SITXWHS003 Assessment XXXXXXXXXXPage 1 of 16
AOI Institute July, 2022 – Version 1.1
Student Assessment
SITXWHS003 Implement and monitor work health and safety practices
SITXWHS003 Assessment XXXXXXXXXXPage 1 of 16
AOI Institute July, 2022 – Version 1.1
In order to be assessed as Competent (C) in this unit, you need to provide evidence which demonstrates that you can perform the required competencies to the required standard. Competency depends on consistently demonstrating the skills, attitude and knowledge that enables you to complete workplace tasks confidently in a variety of situations.
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to implement predetermined work health and safety practices designed, at management level, to ensure a safe workplace. It requires the ability to monitor safe work practices and coordinate consultative a
angements, risk assessments, work health and safety training, and the maintenance of records.
To attain competence in this unit you must:
Successfully complete the Theory Assessment via the exam portal
Successfully complete the Report and the Case Studies and upload your answers in one word document via the student portal
Successfully complete the Practical Assessment Activity (Trainer to observe)
SITXWHS003 Implement and monitor work health and safety practices
Report
Instructions:
You are to write a report on implementing and monitoring work health and safety practices. Your answers will form part of the evidence gathered for this unit. You must complete and submit this report to your trainer for assessment by the due date provided by your trainer via your student portal. Your trainer will provide you with the due date at least 3 (three) weeks before the assessment is due.
Report
Your task is to write a report on implementing a health and safety program for a chosen tourism, travel, hospitality or events business operation workplace. Research the requirements of your state or te
itory’s health and safety legislation. You can address the requirements of an organisation for which you work, if it is a tourism, travel, hospitality or events business operation. If you are not working, you can use generic terms to describe the program that might be implemented in any tourism, travel, hospitality or events business operation.
This project will assess the required knowledge for this study unit. You must demonstrate understanding of:
relevant legislation
employer responsibilities
employee responsibilities
In your report:
Describe the workplace: industry area, products and services, main work practices.
Clearly explain the health and safety legislation relevant to that workplace or industry area.
How would you develop the program, with who would you consult and how would you implement the program?
What are the most important aspects of the program and how would you allocate responsibilities?
How would you provide appropriate health and safety information to the employer, employees and any other, relevant stakeholders?
How will hazards be identified and risks assessed?
What procedures would you put in place to develop, implement and monitor controls? Who else would be involved?
How can the effectiveness of controls be monitored?
What questions can you ask to identify inadequacies in control measures? List at least 5. You may refer to Safe Work Australia’s Code of Practice on How to Manage Work Health and Safety Risks (2011)
What training do you think should be provided and to whom? Who should deliver training?
What records and reports should be kept and how might any collected data be used?
SITXWHS003 Implement and monitor work health and safety practices
Case Studies
Instructions:
You are to complete the following case studies on implementing and monitoring work health and safety practices. Your answers will form part of the evidence gathered for this unit. You must complete and submit this report to your trainer for assessment by the due date provided by your trainer via your student portal. Your trainer will provide you with the due date at least 3 (three) weeks before the assessment is due.
Case Study 1
Your task is to read the following scenario and complete the tasks below.
Scenario:
In the Central Sterile Supply Department (CSSD) of a large metropolitan hospital, enrolled nurses are required to prepare and pack theatre trays for sterilisation and dispatch to the hospital’s operating theatres. The procedure requires the nurses to bend over a large, deep sink to wash various steel instruments and trays in warm soapy water. The tiled floors in front of the sink are often wet, and slips are not uncommon.
After washing and drying the instruments and trays, the nurses package them according to theatre requirements. They wrap the instruments of varying sizes and weights in cloth and ca
y them from the preparation area to the high temperature sterilisers, where they lift them onto racks, ready for sterilisation. On completion of the sterilisation process, the nurses remove the trays from the steriliser and ca
y them past the preparation bench to load them onto trolleys for transfer to the theatre.
Due to budget cuts some months earlier, the number of CSSD staff has been reduced by three. However, due to increasing waiting lists for elective surgery, the hospital administrators have decided to increase the number of operations ca
ied out by 15%. To help, a nurse’s assistant was employed two days before the scheduled increase in theatre use.
The increased workloads mean that the nurses are unable to provide a formal job induction to the new employee. The employee is assigned the job of packing the washed instruments onto the trays using a checklist.
In theatre, staff are finding inco
ect instruments on the trays.
Tasks
1) List the hazards associated with this scenario.
Hazard Identification Tool
Task, activity or work area
Hazard
Risk
Cause/Management
2) In the table, document the risk level for each hazard identified. Use the risk assessment matrix provided.
Show how you came to your final risk assessment. For example, Likely + Minor = High.
Risk Assessment Matrix
Probability
Consequences
Negligible
Mino
Majo
Critical
Catastrophic
Almost certain
Likely
Possible
Possible, but unlikely
Improbable
3) Use the risk priority table to list the hazards in priority order—from most urgent to least urgent.
Risk Priority Orde
The most urgent risks:
The least urgent risks:
Case Study 2
Your task is to read the following scenario and complete the tasks below.
Scenario:
A college that trains people for the hospitality industry operates a number of kitchens and restaurants.
A large food store supplies the cookery lecturers, who place food orders and collect them daily for the classes and the restaurants.
An industrial washing machine is located in the food store near the service desk. Tea towels used in the kitchens are washed daily in the machine.
The washing machine is quite old and food store staff have started to complain about the noise it generates. The initial response to this complaint was to put the food store staff in hearing protectors (earmuffs or earplugs).
However, since their work is of a service nature, they need to be able to communicate with the cookery lecturers and other staff.
Tasks
1) List at least one control measure at each level of the hierarchy of control.
Hierarchy of Control
Level
Control Category
Control Measures
1
Elimination
2
Substitution
3
Engineering controls
4
Isolation
5
Administrative controls
6
Personal protective equipment
2) What is the most important requirement regarding control in a situation like this?
3) What method of control should be adopted and why?
Case Study 3
You are a senior health and safety representative responsible for the health, safety and security of employees, customers, visitors and property in a Happy Feet Hotel. You have been asked by your manager to monitor adherence and ongoing compliance to organisational WHS procedures during day-to-day operations and take prompt actions to address non-compliance with procedures and safe work practices.
Your task is to write a report to your manager summarising your findings and recommending any control actions to remove, reduce, or manage hazards. You need to refer to Happy Feet WHS Policy and Procedure to complete this case study (Appendix 4).
Part of this Case Study is a Practical Demonstration to be completed in the classroom. Please refer to Practical Demonstration section for more details and instructions.
In your report, explain the following:
1) How will you monitor adherence and compliance to the WHS procedures in the hotel?
2) What action and when can you take to address non-compliance with the WHS procedures?
3) During the monitoring of day-to-day operations, you have found out the following WHS non-compliances:
Identified WHS Non-Compliances
Kitchen area
Out of 28 times you visited the kitchen area there were spills and items on the floor 16 times (items on the floor included
oken plates, glasses, greasy soup)
Kitchen staff – had cuts and burns from preparing food on all occasions
One new kitchenhand, Joe Black, was lifting a heavy pot of hot soup by himself and he spilled it over himself and was severely burnt. He had to be taken to hospital, where he spent 2 weeks. It happened on 4 Feb 2020 at 12:05pm in the kitchen next to the stove. The accident was witnessed by you.
On 3 occasions you have witnessed abusive and aggressive behavior from the chef when he was screaming at the other members of staff and throwing plates at them
On 2 occasions you have witnessed chef cleaning an oven with a hazardous cleaning chemical without any PPE
Waiting area at the reception
The floor was freshly cleaned, but there was no WHS signage
A plastic bottle with some hazardous cleaning substance was forgotten next to the flowerpot
Untidy electrical cables behind the receptionist desk
Receptionist Kate sits very closely to her computer screen all day and her posture is te
ible. She never leaves her desk- not even for lunch!
Second receptionist Lucy is listed as the second First Aid Officer, but she has not undertaken any first aid training
Housekeeping:
Emergency exit from the accommodation area is blocked by empty boxes and ga
age
Pool area:
Lightning was not working in the evening
In relation to the identified WHS non-compliances, complete the tasks below:
Written tasks:
Identify the hazards, conduct the risk assessment and list suggestions for controlling the identified risks. Advise the methods of eliminating/ reducing the risk using the Hierarchy of Control.
Complete this task by using the Hazard Checklist (Appendix 1) and the Risk Assessment Table (Appendix 2). You will need to add any missing hazards. You need to complete these WHS documents electronically, please do not print them.
Complete the Hazard Reporting based on the incident of lifting a heavy pot and spilling a hot soup. You must complete the form in line with the WHS Policy and in line with legal requirements.
Practical tasks:
Hold a consultation session with either kitchen staff or the receptionists (select only one group of employees) and provide WHS information to them