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BSBWHS521 – Ensure a safe workplace for a work area (Release 1)

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Date

Summary of modifications

Version

30 September 2020

Version 1 final produced following assessment validation.

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Instructions:

Discuss and accomplish this section with your assessor before commencing then sign the confirmation at the end of this Agreement.

Please tick at least one of the following for each section:

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Delivery Method

Classroom

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Small Group

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One-on-One

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Online

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Other (please describe)

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Assessment Pathway (for Practical Assessment)

Learner’s Organisation (Pre-assessment meeting conducted)

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Simulated Workplace Environment (Contextualised by RTO)

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Assessment Conditions

Assessment must comply with WHS laws, legal responsibilities and duty of care required for this unit. It must be conducted in a safe environment where evidence gathered demonstrates consistent performance of typical activities undertaken by individuals carrying out WHS duties in the workplace, and must include access to:

organisational WHS policies and procedures required to demonstrate the performance evidence

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WHS laws required to demonstrate the performance evidence

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case studies and, where possible, real situations

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opportunities for interaction with others.

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Assessors of this unit must satisfy the assessor requirements in applicable vocational education and training legislation, frameworks and/or standards.

I confirm that the activities and assessment completed as part of this unit are my own work, and comply with all relevant copyright and plagiarism rules.

I understand that if there is any doubt of the authenticity of any piece of my assessment, I can be orally examined, and the signatory of evidence records may be contacted.

Learner’s name

     

Learner’s signature

     

Date

     

Assessor’s name

     

Assessor’s signature

     

Date

     

Question 1

Answer the following questions about the hierarchy of control using your own words.

Briefly explain the primary aim of controlling risks.

     

Briefly explain how the level of health and safety protection provided by control measures changes as you move down the hierarchy of control.

     

Briefly explain how the reliability of control measures changes moving down the hierarchy of control.

     

List the hierarchy of controls in order of priority (from the most preferred to the least preferred).

Note: Control measures under the same level of priority do not have to follow any particular order.

In your own words, briefly explain how each control measure eliminates or minimises hazards and its associated risks

Hierarchy of Controls

How Control Measure Eliminates or Minimises Hazards and its Associated Risks

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

The Practical Assessment is a set of tasks that must be completed in a workplace, or in an environment with conditions similar to that of a real workplace.

To be assessed for this unit of competency, you must demonstrate your skills and knowledge to establish, maintain and evaluate an organisation’s work health and safety (WHS) policies, procedures and programs in a work area to ensure a safe workplace, according to WHS legislative requirements. It takes a systems approach and addresses compliance with relevant legislative requirements.

The Practical Assessments in this workbook include:

Workplace Project Assessment

A series of written practical tests assessing the learner’s practical knowledge and skills underpinning of the unit of competency. This includes the learner completing workplace documents or similar as evidence of competent performance.

Workplace Practical Observation

A set of assessment tasks where the learner must demonstrate practical skills relevant to the unit of competency. These skills are to be demonstrated while being observed by the assessor.

IMPORTANT!

All signatures/initials in your submissions, including yours, must be handwritten and dated. Submissions with signatures/initials must be scanned.

The supervisor/observer who completes and signs your evidence submissions must provide their real name, contact number, and email address for your assessor’s reference.

Should you encounter issue or concerns regarding your assessment, contact your assessor.

Some tasks in this Practical Assessment require you to refer to work health and safety (WHS) laws, which include legislations, regulations, and codes of practice applicable to your state/territory.

For your assessor’s reference, indicate below which state/territory your workplace/organisation is based or located in by ticking the box that corresponds to your answer.

When completing these tasks, refer to the WHS laws applicable to the state/territory you ticked below.

The state/territory where your workplace/organisation is based or located in.

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Australian Capital Territory

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South Australia

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New South Wales

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Tasmania

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Northern Territory

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Victoria

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Queensland

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Western Australia

This workplace project assessment requires you to develop at least one work health and safety management system in your specific work area and implement it on at least one occasion to comply with requirements of your organisation/workplace and WHS laws applicable to your state/territory.

