work related activities, but not to all work related incidents. The objective of the regulations is to enable the enforcing authorities to identify where and how risks arise and to investigate serious accidents so as to prevent them from occurring in the future and thus providing a safer work environment. The enforcing authorities can then help and advise you on preventive action to reduce injury, ill health and accidental loss,the main points of our own policy that relate to this are:
2.2- Demonstrate how to deal with hazards to minimise risks to the health, safety and security of children and young people.
2. GIVING FEEDBACK = Verbal feedback, Written Feedback.{Try to be positive, Don’t be negative candidates find this demoralising}
The main features of the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) is that it requires certain health and safety procedures to be maintained in a health and social care setting, for example, the act explains that there must be, safe operation and maintenance of working equipment, plant and system, maintenance of safe access to the workplace, safe use, handling and storage of dangerous/hazardous substances, training of staff to ensure that there is health and safety, to provide welfare for staff at work.
1. Describe different types of accidents and sudden illness that may occur in own work setting.
Upgrade Work Health and Safety (WHS) system. Conduct meeting with WHS officer and manage new policy and procedure for work health and safety. Relevant legislation Fair Work Act 2009 ( Cwlth), Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW).
Questioning is a method of testing knowledge by asking the learner a series of questions related to the performance criteria. It is important that the assessor plans the questions beforehand, ensuring that open questions are used, and identifies the means of recording them, whether it be written; voice recorded or videoed. Questioning can be a very useful assessment method used alongside other methods. With observation, in particular, ‘what if’ questions can be used for evidence that might be hard to obtain, for example.
In my point of view assessment is a testing tool by which a teacher or assessor can use to detect the outcomes of teaching, learning or assessment process with the learners by
Shortcomings with regards to the workplace are a result of poor supervision and the need for employees to be made more aware of the consequences of their actions by managers, supervisors and their peers alike. Removal of objects causing obstructions or increasing risk of slips, trips and falls is mostly a supervisory responsibility. These included unsuitable rugs, PPE storage and used pallets (5, 16, 24 & 27). There were instances where simple, inexpensive alterations and consultation by management with staff and supervisors would reduce risks throughout all facilities. Signs legible by all staff (6.) and shared facilities (7) are cases in point. The use of available manual handling was not evidently enforced as a matter of routine (10)
All of relevant sections of Part A and Part B MUST be completed by the student and the form submitted with the assignment on or by the required submission date. Please note that you should always keep a copy of your assignment.
Assessment is the systematic collection, review, and use of information about educational programs undertaken for the purpose of improving student learning and development (Palomba & Banta, 1999). Educational assessments are carried out to measure the efficiency of the program, the quality of instruction and progress of a child’s learning. The purpose is to determine the growth and development.
Evaluation and Assessment. The best practice of evaluation and assessment include the evaluation in each courses and the overall assessment of the whole program. Evaluation and assessment section is an inevitable portion of quality control. DE with much integration of technology, especially needs evaluation and assessment. In the OU of the UK, the Governance Effective Reviews take place every year. In the website, it states: