...Question 1 Provide an example of a work place and explain what provisions of the WHS Act, regulations and codes of practice would apply. The WHS act is made to provide a balance and nationally consistent framework to secure the health and safety of workers and workplaces. It also protects the health and safety of all other people who can be affected by the work. Example of workplace: The WHS act of Swinburne University in relation to their noise procedure is to promote fair and responsible handling of health information. This includes protecting the privacy of individuals, providing clients with the right access to health information. WHS regulations are made to set out more detailed requirement to support the WHS act. It eliminates the...
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...BSBWHS401A Implement and monitor WHS policies,procedures and programs to meet legislative requirements Assessment Task 2: Work Health and Safety Project Part A: Develop handouts Handout 1: Legislation Explain the purpose of Work Health and Safety legislation, including the function of a WHS Act, WHSregulation and WHS Code of Practice: Purpose of WHS legislation Awareness and highlighting the issues of safety and health of employees. And Workplace The risk reduction Efficiency and effectiveness Provides advice and counseling. Co-operation and troubleshooting. By mutual encouragement Including giving advice on various aspects, whether it's providing advice in the information, education, training, and can effectively apply the appropriate enforcement...
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...Question 1 a) What legal obligations do you have to ensure the health and safety of yourself and others at work? Answer: Under work health and safety legislation I have to make ensure of safe premises, safe machinery and materials, safe systems of work, information, instruction, training and supervision and also a suitable working environment and facilities for me as well as others at work.This means I have the responsibility of complying what regulations requires me to or adopt and follow policy which would not breech the act by selecting appropriate action with reasonable precautions. b) What are the consequences of breaching your duty-of-care obligations? Answer: Duty of care refers to the responsibility of each person to do everything within their power to ensure a safe and healthy environment at workplace. Disappointment to follow industry code of practice can be used as evidence in proceeding for an office under the act which led to heavy financial penalties or even imprisonment depending on the breaches under the law. c) What legal obligations does your employer have? Answer: Under the act, employers are accountable for the workplace heath, safety and welfare of those who work under their direction or guidance. This means company should organize an environment to cater employee’s welfare. This includes having policies and procedures, compliance with all polices and procedures and provides safe work system. Question 2 a) Discuss the purpose and scope of...
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...Development of WHS Management Plans COP | Code of Practice | D&C | Design and Construction | MSDS | Material Safety Data Sheet | NUL | National Uniform Legislation | NTG | Northern Territory Government | PC | Principal Contractor | PCBU | Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking | PPE | Personal Protective Equipment | SWMS | Safe Work Method Statements | WHS | Work Health and Safety | Practice and code PCBU | A Person Conducts a Business or Undertaking whether:- Alone or with others- Is conducted for profit or gainIt includes partnership or an incorporated association.Note: Employer is captured under the definition of PCBU(Refer to Subdivision 2, Section 5 of the WHS Act 2011). | PC | A PCBU that commissions a construction project is, thePrincipal Contractor (PC) for the project.If the person engages another PCBU as PC for theconstruction project and authorises the person to havemanagement or control to the workplace and to dischargethe duties of a PC, the person so engaged is the PC forthe project.Note: Construction projects can only one PC at anyspecific time.(Refer to Reg 293 of the WHS (NUL) regulations). | A Work Health and Safety (WHS) Legislation was developed as a result of acomprehensive national review into work health and safety laws across Australia, whichinvolved substantial public consultation. This initiative provided a framework to protectthe health, safety and welfare of all workers at work and of all other people who might beaffected by the work...