This assessment is divided into thirteen tasks:

Task 1: WHS Requirements

Task 2: WHS Management Plan

Task 3: Approve Resource Required to Implement WHSMP

Task 4: Hazard Identification Form and Risk Register

Task 5: Implement Risk Control Measures

Task 6: Presentation of Resolution of Risk Management

Task 7: Include Hazard Identification in Organisational Change

Task 8: WHS Induction Pack

Task 9: Deliver WHS Induction to Required Personnel

Task 10: Training Needs Analysis

Task 11: Provide WHS Training to Required Personnel

Task 12: WHS Evaluation Report

Task 13: Modify WHS Management Plan

This project requires you to complete the assessment tasks in a real workplace, or in an environment with conditions similar to that of a workplace.

Each task comes with a set of instructions. You are to follow and perform these instructions while being observed by the assessor and/or submit any required documentation.

Before starting this assessment, your assessor will discuss with you these tasks including instructions and guidance for satisfactorily completing them.

You are required to:

Complete the tasks within the time allowed, as scheduled in-class roll.

Adapt, adopt and communicate WHS policies that define the organisation’s commitment to completing with WHS laws

Develop at least one WHS Management Plan for your work area

Conduct WHS risk management for at least one risk with existing risk control procedures

Conduct required consultative arrangements in the work area

Ensure that hazard identification is performed during the planning, design, and evaluation stages of at least one organisational change

Develop and provide WHS induction and training programs

Measure and evaluate WHS performance against organisation’s quality systems framework

Ensure that work area complies with WHS legislative framework to achieve WHS legal requirements

Modify WHSMP for areas of improvement

Resources Required for Assessment

Resources you need to access to complete the project assessment are outlined in the Resources Required for Assessment section of this workbook, and in the corresponding Assessor’s Checklist and/or Observation Form of each task.

Discuss each requirement with your assessor before commencing with each task. They will organise the resources required for this assessment.

IMPORTANT: Additional workplace resources may be required upon the contextualisation of this assessment.

Forms and Templates

Generic forms and templates are provided in the project tasks, unless otherwise specified. These can be accessed from the following link:

BSBWHS521 Forms and Templates

If you are currently in a workplace, use similar workplace templates and forms used by your organisation to complete each assessment task. Discuss with your supervisor and your assessor first to ensure that the forms/templates you will use from your organisation cover all criteria required by each assessment task.

Review these forms and templates with your assessor before starting the task.

ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS

This task will require you to identify relevant work health and safety (WHS) requirements required to ensure a safe workplace in your work area.

You will use these requirements to develop a WHS management plan for your work area in Workplace Project Task 2.

Work area refers to a specific site within an organisation/workplace that is distinguished by the nature and type of work being undertaken.

This includes WHS requirements from the following sources:

Organisational policies and procedures

Organisational WHS training programs

WHS laws applicable to your state/territory, which must include:

Legislation

Regulation

Codes of practice applicable to your specific work area

Use your workplace/organisation’s template to complete this task, or use the WHS Requirements template provided at the Bounce Fitness site.

To complete this task, you must:

Locate and gather information that you need to ensure a safe workplace for people in your work area from the sources outlined above.

This will require you to access and research information relevant to WHS, including:

Organisational policies and procedures

Organisational WHS training programs

WHS laws applicable to your state/territory, which must include:

Legislation

Regulation

Codes of practice applicable to your specific work area

Identify the following organisational and legislative WHS requirements in your work health and safety requirements template:

Consultation and participation requirements, which must include:

Identifying duty holders

Identify and approving required resources

Developing and implementing WHS training programs

Risk management requirements, which must include:

Hazard identification

Risk assessment

Risk control using hierarchy of control

Developing and providing WHS training and induction programs

Review Workplace Project Task 1 – Assessor’s Checklist before starting this task. This form outlines the following:

Resources you are required to access to complete the task. Discuss these resources with your assessor prior to starting this task.

