Work Health And Safety Management Plan For Expansion Of Head Office Of BizOps Enterprises

WHS principles and regulations in Tasmania

Task 1

List of WHS principle in Tasmania

The principle WHS regulation and law in Tasmania contains Work Health and Safety Act 2013, assisted by work health and safety regulation 2012. The Work health and safety act are assisted by principles of activities that offered supervision in obtained the necessary customary of health and wellbeing. The principles of these act are accepted by Tasmania are registered down on the web portal (Wetzel and Thabet 2015).

Health and wellbeing activity

The WHS act 2012 has widened the dimensions who has a sense of care and reposnisbilty. In this context, managers and supplementary individual are authorised with conducting business and take part in responsibilities to maintain dangers that are imposed on all the members of the part that has a place to donate for sustaining successful organisation of office (Gurcanli et al. 2015).

Health and protection risk are rising from work, which needs to be efficiently handled by abolishing and limiting the risk for preventing the workers and other employees from adverse events and harm caused to health and welfare.

Bizops Enterprise is dedicated to offering a safe working atmosphere for all of its employees in regards with the legislative obligation. However, providing immediate actions for the unhealthy and adverse situation is an evaluation of commitment towards workplace (A Aldunce et al.2015).

All the employees working within Bizops work for managing health and safety within the workplace. In this aspect, training and communication of health and safety practices are provided to all the employees. Moreover, health and safety representatives are appointed in accordance to the state and territory of legislations. Therefore, health and safety authorities has the authority to manage the legislation of the state (Clothier et al. 2015).

In the context of Tasmanian legislation requirement all the employers and employees of Bizops enterprise needs to  discuss and collaborate with the management employees within the workplace to consult over the risk taking place within the workplace (Wainwright et al. 2015). This will be done to prevent the health and protection of the workers who can be at a risk within the workplace. This legislation are applied in all Tasmanian workplaces.

Task 2

1. a)Bizops Human resource manager

The project of Bizops Enterprise consists of human resource manager, which is Gina Harris whose duty is to report to the Managing director of human resource Sayo Yoshida for dealing with issues associated to human resource. The roles and responsibilities of human resource manager is to train and manage the employees (Chang et al. 2015). They are accountable for offering a complete range of services related to human resource. This is one of the major skilled duty in the HR working in the back office of Bizops wherein the administrator managers all the data entry and updates of the employee files by preparing the necessary documents for the managers and staffs (Hale et al. 2015).

1. b) Bizops WHS manager

Roles and responsibilities of employees in managing health and safety risks

Bizops Work health and wellbeing manager is responsible for managing health and care standards by supervising health and care risks of the staffs employed within the enterprise. Their role is also associated with providing training to all the staffs in managing them in dealing with workplace and safety principles (Lewis et al. 2016). A necessary role of workplace health and safety manager is prevention of the workplace from occurrence of disaster and provide support during emergency management plans.

1. c) Site manager

  The site manager in the Bizops enterprise manages and supervises the regular day-to-day operations thereby ensuring that the work has been done in a safe way, done on time within a required budget (Fernández-Muñiz et al. 2014). This job role also allows to maintain the appropriate quality standard of the workplace.

1. d) Site supervisor

The responsibility of the site supervisor includes the monitoring and administration of the site operation in accordance to health and care principles. It is the duty of the site supervisor to analyse the hazards of the sire, determine the risks, perform a regular inspection, and maintain an effective safety program (Tan et al. 2015).

Task 3:

Hazard description

Workplace hazard Hazard medium Example of harm caused Harmful substance  Benzene Leukaemia Condition Wet floor Slips and fall Source of energy Electricity Shock and electrocution Cords Frayed electrical cords Electrical shock
Stages	Rate	Description
A	Almost possible	It is almost possible to take place and is estimated to take place in majority of the cases
B	Probably	There is a possibility of occurrence within the circumstance
C	Average	May take place at certain time
D	Not likely	Could not take place at times
E	Occasional	Might take place in terms of  extraordinary circumstances
F	Never	It cannot be foresighted about the occurrence

