BSBWHS521

Ensure a safe workplace for a work area

Learner Assessment

Assessment Task 1 – Project #1

·         Read the assessment carefully before commencing.

·         This is an open book written and practical demonstration assessmentand will be conducted at the Institute’s Campus – 355 Spencer Street West Melbourne.

·         Your Assessor will use the assessment criteria in this document and will provide feedback / comment.

·         You must answer ALL the questions correctly in the assessment tasks in your own words and own handwriting.

·         Timeframe for this assessment task is 3 hours.

·         Your Trainer / Assessor will inform you of the due date for this assessment task.

·         Your Assessor will grade as either S – Satisfactory or NS – Not Satisfactory for the assessment. In all cases your Assessor will provide you with feedback.

·         Only when all assessment tasks have been graded as S – Satisfactory you will be deemed C – Competent in the final result of the unit of competency; if you do not satisfactorily complete all the assessment tasks you will be deemed NYC – Not Yet Competent.

·         The appeal is required to be submitted in writing with relevant evidence documentation provided.

·         The Institute will respond within 3 working days of the receipt of appeal to confirm it has been received.

·         The Institute will review the appeal and inform student of the outcome within 10 working days of the receipt of appeal.

·         The outcome will outline information on student’s next steps including process for further appeal process.

·         Students can make a request for reasonable adjustment during their enrolment.

·         Each case is considered individually and the all relevant circumstances are considered in making the decision

·         The Institute reserves the right, after the review of the needs of the student with a disability, to not provide services that would impose unjustifiable hardship upon the Institute or the activities provided during the course of operations.

·         The range of reasonable adjustments made may include (but not limited to):

• the use or loan of adaptive/assistive technology or equipment for use by people with a disability or illness to enable them to undertake their training/assessment in a fair and equitable manner (e.g. seating, personal computer access)

• alternative methods of assessment (e.g. verbal assessment, practical demonstration)

• individual conditions of assessment (e.g. seating arrangements, additional 10 minutes per hour, toilet/rest/exercise breaks, bite sized food/drink)

• accessible learning formats (e.g. large print materials, coloured exam paper)

• provision of a scribe

• referral to additional services.

·         If the evidence is graded as NS – Not Satisfactory you will be required to re-submit the evidence. In this case, you will be provided with clear and constructive feedback based on the assessment decision so that they can improve your skills / knowledge prior to reassessment.

·         Where a ‘NS – Not Satisfactory’ judgement is made, you will be given guidance on steps to take to improve your performance and provided the opportunity to resubmit evidence to demonstrate competence. The assessor will determine and discuss the reasons for NS – Not Satisfactory on any of the criteria and will assess you through a different method of assessment e.g. verbal/oral questioning, problem solving exercises.

·         You will be notified within 10 working days of undertaking an assessment of your result in achieving competency

o   If a student does not complete the assessment, they should notify their trainer as to why they did not complete the assessment and if due to illness, a medical certificate must be produced and apply for Special Consideration in accordance to MITP91 Special Consideration Policy and Procedure.

o   In the above scenario, student will be given an opportunity for reassessment within 5 working days with no reassessment fee charged.

o   Students who are deemed to be Not Yet Competent (NYC) will be provided with information identifying the areas in which they failed to achieve competency. Students will then have the opportunity to repeat the assessment task and relevant reassessment fees will apply for the unit.

o   If a student is deemed NYC in the reassessment, then the student is required to reenrol for the entire unit of competency and relevant reenrolment fees will apply for the unit.

Plagiarism, Collusion and Cheating

Plagiarism means: taking someone’s words, ideas, work or other materials and present them as your own.

Collusion means: understanding or agreement between two or more people to intentionally cooperate and gain an unfair advantage in assessment.

Cheating means: seeking to obtain an unfair advantage in an examination or assessment.

If a student is found to be cheating, plagiarising or colluding during their assessment, the student will immediately be deemed NS for the assessment task. The student will have to follow the reassessment process and relevant reassessment fees will apply for the unit.

o   If the student is found to be plagiarising, cheating or colluding again after the initial instance, the student will be deemed NYC for the entire unit of competency. The student will be required to reenrol for the entire unit of competency and relevant reenrolment fees will apply for the unit.

o   Any further instances of plagiarism, cheating or collusion will result in the suspension or cancellation of the student’s enrolment

o   The Institute has intervention strategies, including student support services available to enable students to complete qualification in the expected time frame. Students at risk of not completing within this time frame are identified as early as possible and an intervention strategy is put in place. All students are encouraged to speak to the trainer/assessor and/or Student Services Coordinator in regards to any issues about their course.

o   relevant workplace documentation and resources

o   case studies

o   interaction with other students for discussions

There is a performance and observation checklist for the tasks provided.

·         Completed written responses to all questions in the assessment task and completion of all tasks

Your assessor may seek additional information or clarification from you of questions that you may not have answered fully. There is a performance and observation checklist for the tasks provided.

STUDENT DECLARATION

Student to complete the below prior to commencing assessment

·         This assessment task is comprised of a project.

·         For this task, you will demonstrate the skills and knowledge required to establish and maintain a WHS management system.

·         Referring to the simulated business and scenario information provided in the Appendices of this task, you will plan and develop a WHS management system to assist the organisation to comply with WHS legislation. You will identify and use sources of expert advice to plan your system. You willcollect samples of documentation to support the WHS management system. You will then prepare a report outlining and explaining the system, duty holders, resources, and approval required.

·         You must assess the performance as per the performance criteria and checklist provided.

