Objective: To provide you with an opportunity to show you have the required knowledge for this unit.

The answers to the following questions will enable you to demonstrate your knowledge of:

Basic aspects of the relevant state or territory occupational health and safety (OHS) or WHS legislation:

o actions that must be adhered to by businesses

o employer responsibilities

o employee responsibilities to participate in WHS practices

o employee responsibility to ensure safety of self, other workers and other people in the workplace within the scope of own work role

o ramifications of failure to observe OHS or WHS legislation and organisational policies and procedures

Specific industry sector and organisation:

o workplace hazards and associated health, safety and security risks

o contents of health, safety and security procedures relating to:

evacuation of staff and customers

security management of cash, documents, equipment, keys or people

o format and use of template reports for hazards and incident and accident reporting

o safe work practices for individual job roles

o procedures for WHS management practices:

hazard identification

WHS induction training

safe work practice training

suggesting inclusions for WHS policies and procedures

Answer each question in as much detail as possible, considering your organisational requirements for each one.

1. Outline basic aspects of the relevant state or territory occupational health and safety (OHS) or WHS legislation in each of the following areas:

Actions that must be adhered to by businesses

Employer responsibilities

Employee responsibilities to participate in WHS practices

Employee responsibility to ensure safety of self, other workers and other people in the workplace within the scope of own work role

Ramifications of failure to observe OHS or WHS legislation and organisational policies and procedures

2. You assessor will assign you one or more of the following topics to research. Create a presentation based on your research to present to your peers.

The topics are as follows:

Specific industry sector and organisation:

o workplace hazards and associated health, safety and security risks

o contents of health, safety and security procedures relating to:

evacuation of staff and customers

security management of cash, documents, equipment, keys or people

o format and use of template reports for hazards and incident and accident reporting

o safe work practices for individual job roles

o procedures for WHS management practices:

hazard identification

WHS induction training

safe work practice training

suggesting inclusions for WHS policies and procedures

This activity will need to be observed, and a signed record of this observation (completed by the assessor or third party) should be uploaded in your answer. It should detail what was done, when it was done, the time it was completed in, the completed actions and the overall outcome of the tasks.