Required Skills & knowledge
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Essential knowledge:
- Examples of safety benchmark
- Hierarchy of control and its application
- Legislative requirements for record keeping and reporting
- Nature of common workplace hazards relevant to the workplace
- Organisation procedures related to OHS including:
- consultation and participation
- hazard identification, risk assessment and control
- hazard, incident and injury reporting
- incident investigation
- record keeping
- Personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements including selection, use, storage and maintenance
- Principles of 'safe design' processes
- Principles of risk assessment particularly risk analysis
- Relationship between specific OHS issues and sustainability in the workplace, including environmental, economic, workforce and social sustainability
- Regulatory requirements relevant to the particular industry/type of work site
- Requirements for hazard identification and hazard identification processes
- Sources of OHS information both internal and external to the organisation
- The difference between hazard and risk
- The hierarchy of control and its application
- Workplace specific information including:
- hazard identification procedures relevant to the hazards in their work place
- in depth knowledge of hazards of the particular work environment and how they cause harm
- work procedures
Essential skills and attributes:
- Address the OHS risks specific to their technical or specialist work role, both in relation to their own health and safety, and to the health and safety of others who may be affected by their work
In addition, the candidate must be able to effectively do the task outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage the task and manage contingencies in the context of the identified work role. This includes the ability to:
- Assimilate information from a range of sources
- Communicate with potential users of the product or system of work, other technicians/ specialists, managers and experts advisers
- Postulate scenarios and analyse the scenarios to identify hazards and analyse risk
- Relate to people from a range of social, cultural and ethic backgrounds and physical and mental abilities
- Take into account and use opportunities to address waste minimisation, environmental responsibility and sustainable practice issues
- Use language and literacy skills to comprehend and interpret OHS legislation, guidance material and benchmarks
- Use technical skills to access OHS information
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Range Statement
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Life cycle covers:
All phases in the life of a product or system of work and may include:
- design and development
- manufacture, construction, assembly
- import, supply, distribution
- sale, hire or lease
- storage
- transport
- installation, erection and commissioning
- use, operation, consumption
- maintenance, servicing, cleaning, adjustment, inspection, repair, modification, refurbishment, renovation
- recycling, resale
- decommissioning, dismantling, demolition, discontinuance, disposal
Product is:
The output of the work, which may include:
- development
- production
- modification of physical objects, such as:
- plant
- equipment
- tool
- fitting
- fixture
- consumables
Products may be for use inside organisation or for sale
System of work is:
- Work process
- Work practice or procedure
- The way work is organised such as:
- team and supervision structure
- reporting lines
- roster
- geographical location
Map includes:
- People who may use or interface with the product or system of work
- The range of uses of the product or system of work, both intended and unintended
A hazard is:
- A source or situation with the potential for harm in terms of human injury or ill-health, damage to property, the environment, or a combination of these
Specific safety related hazards may include but are not limited to:
- Alarms
- Bodily fluids
- Burnout (compassion fatigue)
- Chemicals
- Computer use
- Cytotoxic medicines and waste
- Defusing violent behaviour
- Egress from rooms
- Managing violent behaviour on outreach and home visits
- Manual handling
- Manual handling (boxes)
- Moving parts of machinery
- Noise
- Rostering
- Sharps
- Trips falls etc
- Underfoot hazards
- Violence in the workplace
- Work posture
Other workplace hazards may include:
- Occupational violence
- Stress
- Fatigue
- Bullying
Analysis involves analysing a hazard to:
Identify:
- factors influencing the risk and the range of potential consequences
- effectiveness of existing controls
- likelihood of each consequence considering exposure and hazard level
- Combine these in some way to obtain a level of risk
Risk:
- in relation to any hazard, means the probability and consequences of injury, illness or damage resulting from exposure to a hazard
OHS legislation includes:
- Commonwealth, state and territory OHS Acts and regulations
Standards include:
- Documents produced by national bodies, OHS regulators or industry bodies, that prescribe preventative action to avert occupational deaths, injuries and diseases
