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Participate in workplace safety procedures

Content

• Section 1: Identify hazards and assess risk
  • Health and safety at work
  • Workplace hazards and risks
  • Causes of injury
  • A risk management approach
  • Types of hazards
  • Reporting a hazard
  • Risk assessment
  • Risk management strategy
  • Control measures
  • Self check
  • Summary
  • Bibliography
• Section 2: Follow procedures and strategies for risk control
  • Legislative requirements
  • Organisational policy
  • Workplace induction
  • Reporting mechanisms
  • Hazard reporting procedures
  • Notifiable incidents
  • Less serious incidents
  • Managing aggression
  • Reporting incidents
  • Participating in WHS procedures
  • Emergency plans
  • Self check
  • Summary
  • Bibliography
• Section 3: Contribute to OHS in the workplace
  • A culture of safety
  • Continuous improvement
  • Employees' WHS rights
  • Employer and employee responsibilities
  • Supporting WHS processes
  • Consultation
  • Formal consultative processes
  • Participative arrangements
  • Supporting risk control procedures
  • Assist with health and safety audits
  • Providing feedback
  • Self check
  • Summary
  • Bibliography

Introduction

In the community and disabilities services industry it is important that everyone, including workers, volunteers and clients, are considered in workplace health and safety (WHS) matters. As a worker in a community service setting, you share responsibility with other staff, and management, to make sure that correct procedures for reporting and recording are followed at all times.

This section discusses the knowledge and skills needed to follow risk control procedures and strategies, including:

• reporting hazards
• assessing and controlling risks
• following workplace procedures for dealing with hazards and incidents.

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