Stages	Rate	Description
1	Not significant	Null injuries Minimum monetary loss
2	Minor Hazard	First Aid treatment Average financial loss  The injury has been immediately sustained
3	Average Hazard	Required clinical intervention High loss of finance On site exposure sustained with the support from external assistance
4	Major risk	Widespread injuries High loss of finances Offsite release with no Harmful impact
5	Disastrous	Loss of production capacity Death High financial loss Toxic release  at external site

Risk categorisation Matrix

Likelihood	Significance
	1	2	3	4	5
A	S	S	H	H	H
B	M	S	S	H	H
C	L	M	S	H	H
D	L	L	M	S	H
E	L	L	M	S	S

Legend

H high risk provided with detailed research and planning of management that are necessary for senior levels of management

S potential risk, management accountability that is required to be specified

M Average risk, management accountability that is needed to specified

L Limited risk that can be managed by daily process.

Risk control/ treatment

Activity:
Risks	Impact on the employees(injury), impact on the organisational services (productivity and finance), impact on some internal public relation
Control measures/ treatments	Control measure	Strength	Weakness
Injury treatment up to almost 1 year, admission for the treatment	Immediate treatment	No prior planning
Financial investment	Cost	Limited cost
Regular supervision	Effective technique	Limited employees
Effective management control	Effective technique	Lack of training
Risk and Hazard supervision techniques	Effective technique	Lack of equipment’s
Impact of risk/s on areas outside your responsibility	The risk may lead to the failure of the project, and result in conflict in between various employees engaged with the HR manager IT employees and trainers (Wilhite et al. 2014).  These could also lead to huge financial loss due to the in completion of the project’s
Personnel involved	Site supervisor, HR manager, site manager, project team lead and executive manager
Expected outcomes of risk treatment plan	Risk treatment pan will help in limitation of the likelihood, negative mishaps associated with the risk. The risk treatment will therefore help in identifying the risk and help in taking effective measures to prevent the risk (Epstein 2018).

Action required:

Recommended control(s):
Need to obtain instructions and training before utilising the harmful equipment’s	Consulting with the supervisor
As for help for fixing the wet floor	Consulting the plumber
Employer needs to monitor the hazards caused due to electricity	Electrician is needed to consulted
Heavy objects are needed to be lifted and removed	Supervisor needs to check it
Job request raised:    Yes   No                        Job no. (insert as appropriate)
Person responsible	Human resource manager and supervisor
Controls to be completed by:	January 2019
Approved by organisational unit head/officer	(name)                 (signature) (date)
Completion verified by health and safety representative (HSR)	(name)                 (signature) (date)

Implementation plan

Hazard description

Summary of the impact: in order to ensure that the project is completed an inspection checklist will be prepared for reporting it to the project manager for developing a procedure for dismantling the project. This is to ensure that risk of collapsing of project and that it is acceptable.

For management use

· Bizops Company will be contacted and will be advised that they are required to complete it and submit the project to the project organisation for starting the onsite construction (Purdy 2009). · Development of procedure for pulling it to pieces, the project need to act in response to the intolerable technical issue

Risk: collapse of the project

Required resources

• Time for the project organiser’
• Accessibility of Computer
• Telephone and mobiles

Accountabilities

Duty of the project organiser is to communicate with the company manager, gather the checklist from the technical supervisor and develop the dismantling processes. The site construction company is needed to be contacted in regards to the changing stages of technical issue.

Controls to be completed by:	· The process of implementation is required to be completed before the project release event · The other company involved with Bizops Enterprise is required to be notified for managing the checklist requirement before the starting of project (Zou et al. 2017).
Approved by organisational unit head/officer	(name)                 (signature) (date)
Completion reviewed by health and safety authority (HSR)	(name)                 (signature) (date)

Task 4

Construction equipment	supplier	price
Hearing preventing device such as ear plugs	Australian manufacturing suppliers	$200
Eye and face protection devices such as safety glasses and face shields	Australian manufacturing suppliers	$250
Safety helmets	Australian manufacturing suppliers	$150
Fall arrest harness equipment’s while working at heights	Australian manufacturing suppliers	$300
Visibility vests and  rubber boots	Australian manufacturing suppliers	$600