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...An Academic Report into Industrial Law and Business Occupational Health and Safety Work Health and Safety Act 2011 QLD No. 18 Model Work Health and Safety Act TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 Introduction 3 2.0 History and Purpose of OH&S Legislation 4 3.0 Scope of WHS Act 5 4.0 Key Provisions in a Business Context 6 5.0 Primary Duty of Care 7 6.0 Application of OHS 9 7.0 Regulation Change, a Harmonious Approach? 11 8.0 References 13 8.0 Resources 13 1.0 Introduction According to recently published data uncovered within the ABS WRIS (Australian Bureau of Statistics, Work-Related Injuries Survey published 2011), in 2009 it was estimated that 640,700 Australian workers experienced a work-related incident. While a total of 337 people died in Australia from work-related traumatic injury (safeworkaustralia.gov.au). Economic losses from work-related disease, injuries and deaths impose a heavy burden on the Australian economy, with estimated costs totalling in excess of $60.6 billion per annum. Figure 1: Total work-related injury and illness cost for 2009 (www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au) It is within these alarming figures we derive the impetus to further examine current Workplace Heath and Safety regulations and the associated Industrial legislation on both State and Federal levels. This report will predominately focus on the newly established Queensland Work Health and Safety Act 2011 in conjunction with the...
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...MANAGING RISKS IN CONSTRUCTION WORK Draft Code of Practice Table of Contents FOREWORD 4 SCOPE AND APPLICATION 4 1. INTRODUCTION 5 1.1 What is construction work? 5 1.2 Who has duties relating to construction work? 7 1.3 What is involved in managing risks relating to construction work? 10 2. MANAGING RISKS WITH CONSTRUCTION WORK 12 2.1 Identify the hazards 12 2.2 Assess the risks 12 2.3 Control the risks 13 2.4 Review control measures 14 3. SAFE WORK METHOD STATEMENTS 16 3.1 What is a safe work method statement? 16 3.2 Preparing a safe work method statement 17 3.3 Implementing a safe work method statement 18 3.4 Reviewing a safe work method statement 19 4. WHS MANAGEMENT PLANS 21 4.1 What is a WHS management plan? 21 4.2 Preparing a WHS management plan 21 4.3 Implementing the WHS management plan 21 4.4 Reviewing and revising a WHS management plan 22 5. LICENCES 23 5.1 High risk work 23 5.2 Other licences 23 6. INFORMATION, TRAINING, INSTRUCTION AND SUPERVISION 25 6.1 General construction induction training 25 6.2 Workplace specific training 26 6.3 Other training 26 6.4 Supervision 27 7. FACILITIES AND THE WORK ENVIRONMENT 28 7.1 Facilities at a construction workplace 28 7.2 The work environment 29 7.3 Emergency plan 31 8. CONTROLLING RISKS IN CONSTRUCTION WORK 32 8.1 Falls and falling objects 32 8.2 Traffic management 37 8.3 Essential services 38 8.4 Hazardous manual tasks 39 8.5 Hazardous chemicals...
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...organization, their expectations and responsibilities. The management train new hires until they fully understand their job’s duties and responsibilities. 2. Explain what equal employment opportunity is. Provide an example of an EEO policy? Equal employment opportunity EEO is recognized as an employment practice in which employers never engage within employment activities that are prohibited by law. It is considered illegal activities if employers discriminate against an applicant or employee by reason of race, color, age, sex, caste, religion, national origin or physically challenged. EEO legislation copes with three key areas of practical concern such as discrimination, harassment and affirmative action Example: ‘Harassment’ is recognized as a form of discrimination. Harassment contains unwelcome, humiliating, unsolicited, disgusting, abusive, criticism or threatening behavior intended for an individual or group of people due to some real or apparent characteristic like a person’s ethnicity, sexuality, religions or disability within situations that a person harassed would be offended, mortified or demoralized. Any person like employee or employer found engaging in discriminatory demeanor or harassment would be subject to disciplinary action such as termination. 3. Explain why WHS responsibilities must be included in job descriptions? The explanation, implementation and delivery of a work health and safety (WHS) responsibilities is an essential...
