Hltohs300a Activity 1 Answers
HLTOHS300A
CONTRIBUTE TO OHS PROCESSES
Assessment activity 1: Plan work in accordance with relevant provisions of OHS legislation, standards, codes of practice/compliance codes and guidance material
1. What is the aim of OHS legislations, regulations, and codes of practice?
The aim of OHS legislation is to simplify the requirements for a workplace to ensure it is safe and healthy. The legislation is the guidelines for the director of a company to make the codes of practice for their team to follow. Regulations provide a simplified approach to health and safety in all types of workplaces. Codes of practice provide the minimum standards for health and safety in a workplace and codes of practice provide direction on how standards of occupational …show more content…
2. Define the duties of employees under the Act.
Their duty is to ensure that their behaviour is not placing themselves or anyone else in danger.
3. Briefly explain the duty of care concept?
It is the legal responsibility of a worker to maintain the health and safety practices in place and work in a way to ensure that they do not endanger theirs or other’s health, safety and welfare.
4. How can staff be advised of the emergency procedures they should follow?
With regular practices of those emergency procedures (e.g. Fire Drills) so that they can change and update the emergency procedures until they are in safe working order and appropriate.
5. Explain the concept of a hierarchy of control measures?
1. Elimination- Eliminate a hazard, you completely eliminate the associated risk.
2. Substitution- Substitute a substance or a process with one the has less potential to cause injury.
3. Engineering- Make a structural change to the work environment or work process to interrupt the path between the work and the risk
4. Administration- Reduce risk by upgrading training, changing rosters, rest breaks or other administrative
CONTRIBUTE TO OHS PROCESSES
Assessment activity 1: Plan work in accordance with relevant provisions of OHS legislation, standards, codes of practice/compliance codes and guidance material
1. What is the aim of OHS legislations, regulations, and codes of practice?
The aim of OHS legislation is to simplify the requirements for a workplace to ensure it is safe and healthy. The legislation is the guidelines for the director of a company to make the codes of practice for their team to follow. Regulations provide a simplified approach to health and safety in all types of workplaces. Codes of practice provide the minimum standards for health and safety in a workplace and codes of practice provide direction on how standards of occupational …show more content…
2. Define the duties of employees under the Act.
Their duty is to ensure that their behaviour is not placing themselves or anyone else in danger.
3. Briefly explain the duty of care concept?
It is the legal responsibility of a worker to maintain the health and safety practices in place and work in a way to ensure that they do not endanger theirs or other’s health, safety and welfare.
4. How can staff be advised of the emergency procedures they should follow?
With regular practices of those emergency procedures (e.g. Fire Drills) so that they can change and update the emergency procedures until they are in safe working order and appropriate.
5. Explain the concept of a hierarchy of control measures?
1. Elimination- Eliminate a hazard, you completely eliminate the associated risk.
2. Substitution- Substitute a substance or a process with one the has less potential to cause injury.
3. Engineering- Make a structural change to the work environment or work process to interrupt the path between the work and the risk
4. Administration- Reduce risk by upgrading training, changing rosters, rest breaks or other administrative