Introduction

A Work Health and Safety Management Plan can assist principal contractors to manage their workplace health and safety obligations according to the WHS Act 2011. The principal contractor for a construction project must prepare a written Work Health and Safety Management Plan for the workplace before work on the project commences.

The plan includes:

• the arrangements for the collection and any assessment, monitoring and review of safe work method statements at the workplace.

• The plan must be written so it is easy to understand, signed and dated by the principal contractor. It must be available for the length of the project. If a notifiable incident occurs in connection with the construction project, the person must keep the WHS management plan for at least two years after the incident occurs.

The principal contractor for a construction project must review and, as necessary, revise the WHS management plan if there are changes in how risks will be managed. The principal contractors are also responsible to ensure that the relevant people are informed of the revisions.

Implementation

• Management review including internal and external auditing

Consultation and implementation partners require the sharing of relevant information with Business or store managers on matters which may affect health, safety and welfare with workers. It also requires that they are given the opportunity to express their views and opinions so that these can be taken into account when decisions about the health, safety and welfare of persons at work are being made. Communication is the sharing of information, policies, procedures, etc. and should be a two-way process. For this reason, it is important to establish some mechanisms which suit the business, to allow for regular communication on work health and safety.

Performance indicators are derived as outlined by the WHS Planning Guidelines to monitor the achievement of WHS objectives and targets. Also, additional performance indicators may be established for the Australian Hardware to measure WHS performance.

Australian Hardware WHS Policy and Procedures

Purpose

The purpose of this policy is to ensure that work is carried out safety in accordance with Australian Hardware’s ethical and legal obligations to provide and maintain a safe work place. Australian Hardware recognizes its responsibility to provide a healthy and safe working environment for employees, contractors, clients and visitors. Australian hardware is committed to the continued wellbeing of its employees and to ensuring that all employees are safe from injury and health risk while undertaking work duties, including home-bases work.

Scope

Goals

• Aims to ensure all work activities are done safely.

Responsibilities

Management (the supervisor and / or manager) is responsible for providing and maintaining:

• Any information, instruction, training and supervision needed to make sure that all workers are safe from injury and risks to their health.

• Managers and Supervisors must take reasonable care that everyone in their area of responsibility is fulfilling their duty of care

• ensuring their own personal health and safety, and that of others in the workplace

• complying with any reasonable directions (such as safe work procedures, wearing personal protective equipment) given by management for health and safety

Legislature

Below are List of Legislature applied in the policy.

• Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (WHS Act)

Signed Manager: .......................................................................

Signed Worker: ......................................................................

Role Play

• Wollongong Work group health and safety Representation (HSR)

• Wollongong Store manager (WSM)

• Proper Communication: no logical way of communication is clear in the current system, notice board are not placed in the correct places and are not updated.

• Safe storage of Flammables like Petrol and poisons; paints are not clear and not documented.

HSR: Store does not have a dedicated area for the storage of the Flammables, poisons and paints. Some to the petrol and turpentine are stored in two different location. Even different poisons and paints are stored in several locations. All these items should be stored in a dedicated area and should be stored together.

WC: What changes should be done under safety directions for walking and traffic?

SM: Workers have some concerns about the WHS risk management policy and process. The number od incidents are increased in last one year and we are taking the required actions however the incidents are keep repeating. Which have raised some serious concerned among workers.

WC: with the help of HSR, we have identified some area of issues and will explore more during the planning and implementation of new WHS policy. Risk management analysis will be done later in the implementation phase.

SM: I personally, inform all the workers about the incident involve in the group.

WC: That not enough, so we have identified some issue in the store today and will discuss these issues later.

Risk management Policy

• Assurance is provided as to the effectiveness of the risk management system and risk controls

• Any changes to the company’s risk profile are monitored and disclosed.

• assets

• reputation

Accountabilities

• Reviewing the risk profile of the company and approving the policies and systems implemented for the ongoing identification and management of risks.

• Reviewing the company’s capacity to absorb and improve the safety scores.

• Appointing the system owners, through whom appropriate systems and procedures for the identification, reporting and management of risks are developed, implemented, maintained and reviewed.

• Provision of reports to the board on performance in relation to identification, assessment and management of risks, including environmental risk.

Risk Management

• Regular training and monitoring the safety regulation.

• Re organizing the products and services according to the safety guidelines.

• Demonstrating, through a program of assurance and review, the effectiveness of, and compliance against, those systems used to identify and manage risk

• Providing an effective system for assurance, at six monthly intervals, from employees with specific delegated responsibilities under this policy.

All managers, supervisors and employees are responsible for:

• Taking all reasonable and practicable steps to perform their responsibilities delegated under this policy and the related systems and procedures.

Reporting

The CFO provides a report to the board indicating:

• The effectiveness of the company’s risk management and internal control systems in relation to business risks

VERSION HISTORY

• [Provide information on how the development and distribution of the Risk Management Plan up to the final point of approval was controlled and tracked. Use the table below to provide the version number, the author implementing the version, the date of the version, the name of the person approving the version, the date that particular version was approved, and a brief description of the reason for creating the revised version.]

Risk Management Analysis

Report Scope

Work Breakdown Structure By Feature

Incident Analysis

1. FAI on 1 July 2012 at Wollongong: Staff member need to treat on the first place and should be sent to hospital. As the staff member did not come for work for 10 days. Training is also required, which is already done.

2. MTI 1 july 2012 at Sydney: First action should be hospitalization of the staff and incident communication and required training is recommended.

7. LTI 17 Aug 2012 at Port Arthur: Staff member need to treat on the first place and should be sent to hospital. As the staff member did not come for work for 5 days. Training is also required, No action is taken in this incident, which rises the red flag.

8. LTIFR 9 Sep 2012 at Gold Coast: Staff member need to treat on the first place and should be sent to hospital. As the staff member did not come for work for 2 days. Training is also required, No action is taken in this incident, which rises the red flag.

13. LTI 3 Oct 2012 at Adelaide: Staff member need treatment on the first place and should be sent to hospital. Required training is done.

14. LTI 18 oct 2012 at Sydney: Faulty forklift should be fixed as priority. Recommended medical treatment and counselling is required. No action is taken in this incident, which rises the red flag.

19. LTI 17 Nov 2012 at Byron Bay: Staff member need treatment on the first place and should be sent to hospital. As the staff member did not come for work for 1 days. Training is also required, No action is taken in this incident, which rises the red flag.

20. NMI 8 Dec 2012 at Port Macquarie: More safety training is required with regular monitoring. No action is taken in this incident, which rises the red flag.

25. FAI 1 Apr 2013 at Freemantle: Staff member need treatment on the first place and should be sent to hospital. Training is also required.

26. LTI 2 Apr 2013 at Bundaberg: Staff member need treatment on the first place and should be sent to hospital. As the staff member did not come for work for 2 days. Training is also required.

Result of Analysis and Recommendation

• NMI and LTI incidents can be avoided by proper training and carefully working with the dangerous goods. Most of the Sore back injuries can be avoided by using proper use of lifting techniques.

• MTI related to mental and physical health could be avoided my regular medical checkup and counselling.

3. Reoccurring incidents should be taken seriously and should be fixed.

A Portfolio of Evidence

The report generated in yr 2012-13 shows the number of evidences at with proper implementation plan and training sessions, company can achieve the required LTIFR scores. So below is the implementation plan and training sessions plan.

Training Session Plan

Material: Printer handouts and PPT presentation

Location: Store training room

Training Implementation Plan