All criteria your submission must address to satisfactorily complete this task. Your assessor will also discuss with you the criteria outlined in this form prior to the assessment

Review the template you will use to complete this task. If you are using a template from your workplace/organisation, discuss with your assessor to ensure that the template covers all requirements that apply to this task. Otherwise, use the WHS Requirements template provided at the Bounce Fitness site.

Submit the completed work health and safety requirements to your assessor. Include any organisational documentation used to identify requirements, such as:

WHS policies and procedures

Organisational WHS programs

ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS

This task will require you to develop a WHS management plan for your own work area based on organisational and legislative requirements identified in Workplace Project Task 1.

A WHS management plan is set of plans developed to systematically eliminate the possibility of accidents, illness, injury or fatality in the workplace.

Use your workplace/organisation’s template to complete this task or use the WHS Management Plan (WHSMP) template provided at the Bounce Fitness site.

To complete this task, you must:

Locate and gather information that you need to ensure a safe workplace for people in your work area based on the requirements identified in your Work Health and Safety Requirements from Workplace Project Task 1, this includes:

Organisational and legislative requirements applicable to your work area

Organisation’s quality system framework

Quality system framework is the conceptual basis used by an organisation to structure processes embedded in management systems.

Consult with at least two required personnel to identify requirements for your consultation arrangements in the work area.

Required personnel are duty holders in the work area who will be affected by the WHSMP you will develop.

Develop policy and procedures for your work area on the WHS management plan based on WHS requirements identified in the Work Health and Safety Requirements from Workplace Project Task 1

Your WHSMP must include the following:

Consultation and participation arrangements, which, at a minimum, must include:

Identifying duty holders

Identifying and approving required WHS resources

Developing and implementing WHS training programs

Risk management requirements, which, at a minimum, must include:

Hazard identification

Risk assessment

Selecting risk controls using hierarchy of control

Implementing risk control measures

Reviewing risks

Developing and delivering WHS training programs, which, at a minimum, must include:

Developing and providing a WHS induction program

Developing and providing WHS training programs

Review Workplace Project Task 2 – Assessor’s Checklist before starting this task. This form outlines the following:

Resources you are required to access to complete the task. Discuss these resources with your assessor prior to starting this task.

All criteria your submission must address to satisfactorily complete this task. Your assessor will also discuss with you the criteria outlined in this form prior to the assessment

Review the template you will use to complete this task. If you are using a template from your workplace/organisation, discuss with your assessor to ensure that the template covers all requirements that apply to this task. Otherwise, use the WHS Management Plan template provided at the Bounce Fitness site.

Submit the completed WHS management plan to your assessor. Include any documentation used to identify your organisation’s quality system framework

You must also submit evidence of communication/consultation with at least two required personnel of the organisation on their input about the WHS consultation arrangements for your work area.

Evidence must be at least one of the following:

Email correspondence

Meeting minutes

Video recording of the meeting conducted with the stakeholders

ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS

This task requires you approve financial and human resources required by the WHSMP produced in Workplace Project Task 2

To complete this task, you must secure approval for financial and human resources of your WHSMP submitted for Workplace Project Task 2 following organisational policies and procedures

Review Workplace Project Task 3 – Assessor’s Checklist before starting this task. This form outlines the following:

Resources you are required to access to complete the task. Discuss these resources with your assessor prior to starting this task.

All criteria your submission must address to satisfactorily complete this task. Your assessor will also discuss with you the criteria outlined in this form prior to the assessment

Submit evidence that you secured approval for the following resources identified in the WHSMP from Workplace Project Task 2 following organisational policies and procedures:

Financial resources

Human resources

Evidence must be at least one of the following:

Email correspondence

Meeting minutes

Video recording of the meeting conducted with the stakeholders

Include any supplementary policies and procedures used to approve required resources.

ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS

This task will require you to conduct hazard identification and risk assessment on a risk with existing control measures according to procedures developed in the WHSMP submitted during Workplace Project Task 2

Use your workplace/organisation’s template to complete this task or use the following templates provided at the Bounce Fitness site:

Hazard Identification Form

Risk Register

To complete this task, you must follow procedures outlined in the WHSMP submitted during Workplace Project Task 2 to:

Conduct consultation with required personnel based on consultation arrangements developed for the following:

Hazard identification

Risk Assessment

Identification of risk controls

Required personnel are duty holders that must be consulted as outlined in the consultation arrangements outlined in your WHSMP.

Identify inadequacies in existing risk controls based on hierarchy of control measures

Conduct hazard identification on inadequacies found from existing risk controls

Assess risk/s of hazards identified

Select risk control measures to implement based on hierarchy of control measures

Seek advice from at least one relevant WHS expert on at least two requirements that needs further clarification from your hazard identification, risk assessment or risk control identification processes

WHS experts are individuals or groups who have extensive knowledge and experience in compliance with WHS requirements.

Identify the following information in your Hazard Identification Form:

Hazard identified from risk

Risk associated with the hazard

Person/people affected by the hazard

Existing risk control measures

Initial risk rating

Further action to be taken

You are to leave the ‘Residual risk rating’ section blank. This will be completed in a following task.

Identify the following information in your Risk Register:

Description of risk

Current treatment used to manage risk

Initial risk rating

Revised risk control measure

Resources required to implement risk control measure

You are to leave ‘Actual Date to Implement’, ‘Revised Risk Rating’ and ‘Date of Review’ sections blank. This will be completed in a following task.

Review Workplace Project Task 4 – Assessor’s Checklist before starting this task. This form outlines the following:

Resources you are required to access to complete the task.

All criteria your submission must address to satisfactorily complete this task.

You assessor will discuss these resources with you, and the criteria outlined in this form prior to this assessment.

Review the template you will use to complete this task. If you are using a template from your workplace/organisation, discuss with your assessor to ensure that the template covers all requirements that apply to this task. Otherwise, use the Hazard Identification Form and Risk Register templates provided at the Bounce Fitness site

After the assessment, submit the following to your assessor:

Partially completed hazard identification form

Partially completed risk register

Additionally, you must also submit evidence of your consultation with the following:

Required personnel during each of the following:

Hazard identification

Risk Assessment

Identification of risk control measures

WHS expert to clarify requirements of managing the risks that require further advice

Evidence submitted must be any of the following:

Email correspondence

Meeting minutes

Video recording of meeting conducted with required personnel

Additionally, you must also submit evidence of documentation used as source to identify risks with existing control measures.

ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS

This task requires you to implement risk control measures identified in Workplace Project Task 4.

The risk control measures implemented must reflect information from the Hazard Identification and Risk Register partially completed in Workplace Project Task 4.

To complete this task, you must follow procedures outlined in the WHS management plan developed in Workplace Project Task 2 to:

Provide approved resources required to implement risk control measures identified in Workplace Project Task 3

Implement risk control measures identified in Workplace Project Task 3

Determine revised risk rating after implementation of risk control measures

Select risk control measures to implement based on hierarchy of control measures

Identify the residual risk rating on your Hazard Identification Form

Identify the following information on your Risk Register:

Actual date to implement

Revised risk rating

Date of review

Review Workplace Project Task 5 – Assessor’s Checklist before starting this task. This form outlines the following:

Resources you are required to access to complete the task.

All criteria your submission must address to satisfactorily complete this task.

You assessor will discuss these resources with you, and the criteria outlined in this form prior to this assessment.

Review the template you will use to complete this task. If you are using a template from your workplace/organisation, discuss with your assessor to ensure that the template covers all requirements that apply to this task. Otherwise, use the Hazard Identification Form and Risk Register templates provided at the Bounce Fitness site

After the assessment, submit the following to your assessor:

Completed hazard identification form

Completed risk register

Additionally, you must provide evidence of the following:

Provision of resources required to implement risk control measures

Implementation of each risk control measure outlined in your Risk Register

ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS

Your assessor will observe you as you present information to required personnel about the resolution of risk management of at least one risk in the work area.

