ECEYE208A Manage a children’s service Week 6 © Romi Sharma 2012

 Work, Health and Safety Act 2001 requires employers to demonstrate proactive and preventative measures undertaken in the work place to address hazards.  Work Health & Safety is of paramount importance to both employees and employers. This means that services need to plan in advance to reduce the risk of injury/accidents from occurring in the workplace. 2(C) Copyright Romi Sharma 2012

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 WH&S Act 2012 (Section 8) states that the employer must ensure the health, safety and welfare at work of all the employees of the employer. (C) Copyright Romi Sharma 20124

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 Committee of management  Owner  Local government  Board of directors  Non-government organisation, such as church groups, community organisations etc. (C) Copyright Romi Sharma 20126

 An employer must ensure that personnel's (other than employees of the employer) are not exposed to risks to their health or safety arising from the conduct of the employer’s undertaking while they are at the employers place of work.  In early childhood services people other than the employees are: 7(C) Copyright Romi Sharma 2012

 Children  Parents  Visitors/students, trainees etc.  People undertaking work on the premises (C) Copyright Romi Sharma 20128

 (Section 9) of the above Act states an employee also has a duty of care (Section 20) to take responsibility for the health and safety of people who are at the place of work and may be affected by the employees acts or omissions. 9(C) Copyright Romi Sharma 2012

◦ Co-workers ◦ Children ◦ Parents ◦ Visitors/students and trainees. ◦ Contracted workers 10(C) Copyright Romi Sharma 2012

◦ That under (Section 9) of the Act services contact the NSW WorkCover to obtain a copy of the following documents in order to assist them with the implementation of the WH&S in your centres. ◦ 11(C) Copyright Romi Sharma 2012

 A safe workplace and safe ways of working  Equipment, tools and machinery in a safe condition  Safe and hygienic facilities, including toilets, eating areas and first aid provisions  Information, training & supervision to all workers  A process for consultation with all employees to keep them informed & involved in decisions that may affect their health & safety  Processes for identifying hazards, assessing risks and controlling risks. (C) Copyright Romi Sharma

1. Responsibility for workplace safety 2. Plan to work safely 3. Involve employees 4. Develop procedures(Risk Management At Work) 5. Inform and train employees 6. Monitor and review 7. (C) Copyright Romi Sharma

 Find out the WH&S requirements that apply to the service  Develop a policy for the service  Who is responsible or be nominated and trained  This would provide the service clear guidelines to put the process in place to be implemented. (C) Copyright Romi Sharma

 Thinking about what activities happen in the work place  Identify the tasks and the procedures that will control the risks with reference to the activities  This assists the service to plan safely into each activity. (C) Copyright Romi Sharma

 Review the policies and make sure that the policies are being implemented correctly  On-going consultation with the employees for their individual/group contributions for further decision making  Display health and safety information in the workplace (C) Copyright Romi Sharma

 It is designed to assist with the process of identifying the hazards in the workplace and assessing any risks to health and safety associated with them.  See WorkCover’s Guide to Risk at work for assistace. (C) Copyright Romi Sharma

 Refer to step 3 & 4 to inform the employees about the hazards in their job and workplace.  Refer to the outcomes of the previous steps match it to the safe work procedures which than can be used as a training tool/base.  Inform the new staff members (C) Copyright Romi Sharma

 This actually assists you to be aware of legislative changes if any and add them to your processes.  DON’T STOP THERE as health and safety is an On-going process. (C) Copyright Romi Sharma