PPMWHS501Manage work health and safety processes

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What an assessment for PPMWHS501 must cover

43 assessable components: 5 elements (21 performance criteria), 5 performance evidence and 13 knowledge evidence requirements, plus 4 foundation skills. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.

Elements & performance criteria

1 Manage work health and safety information and records

  • 1.1Identify and access relevant workplace health and safety legislation, standards, codes of practice, compliance codes, organisational procedures, guidance material and other sources of information and evaluate their relevance to pulp and paper manufacturing work context
  • 1.2Collect and collate and provide information on workplace health and safety requirements, trends and risk controls
  • 1.3Implement and monitor processes to ensure the accurate completion, collection and storage of workplace health and safety records

2 Manage work health and safety participative processes

  • 2.1Monitor participative processes to ensure compliance with legislative requirements and organisational procedures
  • 2.2Evaluate information provided to employees to ensure its format is readily accessible and understandable
  • 2.3Implement and monitor processes to ensure that work group members have an opportunity, either directly or through their representative, to contribute to decisions that may affect their health and safety
  • 2.4Evaluate processes for addressing workplace health and safety issues to ensure prompt resolution of issues raised through consultation
  • 2.5Provide information about the outcomes of consultations in a format readily accessible to employers

3 Manage work health and safety risk management processes

  • 3.1Review processes for hazard, incident and injury reporting and investigation to ensure compliance with legislative requirements and to inform future prevention strategies
  • 3.2Monitor processes to ensure that hazard identification and risk assessments occur
  • 3.3Check and monitor risk controls and hazard specific procedures to ensure consistency with the hierarchy of risk control and support compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements
  • 3.4Identify and address any workplace health and safety implications of either proposed or implemented changes to the workplace, work processes or organisation of work
  • 3.5Recognise limits of own professional expertise and consult expert advisors as required

4 Manage work health and safety training program

  • 4.1Undertake workplace health and safety training needs assessment for work group members that takes account of existing skills of work group members and risk control requirements
  • 4.2Implement and monitor training programs to ensure identified workplace health and safety training requirements are addressed
  • 4.3Implement and monitor processes to ensure that all new employees receive workplace health and safety induction
  • 4.4Access and consult workplace health and safety and training specialists as required, in the development and implementation of the workplace health and safety training program

5 Manage work health and safety continuous improvement process

  • 5.1Consider input from individuals and work group in identifying and implementing workplace health and safety improvement
  • 5.2Determine workplace health and safety priorities in consultation with appropriate managers and stakeholders
  • 5.3Develop workplace health and safety action plans, taking account of priorities and training needs
  • 5.4Monitor achievements against the workplace health and safety plans and update plans as required

Performance evidence

  • identified the required workplace health and safety legal requirements for the pulp or paper manufacturing area
  • reviewed and monitored workplace health and safety hazard identification and risk management processes to ensure consistency with legal requirements
  • monitored work group members to ensure that they complied with workplace health and safety requirements
  • managed a participative process for work group members, and identified how issues raised by members will be addressed
  • implemented at least one workplace health and safety induction or training program for work group members.

Knowledge evidence

  • sources of information on workplace health and safety legislation, standards, compliance codes and guidance material relevant to the pulp and paper manufacturing industry
  • legal and regulatory requirements and organisational procedures for workplace health and safety processes, including:
  • managing workplace health and safety information, records and reporting
  • managing consultation and participative opportunities and incident investigation
  • undertaking workplace health and safety training needs assessment
  • managing workplace health and safety employee induction and training
  • managing workplace health and safety risk
  • developing a workplace health and safety action plan
  • common pulp and paper industry workplace hazards, including chemicals, bodily fluids, noise, manual handling, work postures, underfoot hazards, slips and trips, moving parts of machinery, mobile plant, fatigue, stress, bullying and occupational violence
  • techniques and procedures for identifying and addressing hazard and risk in the work environment, including:
  • hazard identification procedures
  • principles of risk assessment
  • the hierarchy of control and its application.

Foundation skills

  • Learning: Assess own capabilities for interpreting and applying workplace health and safety information and procedures
  • Oral communication: Adjust language and communication style to communicate with personnel in the work teams, management and expert advisers about workplace safety
  • Reading: Interpret workplace health and safety legislation, standards, guidance material and organisational procedures
  • Writing: Complete workplace records accurately and legibly, using correct, clear language and industry terminology

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What does an assessment tool for PPMWHS501 need to cover?

To satisfy the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence, an assessment for PPMWHS501 needs to address all 43 unit components: 5 elements with 21 performance criteria, 5 performance evidence requirements, 13 knowledge evidence requirements, and the foundation skills. A coverage matrix mapping each question and task to these components is what an auditor looks for.

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