Task 1 – Theory: Short Answer Questions
SITXWHS006- Task 2 – Skill Test
Unit Code
SITXWHS006
Unit Description
Identify hazards, assess and control safety risks
Assessment Type
Task 2 – Project
Assessment Location
Training Kitchen - 460 Cleveland St, Su
y Hills NSW 2010
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Assessment Task 2 - Project (PT)
Project
Scenario:
CFR (Chocolate factory Richmond) Overview
CFR is the sweetest and most addictive attraction in Richmond, New south wales. It is the flagship
and of CFG (chocolate factory global) and the company was founded by Mark Mizzi. It is the business, which started in 1980 with 10 employees and 50-60 visitors on daily basis, however with the uniqueness and quality of the product they are offering to its visitors, online customers their business increased to 150 permanent staff, 2000 daily visitors and 100 contractual workers for machinery, operation and maintenance.
From the beginning, the company takes pride in following legislation, acts and regulations applicable to the industry.
The company has a WHS plan in place to manage their workplace health and safety obligations.
Organisational procedures:
Hazard identification and risk assessment
As per organisational procedures, the following temples will be used to keep a record of the hazards and incidents:
Hazard identification:
· Hazard identification form
· Risk matrix
Risk assessments:
· Risk assessment template
· Risk matrix
Controlling risk
· Control measures will be first documented by the Work Health and Safety officer.
· The control measures will be then discussed in a meeting with the management.
· Then the decisions will be made to implement the control measures.
You are Work Health and Safety Officer at Chocolate factory Richmond; you have the following job responsibilities:
· Investigating
ecording incidents, accidents, complaints and cases of ill health
· Undertaking risk assessments and site inspections
· Ensuring that equipment is installed co
ectly/safely
· Identifying potential hazards
· Determining ways of reducing risks
· Writing internal health and safety policies/strategies
· Compiling statistics
· Drawing up safe operational practices and making necessary changes
· Writing reports, bulletins and newsletters
· Making presentations to groups of employees/managers
· Providing health and safety meetings and training courses for employees
· Liaising with relevant authorities
· Keeping up to date and ensuring compliance with cu
ent health and safety legislation.
Scenario:
Recently some safety incidents have taken place in the “Chocolate Factory Richmond”. These incidents have been recorded in the following documents:
· Hazard complaint registers
· Incident reports
Note: These documents will be provided along with this assessment.
The management wants you to identify hazards, assess the associated workplace safety risks, take measures to eliminate or minimise those risks, and document all processes.
Task:
As a Work Health and Safety Officer, you are required to identify hazards, assess the associated workplace safety risks, take measures to eliminate or minimise those risks, and document all processes. To do so, you need to complete the following activities:
· Activity 1: Identify hazards
· Activity 2: Assess the safety risk associated with a hazard.
· Activity 3: Eliminate or control the risk
Activity 1: Identify hazards
In this activity, you are required to use organisational work health and safety (WHS) plan (Refer Annexure 1- provided along with this assessment) and identify each of the following types of actual or foreseeable workplace hazards:
· Physical environment
· Plant
· Work practice
· Security issue
ACT 1.1. After analysing the organisational work health and safety (WHS) plan, you are then required to access and use the following hazard identification and risk assessment tools and template documents.
· Hazard identification form
· Risk matrix template
ACT 1.2. Using these templates, you are then required to identify actual or foreseeable hazards that have the potential to harm the health and safety of workers or anyone else in the workplace.
To identify the hazards, you need to carefully analyse the following documents:
· Hazard complaint registers
· Incident reports
· Work Health and Safety (WHS) plan
After analysing the documents, you are then required to complete the ‘Hazard identification form’.
When completing the ‘Hazard identification form’, you are required to:
· Document the following:
· Business name
· Conducted by and date
· Hazards
· Document hazards identified.
· The risk associated with the hazards.
· People/persons who may be affected by the hazard.
· Use Risk rating to identify initial risk rating.
Hazard identification form
Business name:
Conducted by:
In attendance:
In attendance:
Date:
Hazards identified:
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What are the risks associated with the hazard?
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People/persons who may be affected by the hazard:
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What has already been done to control the hazards?
(Note: leave this section blank if nothing has been done)
Hazard 1
Hazard 2
Hazard 3
Hazard 4
Hazard 5
Hazard 6
Initial risk rating:
Hazard 1:
☐ low ☐ moderate ☐ high ☐ critical ☐ catastrophic
Hazard 2:
☐ low ☐ moderate ☐ high ☐ critical ☐ catastrophic
Hazard 3:
☐ low ☐ moderate ☐ high ☐ critical ☐ catastrophic
Hazard 4:
☐ low ☐ moderate ☐ high ☐ critical ☐ catastrophic
Hazard 5:
☐ low ☐ moderate ☐ high ☐ critical ☐ catastrophic
Hazard 6:
☐ low ☐ moderate ☐ high ☐ critical ☐ catastrophic
(Note: further action needs to be taken if the initial risk rating for the hazard is higher than “low”)
What further action needs to be taken?
