Introduction to Health and Safety at Work-Samples for Students

Questions: 1.Why should WHS Legislation be Standardised across Australia? 2.Who has responsibility for WHS? Do Trades Workers on site at any campus of Western Sydney have responsibilities for WHS? 3.What are the Key Elements of the Risk Management Process? 4.Why do Workers and Management have a bad attitude to Safety and how can this be addresse. Answers: Module Questions Week 6 Communication skills- Being able to note all important points highlighted by the interviewer, while being able to address all the questions asked by interviewer Academic qualifications- Answering job related or academic questions Work experience- Answering in-depth questions related to the job, potentially Passion/knowledge of industry/drive/commitment/attitude- Elaborating field related answers with examples from the industry or knowledge area (Friend Kohn, 2014) Team work skills- Participating actively in group discussion Critical reasoning and analytical skills/problem solving/lateral thinking/ technical skills- Solving analytical problems, handling potentially the critical turning points in group discussion Emotional intelligence- Showing self-awareness and empathising others, during group discussion 1.WHS laws are crucial for ensuring that all the staffs are safe in the workplace and for any kinds of health hazards, organization would be liable. All the states in Australia have not adopted the harmonised model of WHS laws. Although the WHS laws have gained high potential in regards to ensure Work Health and Safety laws through Australia, but Victoria and Western Australia have not adopted the model yet. After the federal election, Victoria and Western Australia will strategise in implementing the model work health and safety laws. This model in legislative framework would help t identify key hazards and risks associated to every organizational operation (Macdonald et al., 2011). Although there are some difficulties for Western Australia, for this it is important to make amendments similar t existing Occupational Safety and Health Act 1984. 2.The WHS Act 2011 highlights the responsibilities of officers of a PCBU. Therefore, the officer has the responsibility to undertake exercises for fulfilling its health and safety obligations under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011. In addition, supervisors have the responsibilities to supervise all the functions to ensure the adequacy of WHS operations. IN addition, WHS Committee, Workplace Advisory Committees, Workplace Advisory Representatives, Facilities Management Division have also specific responsibilities (Reese, 2015). 3.Yes, trades workers on site at any campus of Western Sydney have responsibilities for complying with the objectives of WHS legislative model in Australia. The key five elements of a risk management process are as follows: Identify the risk Analyze the risk Apply controls for the risk Evaluate the adequacy or effectiveness of the risk Monitor and review the risk 4.There are several reasons, why employees or management have bad attitude towards health and safety operations. Implementing health and safety policies usually enhances the responsibilities of every worker, thereby enhancing their duties in the organization. On the other hand, lack of support and awareness regarding the benefits of implementing health and safety policies in the organization, promote employees negative attitude towards safety. On the other hand, in case of management, implementing safety operations usually enhances the responsibilities of the management significantly. Management becomes liable to monitor the compliance of each employee in the safety framework and any kind of misconduct or non-compliance of employees with the safety objectives (Hughes Ferrett, 2011). Moreover, negative attitude of employees, lack of proper funding or compensations leads to bad attitude of management towards safety.