Managing Work Health and Safety, WHS, organizations, work place, workers, risk assessment, risk management
WHS stands for Work Health and Safety. Its main aim is to give organizations great ideas on how to make the work places conducive for the workers and eliminate any imminent danger that the workers are likely to be exposed to while working. It is helpful in preventing disasters from occurring at work places by conducting risk assessment exercises and coming up with the procedures that need to be followed at work places in order to make those places safe for the employees. It also develops and helps organizations to develop policies that would be used to run the organization in terms of risk management.
[...] The Wollongong workers and heir representatives will also meet with the consultant to air their concerns as pertains the safety in their work places. The petrol.turpentine poisons and paints are well stored because they are kept away from fire and air. This is because they catch fire easily. The consultant will also meet with the storekeeper to develop methods on how to record actions which are taken to control WHS risks. References Murray, A. (2014), WHS policies and procedures. Available at: http://eHOW.com. [Accessed on September 2014]. [...]
[...] The employee also in the course of doing their work can identify hazards. If an incident takes place for instance, a machine failing to function, emitting abnormal smoke is indications of an imminent hazard. Other ways of hazard identification are: carrying out inspections in order t o check whether things are running as expected and also carrying out audits on how things are running. Job safety analyses are also needed to be carried out occasionally or as the need arise (Safework, 2014). [...]
[...] Philips. (2012), WHS risk management. Available at: http://hazards and risk management. [Accessed on September 2014]. Employment toolkit (2014), Available at: http://risks in employment. [Accessed on September 2014]. WHS document (2014), Available at: http://safety policies. [Accessed on September 2014]. Safety policies (2001), Retrieved from occupational safety solutions. [...]
[...] Managing WHS Student's Name University Affiliation Managing WHS WHS stands for Work Health and Safety. Its main aim is to give organizations great ideas on how to make the work places conducive for the workers and eliminate any imminent danger that the workers are likely to be exposed to while working. It is helpful in preventing disasters from occurring at work places by conducting risk assessment exercises and coming up with the procedures that need to be followed at work places in order to make those places safe for the employees. [...]
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