Managing Work Health And Safety At The Pitstop Pty Ltd.

Task 4Ensuring health and safety is an important responsibility not only for the Managers but all associated with the premises. Evaluate your organisation’s health and safety policy and procedures in line with legislative requirements and propose recommendations on how health and safety should be managed

*tell the employees about any potential hazards from the work they do, chemicals and other substances used by the business, and give employees information, instructions, training and supervision as needed (COSHH)

Provide a safe workplace for employees who include facilities and work systems ensure that employees are able to safely handle equipment or substances, as well as providing a safe area to store harmful material provide the proper training, supervision, instruction and information in the performance of their roles. (Find Law: Australia Workplace Accidents: What You Should Know)

These Policies and procedures are in place to adhere to, to keep everyone safe and maintain a safe place to work for everyone to work in. Keeping

• Provide and maintain a safe working environment by the use of safe systems of work

Describe how current health and safety legislation, policies and procedures are implemented in the setting.

Also employers should provide up to date courses on health and safety to ensure that staff know how to keep themselves and others safe in the workplace and any outside visitors or customers that come in and to be able to co-operate with their employers. Also make sure they are following safety rules like using equipment safely, ensuring materials used are properly stored, handled, used and transported, to provide a safe working environment for employers, to provide a written safety policy/risk assessment, also staff should know what to do in case of an accident occurring at work or how to report any safety risks.

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).

The employer also has to comply with all standards, rules, and regulations that are set forth by OSHA and the OSH Act. Employers are required to inspect the workplace to insure they are up to OSHA standards. Insure that employees are only using safe tools and equipment that are in their proper condition. It should be easy for the employees to be aware of potential hazards by the employer posting signs, using color codes, labels, or signs to convey warning. Employees must be trained in a language that they understand. Operating procedures must be in place and properly communicated to the employees to assure the employees follow safety and health standards. Employers that house or use hazardous chemicals will be required to have hazardous communication program and for that all the employees to be trained on exposure and precautions. Employers are to fund medical exams if required by OSHA standards. The OSHA poster must placed in a prominent location at the workplace. Records need to be kept of work-related injuries and illnesses. The log of these injuries and illnesses need to made available on February 1st for three months. Assure employees have access to medical and exposure records. Provide a workplace free of discrimination. OSHA citations must be posted at or near the work area where the infraction occurred. The citation must be in place for three working days or until the

providing and maintaining safe plant and safe systems of work such as controlling entry to high risk areas, controlling work pace and frequency and providing systems to prevent falls from heights

It is important it have a written work Health and Safety Policy for the organizations and businesses which have management systems. The Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 addresses Major Hazard Facilities in Regulation 558 and Schedule 17(1.2) and requires that the Safety Management System includes a Safety Policy, including the operator’s broad aims in relation to the safe operation of the major hazard facility, and that the safety policy must include and express commitment to ongoing improvement of all aspects of the safety management system. A Work Health and Safety Policy is an explicit statement of business commitment to work health and safety. It will include a statement outlining the importance which is placed on work health and safety and how it is to be implemented.

§     Comply with and health and safety regulations and co-operate with your employer in his or her attempts to provide a safe working environment

.Sufficient training and follow ups for employees- The surveyor could recommend a more formal workplace training procedure and records of this kept. Staff should be adequately trained on safety procedures and proper use of machinery, this training should be reviewed regularly. This training should be overseen, reviewed and supervised by senior members of staff. Induction processes for new staff is important and employers must provide adequate supervision at all times, inexperienced employees should be treated with extra care. It is an employer’s duty to employee competent employees, this is important because of an employer’s vicarious liability for the negligence of its employees.

Presentation will be provided by a PowerPoint with bullets explaining the policy and trainees may follow with their pamphlets. The speaker should be the head of HR or the training department explaining the policies on what is expected of the employees. It is important to give out pamphlets from OSHA and other state organization for safe operation while in the plant. Policies will also be given to each trainee to read over and employees shall sign and give back to HR before their first day of work. This will include a policy statement. Emphasis on behavior in and outside of the company shall be presented, for example relationships with vendors, customers and employees. Sexual harassment will also not be tolerated and will be discussed at this time with emphasis on zero tolerance. Lastly, it should be discussed how employees shall ask for help and who to talk to such as supervisors, manager, or any other specialty position within the company. Questions and answers will conclude this segment.

Developing a spirit of cooperation between workers and management to ensure that work is carried out in accordance with devised procedures