SITXWHS008 — Establish and maintain a work health and safety system
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What an assessment for SITXWHS008 must cover
143 assessable components: 4 elements (22 performance criteria), 8 performance evidence and 107 knowledge evidence requirements, plus 6 foundation skills. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.
Elements & performance criteria
1 Establish and maintain a framework for health, safety and security.
- 1.1Access and interpret key legislative documents to ensure WHS system complies with regulatory requirements, standards and codes.
- 1.2Design a health, safety and security management system to suit characteristics and needs of the organisation, in consultation with appropriate personnel.
- 1.3Identify and provide adequate financial, human and specialist external resources to address health, safety and security management practices.
- 1.4Develop and clearly articulate health, safety and security policies and procedures in a format readily accessible to all personnel.
- 1.5Define and allocate health, safety and security responsibilities within relevant job descriptions.
- 1.6Consult with key personnel, and develop and implement a plan for health, safety and security training requirements.
- 1.7Establish and monitor a system for keeping health, safety and security records.
- 1.8Establish and maintain systems to ensure communication of health, safety and security information to personnel.
2 Establish and maintain consultative arrangements for the management of health, safety and security.
- 2.1Establish and maintain appropriate consultative processes to suit characteristics and needs of organisation.
- 2.2Plan for and ensure that consultation is conducted at times designated by legislation.
- 2.3Resolve issues raised through consultation.
- 2.4Provide employees with accessible information on the outcomes of consultation.
3 Establish and maintain practices for identifying hazards, and assessing and controlling risks.
- 3.1Develop or access hazard identification and risk assessment templates that incorporate criteria for assessing risks.
- 3.2Plan for and ensure systematic hazard identification at times designated by legislation.
- 3.3Develop procedures for the ongoing identification of types of hazards designated by legislation.
- 3.4Develop procedures for the assessment and control of risks associated with identified hazards.
- 3.5Nominate within procedures the roles and responsibilities of personnel for hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control.
- 3.6Take a lead role in controlling risks, including implementing interim or emergency solutions.
- 3.7Manage the response to any incident or accident, and follow legislative requirements for notifying and cooperating with WHS government regulators.
4 Evaluate organisational health, safety and security system.
- 4.1Assess and maintain ongoing compliance with WHS legislation and regulatory requirements, standards and codes.
- 4.2Consult with personnel to elicit feedback on health, safety and security policies, procedures and practices.
- 4.3Assess effectiveness of health, safety and security management practices and develop, implement, document and communicate improvements and changes to the health, safety and security system.
Performance evidence
- establish and implement a complete work health, safety and security system for one organisation, that covers the following components:
- adequate facilities for the welfare of employees
- appropriate management of incidents or accidents and notification to WHS government regulators
- availability of information, instructions, training and supervision that ensure employees’ health, safety and security
- safe: machinery, equipment and materials; premises; entrances and exits; systems of work; work environment
- evaluate and identify improvements to health, safety and security practices within the above system
- develop comprehensive health, safety and security system documents to support above system
- apply management practices that must be established and maintained for compliance of above system with state or territory WHS legislation.