(eg. provide training, review of safe work procedure, provide manual task equipment, etc…)
Hazard 1
Hazard 2
Hazard 3
Hazard 4
Hazard 5
Hazard 6
By when (date):
Completion date:
Completed by:
Risk matrix template:
Activity 2: Assess the safety risk associated with a hazard
In this activity, you are required to:
ACT 2.1. Assess the safety risk associated with each of the above hazards, using the following risk assessment tools and template documents:
· Risk assessment template
· Risk matrix (Provided in activity 1).
ACT 2.2. Work alone to use a systematic method to assess the risks.
ACT 2.3. Use ‘Risk Matrix’ to collect sufficient evidence of the type and level of risk posed by the identified hazards.
ACT 2.4. Document the outcome of the risk assessment, suggesting actions to eliminate or control risks.
ACT 2.5. Keep records of risk assessments using “Risk Assessment template”.
Risk Assessment template:
1. Background Information
Workplace:
Date:
Title of Assessment:
Name of person conducting assessment:
2. Risk Assessment
Identify and list Hazards
List Cu
ent Risk Controls
Risk Rating
List Additional Controls (if any - where cu
ent controls are not adequately managing the level of risk)
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Activity 3: Eliminate or control the risk
After assessing the risk, you are required to a
ange a meeting with the management to discuss the risks identified, the risk ratings and the control measures that should be implemented to eliminate or control the risks identified for each of the above hazards.
The following will be the participants of the meeting:
· Work Health and Safety Officer (You-Chairperson)
· Health and Safety representative
· Owne
The agenda of the meeting is to take measures to eliminate or control the risks identified for each of the above hazards in line with organisational procedures.
Before the meeting, you need to:
· Prepare meeting agenda using the template provided.
· Prepare a presentation that includes the following. (6-8 slides)
· Hazards identified
· Risks associated with the hazards.
· Risk ratings
· Control measures
During the meeting, you need to:
· Deliver the presentation.
· Apply listening and questioning techniques to check or confirm understanding.
· Discuss ways of eliminating or controlling each risk.
· Discuss priority measures to eliminate or control risks.
· Request feedback from Health and Safety representative and Owner.
· Gain agreement on risk control measures to be implemented for each risk.
Health and Safety representative and Owner will:
· Provide valuable inputs regarding risk control measures to be implemented.
· Agree of control measures that will be most effective.
After the meeting, you must complete the “Minutes-of-Meeting” template provided below.
Meeting agenda template:
Date/Time:
Location:
Chairperson:
Meeting Attendees:
Full names and roles
Agenda Item/Topic
Discussion/Outcomes
Action Office
Due Date
Welcome
(Agenda item 1)
Topic?
(Agenda item 2)
Topic?
(Agenda item 3)
Topic?
Summary
Overall Summary
Decision/s
Action/s if any
Next Meeting time/date
Meeting closed at:
Minutes are a true and accurate record of the meeting
Approved/confirmed by whom?
Meeting minutes template:
Minutes of Meeting
Meeting Objective:
Attendees:
Venue:
Date:
No.
Points Discussed
Actions Suggested
Target Date
Signature of attendee 1: XXXXXXXXXXSignature of attendee 2:
Signature of attendee 3: XXXXXXXXXXSignature of attendee 4:
Performance Criteria/Performance Checklist
Your task must address the following performance criteria/ performance checklist.
To be assessed as satisfactory (S) in this assessment task the participant needs to demonstrate competency in the following critical aspects of evidence
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Traine
Assessor to complete
(Comment and feedback to students)
a) Interpreted hazard identification and risk assessment template documents and organisational policies and procedures.
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b) Co
ectly scored the risks and calculated an overall risk level for the identified hazard.
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c) Identified actual or foreseeable hazards that have the potential to harm the health and safety of workers or anyone else in the workplace.
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d) Co
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e) Documented the outcome of the risk assessment, suggesting actions to eliminate or control risks.
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f) Actively and cooperatively participated in group risk assessments
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g) Suggested effective controls while incorporating the views of other people in the workplace.
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h) Assertively suggested effective controls while incorporating the views of other people in the workplace.
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Risk Matrix
Severity
NEGLIGIBLE
small/unimportant;
not likely to have a major
effect on the operation of
the event / no bodily injury
to requiring minor first aid
injury
MARGINAL
minimal importance;
has an effect on the
operation of event but will
not affect the event
outcome / requires medical
treatment
CRITICAL
serious/important;
will affect the operation of
the event in a negative way
suffers serious injuries or
medical treatment of minors
CATASTROPHIC
maximum importance;
could result in disaste
death;
WILL affect the operation of the
event in a negative way / death,