Section A: Skills Activity

Objective: To provide you with an opportunity to show you have the required skills for this unit.

This activity will enable you to demonstrate the following skills:

Reading

o interpret unfamiliar and complex materials describing regulatory requirements for WHS management and organisational policies and procedures

Writing

o write high level reports and complete accurate records for regulatory compliance

Oral communication

• conduct health, safety and security consultation activities
• explain health, safety and security procedures and information on safe work practices.

Problem solving

o incorporate the views of other people consulted in the workplace

Teamwork

o monitor staff members' daily compliance with health, safety and security management practices.

Answer the activity in as much detail as possible, considering your organisational requirements.

In a workplace situation, carry out (or simulate carrying out) the following skills:

1. Over the course of one month, identify, read and interpret three unfamiliar and complex materials describing regulatory requirements and organisational policies and procedures for WHS management.

Write a one-two page report outlining the materials you have consulted and three points of information you gained from each.

2. Over the course of one month, analyse and write one report about the effectiveness of WHS management practices, making recommendations for change. You do not have to address all aspects of work health and saftey management. Rather, you should address three specific aspects. Be sure to consult your colleagues during this task, soliciting their observations, thoughts and ideas.

Specifically, you may address:

Hazard report practices

Incident report practices

Risk assessment practices

Procedures for carrying out different types of work

Procedures for carrying out workplace inspections

Emergency evacuation report practices

Health monitoring report practices

Equipment maintenance report practices

Work health and saftey induction and training practices

Practices for completing safety data sheets

Practices for handling chemicals.

The report should be between two and three pages long. It should include three observations or points of information about current WHS management practices and three recommendations for the future.

3. Over the course of one month, monitor staff members' daily compliance with WHS management practices and identify one employee who is failing to comply with work health and safety procedures and practices. Organise a half hour one-to-one meeting with them to discuss this issue.

Specifically, you should:

Discuss the reasons for the employee's failure to comply with WHS practices

Remind the employee of the importance of adhering to WHS practices

Remind the employee of the WHS practices they need to follow

Discipline the employee appropriately (remember, these actions should be corrective rather than punitive)

Develop a compliance plan with the employee.

Throughout the discussion, make sure that you maintain a professional and helpful tone that is firm as well as fair. Your primary goal should be to encourage the employee to act correctly and adhere to all WHS practices, rather than embarrass or belittle them.