Purpose and Objectives
It is the policy of Company that the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Senior Management, Managers and Supervisors have the overall responsibility to ensure that the Obligations and Responsibilities Statements in this procedure are issued and followed.
Scope
This policy applies to the CEO, Senior Management and all workers of Company and includes contractors, sub-contractors, apprentices, trainees, work experience students, volunteers and members of the public.
Policy Statement
Work Health & Safety (WHS) leadership can be demonstrated through the inclusion of Workplace Health and Safety in the day-to-day running of the business. All aspects of the business functions should include WHS as a standard factor. Leadership can be shown by:
- Providing leadership and support for the promotion of the Integrated Management System (Whirligig)
- Ensure WHS Objectives, KPIs, Targets and Reporting Timeframes are outlined in the organisation’s current WHS Management Plan.
- Review Quarterly WHS Statistics and ensure new actions have been adopted for any non-completed items of the Quarterly Action Plans and any Rectification Action Plans that have been reported as outstanding.
- Ensuring WHS is a standard agenda item on relevant meeting minutes
- Advising management on the penalties for breaches of WHS legislation
- Ensuring there is a process in the recruitment procedures to ensure potential employees are matched to the available position (e.g. pre-employment medicals, hearing assessments, etc)
- Conducting training using WHS Obligations and Responsibilities Training Package for Management
- Ensuring Senior Management is represented on the Health and Safety Committee (HSC) and regularly attending meetings
- Senior Management is to set and approve WHS objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Management need to receive accident/incident and workers’ compensation statistics
- Senior Management is to take reasonable steps to ensure the WHS Objectives and Health and Safety Representatives (HSRs) perform their prescribed duties
- Managers need to participate in Toolbox Talks or team meetings, accident and incident investigations, conduct hazard inspections and risk assessments
- Supervisors are to ensure workers undertake regular training to ensure they understand the importance of WHS
- Supervisors are to monitor the performance of their workers through the conduction of competency testing, Toolbox Talks or team meetings and observations of work practices
- Monthly reports on the implementation of KPIs, Rectification Action Plans (RAPs) and the WHS Plan are to be submitted and discussed at Senior Management meetings
- The CEO advising managers and supervisors they will be held accountable for accidents/incidents in their areas
- Managers and supervisors are to be held accountable for the completion of items on the MAPs
Responsibilities
It is the responsibility of all Company employees to take ownership of all Workplace Health and Safety Issues, Policies and Procedures and to ensure that through dedication and vigilance all associated risks to personnel, Company and the public is mitigated at every opportunity where practicable.
Company is committed to comply with relevant Occupational Health and Safety and with other requirements placed upon the organisation which will be achieved in conjunction with this Work Health and Safety Policy Statement, individual Safe Work Procedures and guidelines which will be developed in consultation with workers and communicated to all workers, based on the current Work Health and Safety Legislation, Codes of Practice and various Australian/New Zealand Standards.
Executive Responsibilities
- All provisions of the Work Health and Safety Legislation and Company Safety Management System policies and procedures comply with
- Management is committed to establishing measurable objectives and targets to ensure that the aims of Company are complied with by providing overall actions for reducing workplace injury and disease and to ensure that Company workers, contractors, sub-contractors, trainees, apprentices, work experience students, volunteers and visitors are free from hazards and risks to their wellbeing
- Approved Work Procedures, Work Instructions and Job Safety Analyses are constantly monitored and comply with requirements
- All machinery and equipment is properly maintained and in good working condition
- The provision of all necessary protective clothing and equipment for workers to minimise risk and exposure to hazards
- The provision of all the necessary information, instructions and documentation to ensure ongoing workplace health and safety
- The provision of adequate resources and training to manage and maintain work health and safety in all areas of the organisation. Work health and safety training participation will be a mandatory requirement of employment and specific to each position
Workers, Contractors, Customers/Clients and Visitors Responsibilities
- Conducting themselves in a manner that ensures not only their own health and safety but also that of everyone around them
- Taking care that their acts or omissions do not adversely affect the health and safety of other persons
- Adopting and maintaining safe working practices in accordance with procedures, policy and workplace instructions
- Using appropriate personal protective clothing and equipment as required and/or directed
- Reporting all accidents, injuries, incidents and damage to personnel/plant/equipment to supervisors/management as soon as possible.
Review
Company require s the Work Health and Safety Policy Statement be reviewed on an annual basis or with a change in the currently appointed CEO to ensure that the Work Health and Safety requirements and objectives of Company are being met.
Definitions
- Contractor – A person, organisation or entity that performs a specific act or acts including the provision of services and/or materials to another person, organisation or entity under an agreement enforceable by law.
- Workers – Include all direct employees and unless otherwise specified
Integrated Management System (IMS) – Is the system to plan, implement, evaluate, review and audit the effectiveness of existing and future policies, procedures and work practices, and achieve compliance with relevant legislation.
Company uses its IMS for its record management.
Reasonably Practicable As defined in Section 18 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (QLD).
Reasonably practicable: means that which is, or was at a particular time, reasonably able to be done to ensure health and safety, taking into account and weighing up all relevant matters including:
- the likelihood of the hazard or the risk concerned occurring
- the degree of harm that might result from the hazard or the risk
- what the person concerned knows, or ought reasonably to know, about the hazard or risk, and ways of eliminating or minimising the risk
- the availability and suitability of ways to eliminate or minimise the risk after assessing the extent of the risk and the available ways of eliminating or minimising the risk, the cost associated with available ways of eliminating or minimising the risk, including whether the cost is grossly disproportionate to the risk.
Workplace – As defined Section 8 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (QLD).
Meaning of workplace
A workplace is a place where work is carried out for a business or undertaking and includes any place where a worker goes, or is likely to be, while at work.
In this section, place includes:
• a vehicle, vessel, aircraft or other mobile structure; and
• any waters and any installation on land, on the bed of any waters or floating on any waters.
Volunteer – Any person, who of their own free will, offers to undertake unpaid work and is accepted as a volunteer by the Chief Executive Officer and/or his authorised delegates.
Please note that the above definitions apply to all policies, procedures and guidelines in Chapter 2 and the supporting subchapters.