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...side, along with their daughter to manage the bar and the four kitchen hands and chefs, also family members, this is a tightly run family business. The eight causal waitresses were mainly high school students and only two over 18 year olds to manage the bar. The waitresses’ duties included customer service, setting tables, dishes, phone orders for takeaway, dining in orders, serving drinks and food, checking on and clearing tables. The business is singularly run. The restaurant prides itself on serving authentic Cantonese cuisine within their relaxed, comfortable dining environment. The restaurant could hold around 60 guests with the option of an over flow room, if not having been hired out for a function, could also hold another 50 guests. Open for dinner six nights a week, and Sunday lunch. The restaurants environment is set as fun for all the family while the working environment could get to be more stressful than necessary. Lengths of shifts could range from two-seven hours depending on how busy the night got. Although shifts barely went longer than five hours, breaks for staff were something that was not managed well. Waitresses complained that the owner did not respect them or take responsibility if she was the one to order something incorrectly she would blame the staff member and not apologized later when she realised she was in the wrong. To place and pick up orders meant walking through the kitchen to place the paper order along the order line and picking up the...
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...SCORE YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN ACCURATELY The volatility in cotton prices over the last three years should have taught everyone involved in cotton, textiles, and a very important lesson: namely, that understanding, managing, and scoring the supply chain accurately is critical to the survival and profitability of every business. Far too often, sourcing decisions have been made based on only one dimension – nominal price, or “first cost”. Price becomes meaningless if delivery is not made. A common refrain in 2011 was that the brand or retailer couldn’t get delivery of the garment because the contractor couldn’t get the fabric because the weaver or knitter did not get the yarn from the spinner who did not get the cotton from his supplier. In many cases, those who operated in the one-dimensional “price” world got stung very badly. There should be multiple factors involved in reaching sourcing decisions, and these factors are interactive. While sourcing decisions will be different for each region, each product, and each company, there are some common rules which should be followed. Sourcing executives should make informed decisions after carefully considering all the factors, the component parameters of those factors, and the way they interact with each other. This article offers a “Sourcing Scoreboard” for making informed decisions about scoring the supply chain accurately. This model is built for the sourcing decisions a U.S. brand or retailer would make for the supply...
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...ASSESSMENT: BSBWHS401A - Implement and monitor WHS policies, procedures and programs to meet legislative requirements ------------------------------------------------- SECTION 1: PROVIDE INFORMATION TO THE WORK TEAM ABOUT WHS POLICIES AND PROCEDURES. ------------------------------------------------- Information relating to these activities can be found in section 1 part 1 – Learning support materials. Assessment 1 Activity 1: Accurately explain to the work team relevant provisions of WHS Acts, regulations and codes of practice. 1. The impact of a workplace injury is wide reaching. Explain. Yes. According to WHS acts there are four types of hazards, accident and disease (physical and physiological), and low work life quality and stress (socio-psychological). And, for all the listed hazards the impact are wide reaching to the work life of the employee and personal life. The impacts will be for the physical and physiological: high compensation costs, medical claims, lost productivity time and poor productivity affecting mostly the working environment, and for the socio-psychological: inefficiency/ineffectiveness, high work dissatisfaction and low job involvement, affecting personal working environment and personal life, in this cases of hazards the consequences can deal with depression. 2. How is the integrity (validity) of information ensured? The integrity of the information is ensured based on the legislation of health and safety under the PCBU (person conducting...
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...BSB40812CertificateIVinFrontlineManagement AssessmentTask1-Assignment Question1: Read the case study, then complete the task that follows. Case study Louise is employed by a community service organization in an area where a significant proportion of the local populations are Sudanese refugees. The organization provides support to local residents in finding work and accessing community groups, along with information about sport and recreational activities. At a team meeting, many of the case workers agree that their clients are not familiar with local facilities and amenities, including parks and sport facilities. Person to be briefed | When to brief them | Communicationmethod for brief | Information to beincluded in brief | Finance department | 5months before | Provide time, subject for presentation, place | When the money is needed by?Why the money is needed?How much money is needed?(printing cost, refreshment, venue hire) | Venue hires | 3months before | Send e-mail. Talk to on the phone, talk to them in person | Provide duration ,purpose of hire and equipment for presentation | Local newspaper | 2months before | Send e-mail. Talk to on the phone, talk to them in person | Provide time, subject for presentation, place | Promotional activities | 10weeks before | e-mail, phone and talk to them in person | Provide detail about what you promote for people, time | Print | 7weeks before | e-mail, phone and talk to them in person | Cost, due date...