Required personnel refer to duty holders within the work area who were consulted and/or participated in managing the resolved risk.

Information provided can be based on the risk management conducted in Workplace Project Task 3 and Workplace Project Task 4 or any other recently concluded risk management conducted in the work area.

You will be assessed on your practical skills to:

Present information about consultation and participation outcomes to at least one relevant personnel according to consultation arrangements outlined in the WHS Management Plan completed in Workplace Project Task 2.

If you are providing information based on a risk management process conducted in your organisation, then you must access documents of consultation and participation used throughout the risk management process and documents that provide the outcomes of the risk management.

Presents information on the resolution of risk management using structure and language suitable for the audience

Review Workplace Project Task 6 – Observation Form before starting this task. This form outlines all the practical skills you need to demonstrate to satisfactorily complete this task. Your assessor will also discuss with you the practical skills outlined in this form prior to the assessment.

IMPORTANT!

If you are providing information on a risk management conducted in your organisation, you must submit copies of documents of consultation with required personnel and results of risk management processes.

ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS

This task will require you to include hazard identification during the planning, design and evaluation stages of at least one organisational change made in your work area.

Organisational change refers to any organisation decisions to revise, amend or improve on currently used equipment, processes, work tasks, systems or operations.

To complete this task, you must include hazard identification during the following stages of at least one organisational change made in your work area:

Planning

Design

Evaluation

Review Workplace Project Task 7 – Assessor’s Checklist before starting this task. This form outlines the following:

Resources you are required to access to complete the task.

All criteria your submission must address to satisfactorily complete this task.

You assessor will discuss these resources with you, and the criteria outlined in this form prior to this assessment.

Submit evidence that hazard identification is implemented during the following stages of at least one workplace change:

Planning

Design

Evaluation

Evidence submitted can include any hazard identification tool or record used in the organisation. This includes:

Hazard checklists

Hazard identification form

Job hazard analysis

Additionally, you must submit documentation of the planning, design and evaluation of the organisational change and any policy and procedures used to complete your hazard identification.

ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS

This task will require you to develop a WHS Induction Pack to deliver to at least one required personnel in your work area.

Information used in the WHS induction pack can be in line with the WHS management plan developed in Workplace Project Task 2 or existing policies and procedures applicable to the work area.

This is to be used to deliver a WHS induction in Workplace Project Task 9.

Use your workplace/organisation’s template to complete this task or use the WHS Induction Pack template provided at the Bounce Fitness site.

To complete this task, you must follow procedures outlined in the WHS Management Plan developed in Workplace Project Task 2 to:

Develop a WHS Induction Pack, which must include the following:

Roles and responsibilities of duty holders in the work area

Requirements for managing hazards and risks in the work area, which must include information for the following:

Hazard identification

Risk assessment

Risk control

Requirements for reporting incidents in the work area

Review Workplace Project Task 8 – Assessor’s Checklist before starting this task. This form outlines the following:

Resources you are required to access to complete the task.

All criteria your submission must address to satisfactorily complete this task.

You assessor will discuss these resources with you, and the criteria outlined in this form prior to this assessment.

IMPORTANT!

If you are developing an induction program based on existing policies and procedures, you must submit documentation of requirements used to develop an WHS induction pack.

ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS

Your assessor will observe you as you deliver a WHS induction to at least one required personnel in your work area based on the WHS Induction Pack submitted for Workplace Project Task 8.

Required personnel refer to workers of the organisation who must be familiarised or refamiliarised with the processes and systems of the organisation’s WHS systems.

You will be assessed on your practical skills to:

Deliver a WHS induction to required personnel in a work area based on the WHS Induction Pack submitted for Workplace Project Task 8.

Provide information about WHS policies and procedures to required personnel

Present and seek information from others during the induction using structure and language that suits your audience.

