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    This document provides a classroom activity on health and safety laws in Victoria, Australia. It includes links to resources from WorkSafe Victoria on relevant Acts, Regulations, and Compliance Codes. It lists 6 short answer questions for students to complete individually or with partners about key aspects of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 and Regulations 2007. The questions cover what workplaces are covered by the laws, the importance of consultation, what Compliance Codes are and what they cover, examples of hazards addressed in the Regulations, responsibilities of employees under the Act, and what "reasonably practicable" means in terms of a person's duty of care.

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    This document provides a classroom activity on health and safety laws in Victoria, Australia. It includes links to resources from WorkSafe Victoria on relevant Acts, Regulations, and Compliance Codes. It lists 6 short answer questions for students to complete individually or with partners about key aspects of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 and Regulations 2007. The questions cover what workplaces are covered by the laws, the importance of consultation, what Compliance Codes are and what they cover, examples of hazards addressed in the Regulations, responsibilities of employees under the Act, and what "reasonably practicable" means in terms of a person's duty of care.

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    This document provides a classroom activity on health and safety laws in Victoria, Australia. It includes links to resources from WorkSafe Victoria on relevant Acts, Regulations, and Compliance Codes. It lists 6 short answer questions for students to complete individually or with partners about key aspects of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 and Regulations 2007. The questions cover what workplaces are covered by the laws, the importance of consultation, what Compliance Codes are and what they cover, examples of hazards addressed in the Regulations, responsibilities of employees under the Act, and what "reasonably practicable" means in terms of a person's duty of care.

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    Health Safety Laws Short Answer Exercise

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    This document provides a classroom activity on health and safety laws in Victoria, Australia. It includes links to resources from WorkSafe Victoria on relevant Acts, Regulations, and Compliance Codes. It lists 6 short answer questions for students to complete individually or with partners about key aspects of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 and Regulations 2007. The questions cover what workplaces are covered by the laws, the importance of consultation, what Compliance Codes are and what they cover, examples of hazards addressed in the Regulations, responsibilities of employees under the Act, and what "reasonably practicable" means in terms of a person's duty of care.

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    Classroom Activity

    Health and Safety Laws


    Short Answer Exercise
    Resources:
    safe@work General Module:
    http://www.education.vic.gov.au/safe@work/modules/general/laws.asp

    WorkSafe Victoria provides useful information about Acts and Regulations here:
    http://www.workcover.vic.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/WorkSafe/Home/Laws+and+Reg
    ulations/Acts+and+Regulations/
    and about Compliance Codes here:
    http://www.workcover.vic.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/WorkSafe/Home/Laws+and+Reg
    ulations/Occupational+Health+and+Safety/Compliance+Codes/D_Compliance+Codes

    Task:
    Work individually or with a partner and complete the six questions below:

    1. What sorts of workplaces are covered by the Occupational Health and Safety Act
    2004 (the ‘OHS Act’)?

    Offices, hospitals, schools, factories, construction sites, farms and any place an
    employee and self employee works/

    2. Why is consultation an important part of Victoria’s health and safety laws?


    Consultation in the act is important because discussion between representatives and
    health and safety committees can allow to identify hazards in the workplace and to
    generate effective OHS plans for safety control measures.

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    Health and Safety Laws
    Short Answer Exercise
    3. What are Compliance Codes? What sort of things do they cover?
    Compliance codes are practical guidance to persons who have a duty or obligation
    under the act. May cover control documentations.

    4. List five of the hazards covered by Victoria’s Occupational Health and Safety
    Regulations 2007?
    Exposure to substances, collapse of failure of excavation, fall from heights,
    Collapse or partial collapse of building or structure, an implosion, explosion or fire.

    5. Select one group of people who have specific responsibilities under the OHS Act.
    What are their responsibilities?
    Employees- when at work must take reasonable for their own health and safety, take
    reasonable care of the health and safety of others who may be affected by the
    employees acts at a workplace.

    6. The OHS Act says that a person’s responsibility (or duty of care) applies only as far
    as is ‘reasonably practicable’. What does this mean?
    Reasonably practicable means the degree of risk for the particular situation balanced
    against the time, trouble, cost and physical difficulty of taking measures to avoid the
    risk.

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