BSBWHS415 Assessment Brief

Section 1 – Theory Questions
Section 2 – Practical Assignment
Summary Sheet

Assessment Requirements

The assessment activities in this Assessment Task Portfolio assess all the elements, performance criteria, skills, and knowledge of the unit of competency BSBWHS415 Contribute to implementing and maintaining WHS management systems.

To demonstrate competency in this unit, you must undertake all tasks in this Assessment Task Portfolio and complete them satisfactorily, as well as successfully complete your work placement. If you do not answer some questions or perform some tasks, you will be deemed ‘Not Competent’, and your trainer/assessor may ask you supplementary questions to determine your competence. In addition to completing all tasks satisfactorily, you will also be required to demonstrate satisfactory communication skills during some practical activities. Once you have demonstrated successful completion and consistency in performance, you will be awarded this unit.

Should you still be deemed Not Yet Competent, you will have the opportunity to undertake a supplementary assessment or appeal the result.

As part of the assessment process, all students must abide by any relevant assessment policies as provided during induction.

If you feel you are not yet ready to be assessed or that this assessment is unfair, please contact your assessor to discuss your options.

Certificate IV in Workplace Health and Safety BSB41419
Email: certivwhs@ohsa.com.au or info@ohsa.com.au
Phone: 1300 647 200

Candidate Information

Section 1 – Theory Questions

Instructions to the Student

Please read all the information given to you before you start any assessment task. If you do not understand some or all of the questions, please ask your trainer/assessor for assistance. If you are uncomfortable with any of these questions, please contact your assessor, who will make alternative arrangements. Attempt to answer ALL questions in your own words on the assessment paper provided. The questions are designed to assess your understanding of the unit as well as your underpinning knowledge.

To satisfactorily complete this assessment task, you are required to complete the whole assessment. To do this, you will need to answer all questions correctly and demonstrate you have achieved the required knowledge to industry standards. This assessment is intended to be equitable, fair and flexible. If you feel that we should change any aspect of this assessment to be fair, equitable or flexible, immediately contact your assessor, who will attempt to make alternative arrangements.

Please Note:

1. This assessment may be reassessed. If you need more than two attempts, the RTO may charge a reassessment fee and recommend additional training.
2. Upon notification of your assessment results, your trainer/assessor can provide you with additional information on interpreting the assessment outcomes and guide you on your future options.

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

Question 1.

What is a health and safety management system? Explain in approximately 20- 30 words.

Question 2.

List five (5) common characteristics among effective systems.

Question 3.

List five (5) failures from the Moura Coal Mine Disaster that resulted in 11 fatalities.

Question 4.

Outline the responsibilities of the following duty holders in regard to the WHSMs.

Question 5.

What may safe systems of work include? List three (3).

Question 6.

List the five principles of the continual improvement process that are included in most quality and safety standards.

Question 7.

List the main statements common to most WHS policies.

Question 8.

Who should be consulted when developing a WHS policy? List five (5) key groups.

Question 9.

List five (5) examples of WHS policies that will apply to most workplaces.

Question 10.

What is a training needs analysis (TNA), and what does it involve? Your answer should be at least 20 words.

Question 11.

What should a WHS action plan format include?

Question 12.

What is a positive performance indicator, and list three (3) examples.

Question 13.

What are the risks of only relying on WHS outcome indicators? Your answer should be at least 15 words.

Question 14.

Explain in approximately 20- 40 words why procurement and purchasing are a primary strategy for good risk management.

Question 15.

List five (5) areas/processes of WHS risk management that should be part of the WHSMS.

Question 16

List the steps to effective injury management and explain the importance of effective return to work and injury management in a WHSMS.

Question 17.

What is the name of the International Standard for OHS Management Systems that you can use to audit your system against?

Question 18.

List three (3) hazards specific WHS audits a workplace could conduct.

Question 19.

What things must you keep in mind when storing WHS information?

Question 20.

List two substances that require Health Monitoring and state the relevant legislative reference.

Question 21.

Why are periodic reviews of WHS performance critical? Explain in approximately 20- 50 words.

Question 22.

Why might it be good to get external input when reviewing the management of WHS? Your answer should be at least 15 words.

Question 23.

List two (2) external documents, databases and groups of people that could be accessed when reviewing WHS management.

Question 24.

List three (3) internal sources of information that you could access to make an improvement to the WHSMS.

Question 25.

List the suggested headings of the outcomes of a WHS Review Report.

*** END OF SECTION 1 – WRITTEN ASSESSMENT ***

Please also turn over the page and provide feedback on this assessment to the Assessor and the RTO.

Student comments – Specify any improvement you could recommend relating to this assessment.