Review Workplace Project Task 9 – Observation Form before starting this task. This form outlines all the practical skills you need to demonstrate to satisfactorily complete this task. Your assessor will also discuss with you the practical skills outlined in this form prior to the assessment.

ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS

This task will require you to identify and document the WHS training requirements to develop a training program for at least one required personnel.

Required personnel refer individuals working in the organisation who require additional training to fulfil their WHS obligations or advance their personal development.

Use your workplace/organisation’s template to complete this task, or use the Training Needs Analysis template provided at the Bounce Fitness site.

To complete this task, you must:

Identify required training needs based on the procedures outlined in the Work Health and Management Plan (WHSMP) completed during Workplace Project Task 2

Consult at least one required personnel to determine the following:

Required WHS training need

Training need refers to the skills, information or capabilities that an individual or group requires to effectively carry out their WHS obligations.

Determining the training required to address each training need

Complete a training need analysis based on consultation with required personnel

Review Workplace Project Task 10 – Assessor’s Checklist before starting this task. This form outlines the following:

Resources you are required to access to complete the task. Discuss these resources with your assessor prior to starting this task

All criteria your submission must address to satisfactorily complete this task. You assessor will also discuss with you the criteria outlined in this form prior to the assessment

Your assessor will discuss these resources with you, and the criteria outlined in this form prior to this assessment.

Submit the completed training needs analysis to your assessor.

You must also submit evidence of your consultation with required personnel.

Evidence must be at least one of the following:

Email correspondence

Meeting minutes

Video recording of communication/discussion with the stakeholder

You may use your organisation’s templates for documenting your evidence or the generic templates provided along with this workbook.

ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS

This task will require you to provide WHS training to at least one required personnel in your work area.

Required personnel refer to individuals working in the organisation who require additional training to fulfil their WHS obligations or advance their personal development.

Training provided may be in line with the Training Needs Analysis completed during Workplace Project Task 11 or any opportunity to provide WHS training to personnel required in your work area.

To complete this task, you must:

Access and review the following:

WHS Management Plan submitted by the learner in Workplace Project Task 2.

If you are providing training based on actual training requirements in your work area, review relevant organisational policies and procedures.

Training Needs Analysis completed in Workplace Project Task 10

If you are providing training based on actual training requirements in your work area, then you must access the necessary documentation that identifies the training needs or requirements of the required personnel.

Provide the appropriate training to address training needs of required personnel based on the Training Needs Analysis completed during Workplace Project Task 10.

Training provided must comply with requirements relevant to providing WHS training outlined in the WHS Management Plan submitted during Workplace Project Task 2

If you are providing training based on actual training requirements in your work area, comply with requirements outlined in your policies and procedures.

Review Workplace Project Task 11 – Assessor’s Checklist before starting this task. This form outlines the following:

Resources you are required to access to complete the task. Discuss these resources with your assessor prior to starting this task

All criteria your submission must address to satisfactorily complete this task. You assessor will also discuss with you the criteria outlined in this form prior to the assessment

Your assessor will discuss these resources with you, and the criteria outlined in this form prior to this assessment.

Submit evidence that you have provided the appropriate WHS training to required personnel.

Evidence can include the following:

Certificate of completion

Email of confirmation

Qualification transcript

IMPORTANT!

If you are providing training based on actual training requirements in your work area, you must submit copies of documents used to identify WSH training needs or requirements of required personnel and policies and procedures used to provide WHS training to required personnel.

ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS

This task will require you to evaluate your Work Health and Safety Management System (WHSMS) applicable to your work area against your organisation’s quality systems framework.

Use your workplace/organisation’s template to complete this task or use the WHS Evaluation Report template provided at the Bounce Fitness site.

WHSMS can be based on the following:

WHS Management Plan (WHSMP) completed during Workplace Project Task 2

Any existing Work Health and Safety System used in your work area other than the WHSMP completed for this assessment

To complete this task, you must:

Review WHS records of your work area relevant to the following:

Risk management process, which must include

Hazard identification

Risk assessment

Risk control

Consultation and participation in resolving WHS issues

Reports of injuries and illness in the organisation

Evaluate effectiveness of current WHSMS against key performance indicators (KPIs) in relation to your organisational quality framework.