- Standards are of an advisory nature only, except where a law adopts the standard and thus makes it mandatory
- Standards may be called up as evidence in court or other enforcement action
Codes of practice/compliance codes are:
- Documents generally prepared to provide advice to employers and workers, of an acceptable way of achieving standards
Codes of practice/compliance codes may:
- be incorporated into regulations
- not relate to a standard
- be called up as evidence in court or other enforcement action
Guidance material:
- Is an advisory technical document, providing detailed information for use by unions, employers, management, health and safety committee members and representatives, safety officers and others requiring guidance
- Advises on 'what to do' and 'how to do it'
- Has no legal standing
Risk controls include:
The devices and methods to:
- where practicable, eliminate the hazard
- where this is not practicable, minimise the risk associated with the hazard
Hierarchy of control is:
The preferred order of control measures for OHS risks:
- elimination controlling the hazard at the source
- substitution e.g. replacing one substance or activity at the source
- engineering e.g. installing guards on machinery
- administration policies and procedures for safe work practices
- Personal Protective Equipment e.g. respirators, ear plugs
High consequence OHS risk includes:
- High impact events that usually occur rarely such as explosions, fires and building collapses but may result in very serious injury, death or multiple death situations
Fail-to-safe includes:
- Design features of equipment that ensure a failure or defect, or another factor such as loss of power, results in the equipment being left in a safe condition
Risk register is a document detailing:
- A list of hazards, their location and people exposed
- A range of possible scenarios or circumstances under which these hazards may cause injury or damage
- Nature of injury or damage caused
- The results of the risk assessment
- And may also include:
- Possible control measures and dates for implementation
Residual risk is:
- The risk which remains after controls have been implemented
Expert advice may be sought from:
- Persons either internal or external to the organisation including:
- safety professionals
- ergonomists
- occupational hygienists
- audiologists
- safety engineers
- toxicologists
- occupational health professionals
Other persons providing specific technical knowledge or expertise in areas related to OHS including:
- risk managers
- health professionals
- injury management advisors
- legal practitioners with experience in OHS
- engineers (such as design, acoustic, mechanical, civil)
- security and emergency response personnel
- workplace trainers and assessors
- maintenance and tradepersons
Sources of OHS information include
Persons, organisations and references where knowledge about OHS may be obtained
These sources may be:
- Internal, including:
- hazard, incident and investigation reports
- workplace inspections
- incident investigations
- minutes of meetings
- Job Safety Analyses (JSAs) and risk assessments
- organisation data such as insurance records, enforcement notices and actions, workers compensation data, OHS performance data
- reports and audits
- material safety data sheets (MSDSs) and registers
- employees handbooks
- employees including questionnaire results
- OHS advisors
- manufacturers' manuals and specifications
- External, including:
- regulatory bodies and OHS Acts regulations, codes and guidance material
- other relevant legislation
- Office of the Australian Safety and Compensation Council (ASCC)
- National Occupational Health and Safety Commission (NOHSC) documents
- databases such as national and state injury data
- OHS specialists and consultants
- newspapers and journals, trade/industry publications
- internet sites
- industry networks and associations including unions and employer groups
- OHS professional bodies
- specialist advisors
- research information
Organisation policies and procedures include:
Policies and procedures underpinning the management of OHS including:
- hazard, incident and injury reporting
- hazard identification, risk assessment and control
- consultation and participation
- incident investigation
- quality system documentation
Work procedures include:
- Standard operating procedures
- Batch specifications, recipes
- Operator or manufacturer manuals
- Procedures for selecting, fitting, using and maintaining personal protective equipment
OHS records may include:
- Hazard, incident and investigation reports
- Workplace inspection reports
- Incident investigation reports
- First aid records
- Minutes of meetings
- Job Safety Analyses (JSAs) and risk assessments
- Material safety data sheets (MSDSs) and registers
- Employees handbooks
- Plant and equipment operation records including those relevant to registered plant
- Maintenance and testing reports
- Training records
- Environmental monitoring records
- Health surveillance records
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