Assessor comments about the assessment (include any details of reasonable adjustment or other consideration)

Section 2-Project

General Instructions:

The summative project assessments are designed to see a practical demonstration of key competencies as per the mandated unit of competency. The project tasks for this unit consist of three activities, all must be completed satisfactorily.

The activities are based on our course case study organisation, Seedies Furniture. An outline of the organisation is provided on the following page; however, in summary, it could be said that the organisation has been a cowboy operator since starting and now, as a result of a number of inspections and injuries, it has a new Safety Advisor (That is you, congratulations).

Seedies Furniture Case Study:

Background:

• You are employed as a safety advisor at a medium-sized furniture distribution warehouse with 50 staff located close to a major city in Australia.
• Furniture is delivered to major furniture brands such as Harvey Norman, Freedom, Domain, Myer, David Jones, etc. The warehouse used to be an old automotive workshop and panelbeating business.
• The furniture can be quite large, heavy, and awkward. Some sofas can weigh in excess of 50kg with sofa beds approaching 150kg.
• The warehouse operates Monday to Friday with fixed 8-hour morning and afternoon shifts.
• There are 30 casual warehouse workers, 15 various full and part-time administration, security and supervision staff and 5 management staff.
• There are 3 fork trucks, 3 reach stackers greater than 3t, 3 order-picking forklift trucks and one 14m boom-type elevating work platform used throughout the workplace.
• There have been a number of lost time injuries over the past 12 months, with one looking like it might proceed to a Common Law claim.
• The injuries have been mostly due to manual handling of large items of furniture from off the wooden pallets and then onto small hand carts.
• There have also been some minor cuts from sharp edges and a few slips and trips. Most injuries have been to the lower back whilst lifting in flexed and twisted spinal postures.
• These injuries are partly due to the rack above being quite low, pickers needing to bend and crouch to remove the large lounges, and the lounge feet getting caught in the wooden pallets.
• One injury occurred when a worker fell 1.8m whilst he was standing on the top plate of a step ladder lifting a small bedside table from the second rack and was admitted to hospital for 10 days with a fractured hip. He is considering going to the common law for this injury.
• The fork trucks use LPG, and there is an outside LPG storage area with up to 400L of LPG that isn’t designed very well, and gas bottles aren’t secured at all times.
• There is also an underground petrol storage tank with up to 3000L of petrol, which is leased by an adjoining mechanic workshop as a fuel storage area.
• There is a 2.5m deep pit with a false floor that used to be used by the mechanics when working under the cars. It is now covered with a false floor, but sometimes workers have to access it via a small hatch and rung-type ladder to clean out rotting debris that accumulates in there.
• There are two loading docks where medium rigid trucks receive and deliver the goods. The trucks are owner-driver contractors, and some occasionally use the fork trucks.
• The warehouse pickers are employed through a labour-hire company. Some of the workers are from a non-English-speaking background.
• There is no Health and Safety Committee or any Health and Safety Representatives.
• There is a small maintenance workshop for a handyman to repair damaged furniture. It has power tools, welding and cutting equipment and a small spray-painting area.
• One of the cabinets was found to contain 20L of paint, 20L of All-Purpose Paint thinner, 1 small C-size cylinder containing acetylene, 10L of mineral turpentine, 10L of hydrochloric acid, 5 tubes of Sika-Flex Pro and some small cans totalling 1L of methyl ethyl ketone peroxide (MEKP). This was located 1.5m away from an occasionally open container of diesel.
• There are also some chemicals stored in this workshop, although there is no chemical register or Safety Data Sheets.
• None of the electrical equipment has any electrical test tags, and there are no fire extinguishers in the maintenance workshop.
• The workshop has an extraction ventilation system that is used for occasional welding or spray-painting jobs. The outlet vent is 5m away from the split system air conditioning system air intake that supplies the office administration building.
• There is no qualified first aider in the workplace.
• There has been a couple of near misses with truck drivers and fork trucks as the toilets are at the back of the warehouse in the staff crib room.
• Some of the admin staff intermittently complain of sore eyes and irritated airways.
• A cleaning contractor comes in after hours to clean the office/administration areas. Sometimes, there are pools of water still left on the floors after cleaning.
• Security is provided by a contract security company.

PART 2 – PROJECT

The project will consist of three parts. Each part is outlined below. Consult and participate in small groups if you prefer.

Part A: Contribute to developing WHMS implementation plan.

Using the Seedies WHSMS plan template below, work as a team (whole class or in small groups) to plan elements of the WHSMS as it applies to Seedies, recording the plan on the approved Seedies template as per Seedies Policy. As part of this group exercise, communicate ideas for the plan among each other and integrate feedback as required.

