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Release 1

This version released with AHC Agriculture, Horticulture and Conservation and Land Management Training Package Version 4.0.

Elements

Performance Criteria

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1. Develop health and safety policies and procedures

1.1 Develop a health and safety management plan and program for the enterprise in consultation with designated personnel and management

1.2 Clearly define and allocate health and safety responsibilities and duties and include them in job descriptions and duty statements for all relevant positions

1.3 Identify, seek and allocate financial and human resources for implementing health and safety policies and procedures

1.4 Provide and explain information on the health and safety system, for the area of responsibility, in a form which is readily understood by employees

2. Establish and maintain processes to ensure the participation of all employees in the application of health and safety

2.1 Establish and maintain consultation processes with employees and their representatives

2.2 Deal with issues raised though participation and consultation and resolve them promptly and effectively

2.3 Provide information about the outcomes of participation and consultation in a manner readily accessible to employees

2.4 Provide information on injury management and return to work programs

3. Establish and maintain procedures for managing work health and safety risks

3.1 Identify existing and potential hazards and risks in accordance with trends identified in health and safety records

3.2 Integrate the risk management process for the ongoing identification of hazards, risk assessment, control and review of risks within systems of work and procedures

3.3 Monitor activities to ensure that the procedure is effectively adopted throughout areas of responsibility

3.4 Address work health and safety hazards and risks at the planning, design and evaluation stages of any change in the workplace to ensure that new hazards and risks are not created

3.5 Investigate, record and report incident and dangerous occurrences in accordance with legal requirements and enterprise procedures

4. Plan and manage enterprise procedures for dealing with potential emergency events

4.1 Identify, with accuracy, potential emergencies posing risks to the health and safety of workers and the public

4.2 Develop plans and procedures, which control the risks associated with potential emergency events, in consultation with relevant emergency services

5. Establish and maintain a health and safety induction and training program

5.1 Develop a health and safety induction program to meet the health and safety needs of new employees and visitors to the workplace

5.2 Develop a health and safety training program as part of supervisors’ and employees’ general training

6. Establish and maintain a system for health and safety records

6.1 Establish and monitor a system for keeping health and safety records to allow identification of patterns of occupational injury and disease in the enterprise

6.2 Regularly update records and use them to evaluate the effectiveness of the enterprise health and safety system

7. Evaluate the enterprise health and safety system

7.1 Assess the effectiveness of the health and safety system according to enterprise aims with respect to health and safety

7.2 Develop and implement improvements to the health and safety system to ensure more effective achievement of enterprise aims

Skill

Description

Writing

• Develop policies and procedures that provide clear and succinct guidance for employees

Numeracy

• Create graphs utilising health and safety data to summarise relevant activity

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Comments

Equivalence status

AHCWHS502 Manage work health and safety processes

AHCWHS501 Manage work health and safety processes

Elements removed

Performance criteria clarified

Foundation skills added Assessment requirements updated

Equivalent unit

Release

Comments

Release 1

This version released with AHC Agriculture, Horticulture and Conservation and Land Management Training Package Version 4.0.