Document measures and evaluation of the following areas of your WHSMS in the WHS Evaluation Report:

Training programs

Injury and illness performance

Hazard identification

Risk assessment

Risk control

Consultation arrangements

Review Workplace Project Task 12 – Assessor’s Checklist before starting this task. This form outlines the following:

Resources you are required to access to complete the task. Discuss these resources with your assessor prior to starting this task

All criteria your submission must address to satisfactorily complete this task. You assessor will also discuss with you the criteria outlined in this form prior to the assessment

Your assessor will discuss these resources with you, and the criteria outlined in this form prior to this assessment. Include any supplementary documents/sources used to evaluate your WHSMS.

Review the template you will use to complete this task. If you are using a template from your workplace/organisation, discuss with your assessor to ensure that the template covers all requirements that apply to this task. Otherwise, use the WHS Evaluation Report template provided at the Bounce Fitness site.

Submit the completed WHS evaluation report to your assessor. Include any organisational WHS records used measure and evaluate the following:

Training programs

Injury and illness performance

Hazard identification

Risk assessment

Risk control

Consultation arrangements

Submitted evidence must correspond to the tools used to record decisions as outlined in the WHSMP submitted in Workplace Project Task 2 or any corresponding WHSMS used by the learner.

IMPORTANT!

If you are using an existing WHSMS in your work area, you must provide copies of documentation where you recorded the necessary management systems.

ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS

This task requires you to modify at least two areas of improvement in the WHSMP used in your work area.

Prior to commencing this task, you must:

Have completed Workplace Project Task 2; or

Have access to your work area’s WHSMS other than the WHSMP developed for this assessment.

This must be the WHSMS accessed to complete Workplace Project Task 12.

To complete this task, you must:

Access and review the WHS Evaluation Report completed during Workplace Project Task 12

Identify at least two areas of improvement in the WHSMP.

If you’re referring to the WHSMP from this project assessment, you can base your areas of improvement on the evaluation conducted in Workplace Project Task 11

If you’re referring to the WHSMS from your own work area you can base your areas of improvement on any of the following:

Evaluation conducted during Workplace Project Task 11

Any other areas you find from the WHSMS that require modification

Modify the section of your WHSMP or WHSMS document based on your findings. Outline the modifications done using the version control section of WHSMP document.

Review Workplace Project Task 13 – Assessor’s Checklist before starting this task. This form outlines the following:

Resources you are required to access to complete the task.

All criteria your submission must address to satisfactorily complete this task.

You assessor will discuss these resources with you, and the criteria outlined in this form prior to this assessment.

Submit the modified WHSMP.

IMPORTANT!

If you are using an existing WHSMS in your work area, you must provide copies of documentation where you recorded the necessary management systems.

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Assessment Details

Learner

Course Code

Unit of Competency

BSBWHS521 – Ensure a safe workplace for a work area

Assessor Name

RTO

Assessment Activity

Satisfactory

Needs more evidence

Short Answer Questions

Short Answer Question 1

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Workplace Project Assessment

Task 1: WHS Requirements

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Task 2: WHS Management Plan

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Task 3: Approve Resource Required to Implement WHSMP

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Task 4: Hazard Identification Form and Risk Register

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Task 5: Implement Risk Control Measures

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Task 6: Presentation of Resolution of Risk Management

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Task 7: Include Hazard Identification in Organisational Change

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Task 8: WHS Induction Pack

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Task 9: Deliver WHS Induction to Required Personnel

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Task 10: Training Needs Analysis

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Task 11: Provide WHS Training to Required Personnel

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Task 12: WHS Evaluation Report

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Task 13: Modify WHS Management Plan

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Supervisor/Observer Name

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Learner’s Comments

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