In your plan, make sure you integrate return to work and injury management into the organisation.

Part B: Contribute to implementing the WHSMS plan.

Note: The scope of your own role for implementation is minimal, requiring ongoing approval from the PCBU. As the PCBU is still reluctant to empower you to do anything that is required for compliance, the PCBU still wants an implementation strategy memo presented for review. Based on your implementation strategy, the PCBU will implement the plan themselves.

Using the provided template on the following pages, write a brief memo to the PCBU communicating the plan in relation to roles and responsibilities as specified in the plan. You will be using the ‘responsible person’ column to guide others’ contributions to ensure implementation is successful.

Part C: Reviewing WHSMS implementation plan.

The plan has started to be implemented; however, it is behind schedule, with a lack of ownership being a contributing factor. The PCBU has recognised this and has asked you to review the safe systems of work implemented. Within the scope allowed by your PCBU, you have been asked to review monitoring results to assist in the evaluation of the WHSMS implementation.

Using the review statistics and feedback from the consultation below, develop a short report on the effectiveness, including any changes as required. As part of this exercise, you will be required to complete a new plan and include that in your report to the PCBU.

Monitoring and Feedback:

Please use the following to present to your PCBU in Part C (page 16)

• There were gaps in responsibilities between elements of the Seedies WHS Policy developed in BSBWHS412 and in this process. (The PCBU sees the WHS policy as just some compliance document and not as the overarching WHS Policy)
• WHS inspections by supervisors are being treated as a tick and flick, and you have seen supervisors doing them from their desks.
• Consultation has improved with strong attendance at toolbox talks and meetings
• Contractors’ WHSMS compliance has been neglected/not implemented
• Feedback from workers has been good, with most saying they feel the safety culture at Seedies is improving.

Project Part A: WHSMS PLAN TEMPLATE

Project Part B: Contribute to implementing the WHSMS plan

Note: The scope of your own role for implementation is minimal, requiring ongoing approval from the PCBU. As the PCBU is still reluctant to empower you to do anything that is required for compliance, the PCBU still wants an implementation strategy memo presented for review. Based on your implementation strategy, the PCBU will implement the plan themselves.

Write a memo to the PCBU communicating the plan you have developed above. You will be using the ‘responsible person’ column to guide others’ contributions to ensure implementation is successful.

MEMO: Seedies Furniture

To: Seedies Furniture PCBU and Officers
From: Insert Your Name
Date: Insert Date

RE: Implementation of WHSMS Plan

Dear PCBU and Officers of Seedies

Thank you for the opportunity to provide you with an implementation outline/strategy for the WHSMS plan. You will notice, as per the person responsible column, that you are responsible for ensuring implementation and compliance with the plan, with support from others. I have provided a suggested implementation strategy below, including priority items to be implemented.

Thanks again for your time, and if you require further clarification, I am happy to meet you for a coffee to discuss.

Kind Regards,

Insert Your Name
WHS Advisor
Seedies Furniture

Project Part C: Reviewing the WHSMS implementation plan

Please use the following outline to develop a brief report to the PCBU. See Part C instructions on page 13.

SFRIFESHAPSHOT REPORT: INITIAL IMPLEMENTATION MONITORING AND EVALUATION REPORT

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTIONThis report is to highlight the outcomes of the monitoring and evaluation of the WHSMS plan for Seedies Furniture. Generally, the outcomes were minimal as implementation was not actioned as per the plan. As part of this report, an updated implementation plan has been provided.

EVALUATION

Provide an evaluation below based on the monitoring and feedback outcomes provided under the heading ‘Part two Project’ – see the bottom of page 13.

Based on the above, please find attached herewith (Attachment 1) a revised plan to assist with further implementation. (Copy your WHSMS plan completed earlier and make relevant changes. For those not using a computer, use the template on the next page and rewrite the adjusted plan.

CONCLUSION

CONCLUSIONWithout appropriate follow-through, the team at Seedies is a laggard in responding to change. A top-down approach modelling the way will assist in ensuring ongoing implementation success. I am available to assist with the implementation of the adjusted plan. A full WHS report will be produced based on the outcomes of this adjusted plan.

Sign Off

Insert your name WHS Advisor Seedies Furniture

Attachment 1: Updated WHSM plan:

Section 2-Project-Result

Marking Criteria – Part A

Marking Criteria – Part B

Marking Criteria – Part C

Competency Summary Record Sheet

Assessors’ Comments: Provide assessment feedback, including any items requiring reassessment.

A competent result cannot be granted until all assessment tasks have been completed satisfactorily.

Do not sign this section until after the assessment has been marked and you are satisfied with the result.

By signing this, you are declaring that this is your own work and is not plagiarised