OCCUPATION HEALTH &SAFETY

OCCUPATION HEALTH &SAFETY

Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) is the prevention of disease and injury caused by workplace

Responsibilities Senior Executive, Deans and Directors • Members of the senior executive, deans and directors are responsible for ensuring adequate • budgetary provision is made for OHS programs and initiatives, which includes OHS training.

Management of Academic/Administrative Units Management of academic/administrative units are responsible for ensuring that staff, students and visitors: • Complete a University, faculty/divisional and local area OHS induction; • Attend essential and recommended OHS training determined by training needs analysis; • Have up-to-date training records maintained in accordance with UOW Records Management Policy.

Supervisors • Supervisors are responsible for identifying training needs of staff and students under their supervision • and ensuring that the training is conducted and attended.

Staff and Students • All staff and students must ensure that they attend OHS training relevant to their work and study as • directed by their supervisor.

Health and safety in the workplace is about preventing work-related injury and disease, and designing an environment that promotes well-being for everyone at work: ensure that the way work is done is safe and does not affect employees’ health

ensure that tools, equipment and machinery are safe and are kept safe • ensure that ways of storing, transporting or working with dangerous substances is safe and does not damage employees’ health

provide employees with the information, instruction and training they need to do their job safely and without damaging their health • consult with employees about health and safety in the workplace • monitor the work place regularly and keep a record of what is found during the checks

Fire • Fire occur regularly and cause serious harm, security problem occur rarely will cause harm, hazard of untidy pathway and classes occur rarely that will cause harm , unmanaged equipment, occurs rarely that will cause harm(for losing )

OHS records • When we try to control hazard, we would think that if it can be eliminated firstly. If not, we should consider if it can be isolated, otherwise if it can be minimized. If the method we use even could not make the hazard has smaller impacted on harm, it would be called inadequacies, which we need to report to the organizational response. OHS records : kept so that they can be readily located and retrieved; • periodically reviewed; • approved for adequacy by responsible persons;

Workers' rights under the OSH Act • Workers are entitled to work conditions that do not pose a risk of serious harm. To help assure a safe and healthful workplace, OSHA also provides workers with the right to: • Ask OSHA to inspect their workplace; • Use their rights under the law without retaliation and discrimination;

Receive information and training about hazards, methods to prevent harm, and the OSHA standards that apply to their workplace. The training must be in a language you can understand; • Get copies of test results done to find hazards in the workplace; • Review records of work-related injuries and illnesses; • Get copies of their medical records;

Not covered by the OSH Act: 1.Self-employed; 2.Immediate family members of farm employers that do not employ outside employees;

Methods for identifying hazards: • The first step in control of a hazard is to identify and list them. There are many methods which are useful for identifying hazards, including • injury and illness records - review your workers’ compensation data and check the incidence, mechanism and agency of injury, and the cost to the organisation. These statistics can be analysed to alert the organisation to the presence of hazards

• doing walk-through surveys, inspections or safety audits in the workplace to evaluate the organisation’s health and safety system • considering OHS implications when analysing work processes • investigating workplace incidents and ‘near hits’ reports - in some cases there may be more than one hazard contributing to an incident

• staying informed on trends and developments in workplace health and safety, for example via the internet or OHS publications • reviewing the potential impact of new work practices or equipment introduced into the workplace in line with legislative requirements

getting feedback from employees can often provide valuable information about hazards, because they have hands-on experience in their work area consulting with employees, health and safety representatives and OHS Committee members • benchmarking against or liaising with similar workplace

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OCCUPATION HEALTH &SAFETY