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...BSBRES401A analyse and present research information p85 q5 Employee Job Satisfaction for flexible working Please take a few minutes to tell us about your job and how the organization assists you | Strongly Disagree | Somewhat Disagree | Neither Agree nor Disagree | Somewhat Agree | Strongly Agree | I feel encouraged to come up with new and better ways of doing things. | | | | | | New work ways gives me a feeling of personal accomplishment. | | | | | | I have the tools and resources to do my job well. | | | | | | On my job, I have clearly defined quality goals. | | | | | | The Company does an excellent job of keeping employees informed about matters affecting us. | | | | | | When a customer is dissatisfied, I can usually correct the problem to their satisfaction. | | | | | | I understand why it is so important for (Company name) to value diversity (to recognize and respect the value of differences in race, gender, age, etc.) | | | | | | My job makes good use of my skills and abilities. | | | | | | My supervisor’s manager visibly demonstrates a commitment to quality...
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...Table of Contents Introduction 2 Background of Business 2 Preliminary project scope 2 Target Market 3 Resource Required 4 Human Resources 4 Financial Resources 4 Physical Resources 4 External Market Research 4 Data Resource 4 Market Research Method 5 Exploratory Research 5 Descriptive Research 5 Casual Research 5 Types of Data Required 5 Primary Research Data 5 Secondary Research Data 5 Formal and Informal Research 6 Government Statistics 6 Trade and Business Association 6 Quantitative Research Data 6 Relevant Legislation 7 Introduction In this report, it will be discussed and reported about garden supply and nursery business, café business, and current development, also future development of the business. Marketing research as a first step is suggested to establish what the problem is, which it will be broken down briefly below. Background of Business David and his wife, Alison, have been in the garden supply and nursery business for the last 13 years. The business has prospered over the years. In the last 5 years, a small café has been opened inside the nursery, where about 3 years ago, the café operations was extended, includes trading hours extension, adding new menu, and extra tables and chairs, as well take-away food and sit-in dining are offered. Preliminary project scope Project name : Marketing research for garden and nursery business Project client/owner : David/Alison Project sponsor : David/Alison Project manager...
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...Saquoia Cox Professor Currie ACC647Z2 3 October 2015 Legal and Ethical Issues Business Owners Face Legal and ethical issues play a big part in the operation of a business for many owners. Business owners have to take into account many issues such as legal, regulations, safety, liability and brand of the company. Business owners must know their legal responsibilities and code of ethics, because they have to adhere to both when running a business. Many business owners face these issue everyday with changing regulations and laws, making sure that their reporting is ethical and up to standards. "Navigating all of the legislative and regulatory changes that occur throughout the course of the year can be challenging, taking business owners away from other important aspects of running their businesses," said Martin Mucci, Paychex president and CEO. Business owners have to follow state and federal labor laws which can be very taxing on business owners. Business owners have to monitor their tax reforms, because with the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014 the processing of taxes will affect the way that business owners have budgeted for their businesses. Business owners are also affected by new health reforms which state that “employers must be prepared to meet new IRS mandates to file annual information returns with the IRS and provide statements to their full-time employees about the health insurance coverage the employer offers” (Brooks, 2015) Business owners have to know...
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...state of equilibrium. The world described by the novel is pre-moral, and the drives of the main characters seem to reach beyond their death and strive for transcendence. (Early Victorian Novelists, Lord David Cecil, 1934) A restless force, represented by C and H, which continually pushes against a framework of religion, propriety, social expectations. The novel represents a clash of social classes and economic interests where the respectable farming class (the Earnshaws) is progressively destroyed by the newly wealthy capitalists (H) and the traditional gentry (the Lintons). Lockwood and Nelly represent, from different class perspectives, the normal views of society (family relationships, class characteristics, social etiquette, duty, responsibility) whereas C symbolises vitality, the spirit...
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