·         Your assessor will assess your work according to the given performance criteria/ performance checklist.

·         You may attach a separate sheet if required.

·         You must include the following particulars in the footer section of each page of the attached sheets:

o   Student ID or Student Name

o   Unit ID or Unit Code

o   Course ID or Course Code

o   Trainer and assessor name

o   Page numbers

·         You must staple the loose sheets together along with the cover page.

·         You must attach the loose sheets chronologically as per the page numbers.

·         Correction fluid and tape are not permitted. Please do any corrections by striking through the incorrect words with one or two lines and rewriting the correct words.

Australian Hardware has expanded rapidly to include 138 warehouse stores nationally. Unfortunately, one of the possible results of this rapid expansion is a lack of a national, consistent approach to WHS compliance.

The company does take seriously its legal and ethical obligations to provide a safe workplace; however, safety standards may be slipping. According to incomplete Australian Hardware records, last year, the Lost Time to Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) was 13.9. The current industry benchmark 10.1^[1].

Areas and types of injuries of particular concern include:

●      manual lifting of outdoor furniture and hardware goods in warehouses and in customer service areas

●      hazardous materials handling by forklift drivers, drivers and customer service staff.

In addition, a lack of systematic WHS recordkeeping has meant the organisation cannot be entirely sure of health and safety performance, nor can it be sure of WHS compliance.

The main needs of Australian Hardware with respect to the proposed WHS management system are:

●      legal compliance across jurisdictions

●      the safest possible workplace conditions for workers (objective: bring LTIFR and Injury Rate (IR) to 10% below national averages)

●      integration with all other Australian Hardware management systems, operations and corporate culture

●      to advertise and demonstrate Australian Hardware’s commitment to WHS.

Business structure:

ABN:

Business location:

Public company since 1982

4000000000

Australian Hardware is headquartered in Sydney, NSW. The business owns and operates 138 stores throughout Australia.

Date established:

Business owners:

26 January 1921

The Greenwright family retains a controlling interest in Australian Hardware. Holden Greenwright serves as both Chair of the Board of Directors and CEO.

Australian Hardware supplies hardware and home improvement products and provide expert advice and service to the Australian consumer market through its network of 138 stores/warehouses.

The Market

Target market

The market has been divided into three target markets or segments:

1.       home improvers

2.       DYIs

3.       tradespersons.

Marketing strategy

Australian Hardware takes a two-pronged strategic approach, characterised by product and service differentiation along with select targeted marketing activities.

The Future

Vision statement

Within five years, Australian Hardware will lead the hardware and home improvement market in Australia.

Australian Hardware’s strategic directions are to:

●      increase sales revenue and gross profit

●      maintain or increase market share

●      control direct and indirect operational costs

●      maintain superior product and service quality standards

●      establish Australian Hardware’s reputation as a socially and environmentally responsible company.

Management at the Wollongong Store are responsible for:

●      consultation with employees regarding health and safety and changes to legislation and/or working practices which may affect the workplace

●      providing and maintaining a safe and healthy environment for work

●      providing support, training, and supervision to employees to ensure a safe and healthy workplace

●      the provision of adequate resources for employees to meet health and safety management system targets.

Individual employees are responsible for:

●      following all workplace health and safety policies and procedures

●      ensuring that they report all potential and actual risks to managers/supervisors

●      taking care to protect their own health and safety and that of their colleagues at work

●      ensuring that their own, or others’, health and safety is not adversely affected by the consumption of drugs or alcohol

●      encouraging others to follow healthy and safe working practices in the workplace.

●      AS/NZS 4804:2001 Occupational health and safety management systems – general guidelines on principles, systems and supporting techniques.

The purpose of this policy is to ensure the purchase of resources is carried out consistently, fairly and transparently and in accordance with Australian Hardware requirements.

●      anti-discrimination legislation

●      Corporations Act 2001 (Cwlth)

●      A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax Administration) Act 1999 (Cwlth)

●      Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (Cwlth)

●      Fair Work Act 2009 (Cwlth)

●      work health and safety legislation.

Must seek approval from Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for amounts above $200,000.

Detailed services contract required.

Instructions for Students

You can view the following checklist as a guide for the areas and criteria that your assessor will be assessing you on. Please note that this checklist is for your assessor to complete only.

For example:

·         Explain features of system and proposed policies and procedures and how features will effect compliance and demonstrate commitment

●      Explain how WHS policy, for example, reflects commitment (after required adaptation)?

●      Adapt Wollongong WHS policy to apply nationally?

For example:

●      Refer to legislation, codes of practice, etc. in report, such as:

○     WHS Act

○     how to manage work health and safety risks codes of practice?

●      Define PCBU duty of care (Australian Hardware), for example:

○     as per WHS Act (Section 19–28)

○     duty to consult with workers and representatives
(Sections 46–49)?

●      Define officers’ duty of care (managers, team leaders) as per WHS Act (Section 27)?

●      Define workers’ duty of care as per WHS Act (Section 28)?

●      Include reference in report to need for recordkeeping procedures to capture enough information to, for example:

○     demonstrate how decisions are made to control WHS risks

○     target training to address hazards

○     provide basis for safe work procedures

○     review risks?

●      Include budget with all costs associated with set up and running of WHSMS for one year in portfolio?

●      Keep estimated costs within approved budget of $1 million?

●      Include name of designated person to approve expense as per Australian Hardware procurement policy on estimated budget?

q    Not Satisfactory

Assessment Task 1

Satisfactory (S) ☐ or Not Satisfactory (NS) ☐