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This version first released with BSB Business Services Training Package Version 5.0.

ELEMENTS 

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA 

Elements describe the essential outcomes.

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

1. Establish a WHS management system in a work area

1.1 Locate, adapt, adopt and communicate WHS policies that define the organisation’s commitment to complying with WHS laws

1.2 Identify duty holders and define WHS responsibilities for all workplace personnel in the work area according to WHS laws, policies, procedures and programs

1.3 Identify and approve financial and human resources required by the WHS management system (WHSMS) according to organisational procedures

2. Establish and maintain effective and compliant consultative arrangements for managing WHS in a work area

2.1 Work with required personnel to set up and maintain consultative arrangements according to required WHS laws

2.2 Resolve issues raised through participation and consultation arrangements according to required WHS laws and organisational protocols

2.3 Provide information about consultation and participation outcomes to required personnel according to organisational policies and procedures

3. Establish and maintain procedures for effectively identifying hazards, and assessing and controlling risks in work area

3.1 Develop procedures for ongoing hazard identification, and assessment and control of associated risks

3.2 Include hazard identification at the planning, design and evaluation stages of any workplace change to ensure that new hazards are not created by proposed changes and existing hazards are controlled

3.3 Develop and maintain procedures for selecting and implementing risk controls according to the hierarchy of control measures and WHS legislative requirements

3.4 Identify inadequacies in existing risk controls according to the hierarchy of control measures and WHS legislative requirements, and promptly provide resources to enable implementation of new measures

3.5 Identify requirements for expert WHS advice, and request this advice as required, according to organisational procedures

4. Evaluate and maintain a work area WHS management system (WHSMS)

4.1 Develop and provide a WHS induction and training program for required personnel in a work area as part of organisation’s training program

4.2 Use a system for WHS recordkeeping to allow identification of patterns of occupational injury and disease in the organisation, and to maintain a record of WHS decisions made, including reasons for decisions

4.3 Measure and evaluate the WHSMS according to organisation’s quality systems framework

4.4 Develop and implement improvements to WHSMS to achieve organisational WHS objectives according to organisational procedures

4.5 Ensure compliance with WHS legislative framework to achieve, as a minimum, WHS legal requirements

Skill 

Description 

Reading

• Organises, evaluates and critiques ideas and information from WHS laws, policies, procedures and programs

Writing

• Produces WHS policies, procedures and programs using appropriate vocabulary, grammatical structure and conventions
• Records WHS decisions according to organisational requirements

Oral communication

• Presents and seeks information from others using structure and language suitable for the audience
• Provides information about WHS policies and procedures and on resolution of WHS issues, varying the level of technical vocabulary to suit the audience

Numeracy

• Selects from, and applies, an expanding range of mathematical and problem-solving strategies in identifying financial and human resources required to support WHS requirements

Navigate the world of work

• Monitors adherence to legal and regulatory rights and responsibilities for self and others in relation to WHS
• Develops, implements and reviews WHS-related policies, procedures and processes according to legislative and organisational requirements

Interact with others

• Plays a lead role in situations requiring effective collaboration, demonstrating the ability to guide discussions and negotiate agreeable outcomes
• Provides feedback to others in forms they can understand and use

Get the work done

• Develops plans or processes to manage relatively complex WHS management tasks, with an awareness of how they contribute to operational and strategic goals
• Uses systematic and analytical processes, setting goals, gathering relevant information, and identifying and evaluating options against agreed criteria
• Considers whether, and how, others should be involved, using consultative or collaborative processes as an integral part of the decision-making process
• Uses digital systems and tools to enter, store and retrieve relevant information

Release 

Comments 

Release 1

This version first released with BSB Business Services Training Package Version 5.0.