Knowledge evidence
- structure, characteristics and needs of the organisation that the health, safety and security system must address
- objectives, components and comprehensive details of relevant state or territory WHS legislation:
- actions that must be taken for legal compliance
- employer responsibilities to provide a safe workplace
- requirement to consult, designated times for consultation and acceptable consultation mechanisms
- requirements for the use of WHS representatives and committees, and their roles and responsibilities
- designated times for hazard identification and categories of hazards that must be identified
- acceptable mechanisms for hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control
- requirements for record keeping and acceptable record keeping mechanisms
- requirement to provide information and training
- employee responsibilities to ensure safety of self, other workers and other people in the workplace
- employee responsibility to participate in WHS practices
- objectives, components and comprehensive details of WHS codes of practice and standards developed by industry or regulatory bodies
- ramifications of failure to observe WHS laws and codes of practice
- methods of receiving updated information on WHS laws and codes of practice
- components of health, safety and security management systems
- considerations in the formulation of health, safety and security policies and procedures:
- consultation
- emergencies
- evacuation of staff and customers
- handling chemicals and hazardous substances
- hazard identification and reporting
- incident and accident management and notification to WHS regulatory authorities
- incident and accident reporting by staff
- ongoing monitoring of risk control
- overall organisational approach to health, safety and security
- participation of personnel in health, safety and security management practices
- responsibilities of employees to ensure safety
- risk assessments and reporting
- safe work practices
- secure management of:
- cash
- documents
- equipment
- keys
- people
- consultative processes:
- diary, whiteboard or suggestion box used by staff to report issues of concern
- fact sheets to fully inform personnel about WHS rights and responsibilities
- formal WHS representatives and committees
- formal meetings with agendas, minutes and action plans
- informal meetings with notes
- health, safety and security discussions with employees during the course of each business day
- recording issues in a management diary
- regular staff meetings that involve health, safety and security discussions
- seeking staff suggestions for content of health, safety and security policies and procedures
- special staff meetings or workshops to specifically address health, safety and security issues
- staff handbook containing WHS information
- surveys or questionnaires that invite staff feedback on health, safety and security issues
- time requirements for hazard identification:
- when changes to the workplace are implemented:
- before the premises are used for the first time
- before and during the installation or alteration of any plant
- before changes to work practices are introduced
- when any new information relating to health and safety risks becomes available
- approaches to assessing the effectiveness of health, safety and security management systems:
- monitoring the ongoing effectiveness of risk control methods
- reviewing:
- incidents, accidents or near misses
- health, safety and security reports
- health, safety and security statistics
- methods used by the specific industry sector and organisation to:
- conduct consultation when developing policies and procedures
- communicate health, safety and security policies, procedures and safe working practices
- conduct ongoing health, safety and security consultation
- evaluate the effectiveness of health, safety and security management practices
- sources of assessment criteria for assessing risks:
- developed by external consultancy services
- outlined in Australian standards
- self-determined for the organisation as part of a health, safety and security management system
- suggested by industry associations for use by member businesses
- health, safety and security information:
- consultative arrangements for health, safety and security
- employee roles and responsibilities in health, safety and security management practices
- legal obligations and ramifications of failure to comply
- location of first aid kit and emergency evacuation plan
- health, safety and security training information and updates
- policies:
- overall approach of organisation to health, safety and security
- participation of personnel in health, safety and security management practices
- responsibilities of employees to ensure safety
- procedures
- specific risk control measures relevant to the workplace
- specific regulations and codes of practice
- use of:
- hazard identification reporting documents
- risk assessment template documents
- formats for and inclusions of:
- policies and procedures
- WHS templates for hazard identification and risk assessment
- incident, accidents, or near miss reports
- reports that document the evaluation of systems and required changes
- WHS record keeping systems
- WHS record requirements:
- consultation:
- diaries of meetings
- agendas for and minutes of meetings
- committee members
- consultation decisions and follow up actions
- hazard identification
- incident or accident notifications to WHS regulatory authorities
- incident, accident, and near miss reports and related statistics
- policies and procedures
- risk assessments
- risk control actions
- training plans
- training undertaken.
Foundation skills
- Reading skills: interpret unfamiliar and complex materials describing regulatory requirements for WHS management systems and internal reports providing operational feedback about the effectiveness of practices develop comprehensive yet easily accessible health, safety and security policies, procedures and template documents.
- Writing skills: construct high level reports about the effectiveness of health, safety and security management practices and rationale for any change.
- Oral communication skills: discuss training needs with key supervisory and management personnel interview personnel about incidents, accidents, or near misses.
- Problem-solving skills: allow for a logical evaluation of the characteristics and needs of the organisation in order to design a tailored health, safety and security system take a lead role in controlling risks and implementing interim or emergency solutions manage the response to any incident or accident.
- Teamwork skills: consult with key personnel and incorporate their views to develop an effective health, safety and security system.
- Planning and organising skills: plan for, establish and regularly monitor all components of a health, safety and security management system.
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What does an assessment tool for SITXWHS008 need to cover?
To satisfy the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence, an assessment for SITXWHS008 needs to address all 143 unit components: 4 elements with 22 performance criteria, 8 performance evidence requirements, 107 knowledge evidence requirements, and the foundation skills. A coverage matrix mapping each question and task to these components is what an auditor looks for.
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