Task 5

Issues	participants	Methods and procedure	Date	result
A problem with temperature of air that is encountered at one level of the office block that may not affect the levels of work and safety of workers in other levels.	Health and safety representatives	Consultation with the employees and other shareholders that does not need to be documented unless under the WHS regulation.	23.11.2018	Help in ensuring that all the workers are well informed about the issues that could affect their health and safety (Wilhite 2014).
Conflict and confusion about the issue amongst the employee.	Health safety committee	Storing records for determining the compliance with the necessities of consultation.	24.11.2018	Records will help in integrating the effective management of health and safety in future situation.

Task 6

Organization	Service	Address
National Disability service	This service exists to improve the quality of disability services through the provisions of safe working practices.	Australia
FCB group	This company takes an interdisciplinary approach for WHS, so that they can provide business along with full spectrum of services.	Australia
Comcare	Consultation on health and safety issues to provide an opportunity for adding value while making decisions	Australia

Task 7

Date	Action/activities	Workers(plumbers , electricians, carpenters)	Supervisor( site manager, manager, h/r)	Method
22.11.18	Training and supervising the employees in understanding the legislative requirement	Training them about the Hazard safety and prevention mechanism for analysing the effective of the process	Supervisors and managers will be conducting the induction and training for all the employees before the starting of refurbishment work,	Specific emphasis needs to be given for ensuring the familiarity with local standard of operating process
23.11.18	Identifying their relevant duties and accountabilities	Participate in the training and process of induction	Reviewing and upgrading the procedure in accordance to the criteria of the WHS document	All the employees needs to be well informed about the project and to reduce the occurrence of injuries while working with the equipment’s.
24.11.18	Offering participation for recognition and resolving issues in WHS system of management	Ensure all the operating vehicles, plant and equipment as a part of training plan	Maintain the coordination and delivering of general HS training.	Before the staring of the refurbishment project, contractors are needed to complete the online form of induction for the contractors.

Responsible person	Possible hazards	Actions to be taken
Plumbers	Hazard caused by lead fumes and particles along with welding fumes	Environmental control are necessary to reduce the impact of the hazard within the workplace
Carpenters	Caused by wood dust, heavy loads, and injury occurring due to repetitive motion	Need to be careful while lifting heavy loads, and need to protective mask
Electricians	Injury due to heavy metals in solid fumes, awkward posture and electrical cords	Need to fix the electrical chords, need to wear protective jackets and needs equipment for lifting heavy metals,

 Task 8

s/no	areas	Responsible person	How often( frequency)
1	Training	Supervisor and manager	One week
2	Finance	Finance Executive	One month
3	Operation	Operational manager	Two weeks
4	Plants	Contractors	Weekly

Task 9

1. Data collection policies

Data collection policy consist of both operational collection of Data and date repositories, the purpose of the Data collection policy is to manage and regulate the development of data collection in Western Australia Through strategic initiatives within WA health.   Safe work Australia collects information for various Australian WHS legislation (WorkSafe Queensland 2018). However, business owners of the Bizops organisation have legal obligation for securing the data and safeguard the privacy of all the employees and customers’ information. In order to protect the online customers of the company the organisation need to comply with laws on protect and spam. In this context, the company needs to follow the electronic Transaction Act 2001 and Australian Electronic transaction Act 1999.

Task 10

Strategy	Type	Actions	Timeline	Responsible Person	Required Resource	Evaluation	Tool
Supporting the risk management process for hazardous tasks done manually	Safe and healthy places	Creating lease with work and health plan for adopting participative program for ensuring reduction of risk	By December 2018	Workplace safety manager	Committee member	Developed risk management process, worker feedback	Evaluation report on learning
Promoting group activities	Safe environment	Development and adoption of 12 team challenge with improvement within workplace.	Jan 2019	Workplace wellness committee members	Members of the committee	90 of the employees maintaining and completing the tasks	Registration of database and recording them

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