RECENT ASSIGNMENT

Instructions to the student:
• Complete ALL questions of the written assessment as per instructed by your trainer/assessor.
• Ensure you read the question carefully.
• If you have difficulty answering the question, you must at least make an attempt to answer it.
Explain WHS information
Q1. What is a Code of Practice?
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Q2. A Health and Safety Representative is elected to represent who?
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Q3. There are five different types of hazards. Explain what ‘Ergonomic hazards’ are and give at least two examples:
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Make WHS information readily accessible
Q4. By law an ‘If you are injured’ poster MUST be displayed. Where would you display this poster?
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Q5. How would you distribute or display minutes of a WHS committee meeting?
(You may use more than one method).
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Q6. How could you make employees aware of their WHS responsibilities?
(You may use more than one method).
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Monitor adherence and compliance with WHS
Q7. It was noted by management that many staff were not using correct lifting methods when lifting and carrying items, such as cartons of food or supplies. Concerned about possible injury, a training program was enacted.
Now everybody has been trained in the correct methods for lifting and carrying. How could you follow up that employees are now following the correct procedure?
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Take action to address non compliance
Q8. After following up on new lifting and carrying procedures you find that there is about 30 % non-compliance with correct methods.
How would you address this issue?
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Monitor the effectiveness of work practices through close contact with operations
Observation is one common way to monitor work practices on a day to day basis.
Q9. Name four work practices that suit observation as a method of monitoring:
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Q10. Apart from observation, what other methods can be used to monitor work practices?
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Q11. How can a WHS Committee be used to get feedback on the effectiveness of WHS work practices?
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Co-ordinate consultation sessions,
Provide opportunity for staff to contribute
Q12. A WHS committee must have at least how many % employees?
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Q13. A WHS committee must meet at least every _____ months.
Q14. Consultation can be formal processes or informal processes.
Name two formal processes:
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Name two informal processes:
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Q15. Name three instances when equipment training would be required:
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Q16. Explain the buddy system of training:
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Action, resolve or refer issues raised
Q17. You are the head chef in a large five star hotel, after looking at the minutes of a WHS committee meeting you see that some staff are concerned about the lack of trolleys to carry cartons of food to the kitchens.
What action would you take and who would be delegated to take that action?
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Risk assessment
Q18. Risk is a measurement of two components. What are those two components?
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Q19. A storeman working in the stores of a large hotel must regularly move boxes of goods onto and off trolleys. Use the table below to measure the risk and explain your reasons for your judgement:
Very Likely Likely Unlikely Highly Unlikely
Fatality HIGH
HIGH HIGH MEDIUM
Major Injury HIGH
HIGH MEDIUM MEDIUM
Minor Injury HIGH
MEDIUM MEDIUM LOW
Negligible Injury MEDIUM MEDIUM LOW LOW
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Use data to provide WHS input
Q20. Reports show a 20 % increase in workplace accidents over the past 12 months.
What sort of action would you take in light of this information?
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Written Assessment Record
SITXWHS003 Implement and monitor work health and safety practices
Student name:
Date:
Element 1 Provide information on health, safety and security
Element 2 Monitor safe work practices
Element 3 Coordinate consultative arrangements for the management of health, safety and security issues
Element 4 Implement and monitor procedures for identifying hazards, and assessing and controlling risks
Element 5 Implement and monitor health, safety and security training
Element 6 Maintain WHS records and reports
Has the student satisfactorily completed all areas of this assessment?
Which areas of this assessment has the student NOT completed satisfactorily?
Assessor’s comments:
Assessor’s name and signature: