Knowledge Assessment
Knowledge Assessment
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HLTWHS003 Maintain work health and safety
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Assessment Instructions
Table 1 Assessment instructions
Assessment details
Instructions
Assessment overview
The aim of this assessment is to assess your knowledge required to implement and monitor work health and safety (WHS) policies, procedures and work practices as part of a small work team.
Assessment Event numbe
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Instructions for this assessment
This is an online or paper-based quiz that assesses your knowledge of the unit.
This assessment is in 1 part:
1. Online Quiz
And is supported by:
· Assessment feedback
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ectly.
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Access to this assessment and learning resources, including the student workbook and any supporting documents or links.
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Due date
Time allowed
1.5 hours (indicative only)
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Part 1: Questions
Read each question carefully.
1. SafeWork NSW is the state authority responsible for overseeing the work health and safety legislation and codes of practice in New South Wales. Identify the resources that make up the legislative framework for work health and safety in New South Wales including any additional resources used to monitor and enforce compliance. Select all that apply.
Table 2 Multiple choice
Answer choices
Select the co
ect answe
s
a) Work Health and Safety Act 2011
b) NSW Work Health and Safety Act 2017
c) Work Health and Safety Regulations 2017
d) Codes of Practice
e) NSW Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011
f) Australian Standards
g) SafeWork NSW Compliance and Enforcement Policy
h) Safe Work Australia National Compliance and Enforcement Policy
SafeWork NSW is the state authority responsible for overseeing the work health and safety legislation and codes of practice in the state of New South Wales.
Use the links provided to answer questions two (2) to five (5) on the Rights & Responsibilities of duty holders.
2. According to work health and safety legislation in NSW, who is responsible for making sure that there are work health and safety procedures and programs in the workplace and that they are followed?
Table 3 Multiple Choice
Answer choices
Select the co
ect answe
a) HSR
b) Contracto
c) Employer (PCBU)
d) Worke
3. Workers, contractors and visitors all have similar work health and safety responsibilities and obligations that must be met. Identify ALL obligations listed below for these duty holders.
Table 4 Multiple Choice
Answer choices
Select the co
ect answe
s
a) Take reasonable care for your own and others health and safety.
b) If you see a hazard in the workplace, you can just ignore it and not wo
y about telling anyone.
c) Comply with any reasonable instructions, policies and procedure given by the employer, business or organisation.
d) Under WHS law, workers, contractors and visitors injured away from the workplace can be supported by the business.
4. Identify ALL Work Health and Safety obligations listed below for the employer (PCBU).
Table 5 Multiple Choice
Answer choices
Select the co
ect answe
s
a) You are obliged to consult workers about health and safety.
b) You must keep a register of all injuries.
c) If employees are injured in the workplace it is because they are accident-prone and it is not your responsibility.
d) Under WHS law, workers injured at home need to be supported by the business.
e) You must practice due diligence by continually and comprehensively making sure that your business keeps workers, volunteers and visitors safe while they are at work.
f) Employers and other PCBUs have a primary duty of care for workers.
5. Identify ALL Work Health and Safety rights available to Australian workers.
Table 6 Multiple Choice
Answer choices
Select the co
ect answe
s
a) The right to be shown how to work safely
b) The right to appropriate safety equipment
c) The right to thirty-minute
eaks on every shift
d) The right to speak up about work conditions
e) The right to say no to unsafe work
f) The right to not follow reasonable health and safety instructions from your employe
g) The right to be consulted about safety in the workplace
h) The right to workers compensation
i) The right to a fair and just workplace
j) The right to fair pay and conditions
6. Record keeping is an important part of maintaining an effective work health and safety management system. Identify why there is a requirement to keep records.
Table 7 Multiple Choice
Answer choices
Select the co
ect answe
s
a) Keeping records demonstrates compliance with the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 and provides evidence for regulators that work health and safety risks are being managed
b) Keeping records allow a business to track its safety performance against national and international KPI’s for safety standards
c) Keeping records helps the business ensure that all mandatory work health and safety training has been completed and provides a reference when reviewing hazards and risk assessments
d) Keeping records demonstrates compliance with Safework Australia allowing national expansion of a business
7. Identify what records or reports you would need to complete and keep to meet work health and safety legislation in NSW. Select all that apply.
Table 8 Multiple Choice
Answer choices
Select the co
ect answe
s
Agendas and minutes of WHS meetings or when safe work practices have been discussed
Hazard identification records, risk assessments and control actions
Workplace policies and procedures register
WHS information provided to staff
Consultation processes, decisions and follow-up actions including notes recorded in a management diary
Incident and accident notifications to WHS regulatory authorities
Incident/near miss register and related statistics
Workplace inventory register
Accident, illness and injuries registe
Employee personal and medical records
WHS training and induction plans
8. Identify the two codes of practice that are relevant to the health care and community services industries.
Table 9 Multiple Choice
Answer choices
Select the co
ect answe
s
a) Hazardous Chemicals
b) Confined Spaces
c) Hazardous manual tasks
d) How to manage and control asbestos in the workplace
9. Hazardous manual tasks are defined in the Work Health and Safety (WHS) Regulation 2017 as:
“a task that requires a person to lift, lower, push, pull, ca
y or otherwise move, hold or restrain any person, animal or thing that involves one or more of the following:
Table 10 Multiple Choice
Answer choices
Select the co
ect answe
a) Sustained force, high or sudden force, fixed movement, awkward posture, exposure to vi
ation
b) Repetitive or sustained force, low force, repetitive movement, sustained or awkward posture, exposure to slippery floors
c) Repetitive or sustained force, high or sudden force, repetitive movement, sustained or awkward posture, exposure to vi
ation
d) Non- sustained force, low force, fixed movement, awkward posture, exposure to vi
ation
10. What are the work health and safety requirements in regards to infection control in health care? Select all that apply
Table 11 Multiple Choice
Answer choices
Select the co
ect answe
s
a) Incorporation of safe practices for handling blood, body fluids and secretions as well as excretions [91].
b) Disposing of tissues into secure bins
c) Routine environmental cleaning
d) The safe use and disposal of sharps
e) Hand hygiene and cough etiquette
f) The use of personal protective equipment (PPE)
g) Re-using disposable gloves
11. Match the common workplace hazard to the most relevant harm they cause.
Table 12 matching
Common workplace hazards
Answer
Harm they cause
X-ray/CT Scan
a) Injuries