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Safety Terminology Checklist

(OHS) Occupational Health and Safety– all matters related to workplace health and safety
(e.g. hazards, risks, communication issues).

Regulations – laws that support the OHS Act. Regulations are usually hazard-specific – that is,
they make detailed requirements of employers to manage specific hazards such as Noise or
Manual Handling.

Review Activity
10 mins
1. Explain why we need legislation for health and safety in workplaces?
 The legislation is designed to protect the health and safety of workers, whether they are
full-time, part-time, casual or temporary.

3. What are the main responsibilities an employer has for workplace health and safety?
An employer must:
 Provide and maintain a safe work environment.
 Provide and maintain plant, equipment and substances in a safe condition.
 Consult with workers and their representatives.
 Provide adequate facilities such as toilets and meal areas.
 Provide information, instruction, supervision and training.
 Notify incidents, accidents and dangerous occurrences to the Family, Hospital,
Government or other responsible body.

4. What are the important arrangements employers must have in place to deal with
emergencies?
 First aid facilities and trained first aiders.
 Fire wardens.
 An emergency plan, emergency evacuation procedures and training for all workers to
ensure they know the emergency arrangements – this includes evacuation drills.
 Alarm signals and fire extinguishers.

5. What are some of the main responsibilities an employee has for workplace health and
safety?
An employee must:
 Follow reasonable instructions for health and safety.
 Work safely and wear protective equipment as required.
 Not put themselves, their co-workers or any other person at risk.
 Ensure they are not affected by drugs, alcohol or otherwise impaired.

What are Hazards and how can we identify them in school?

Ask these questions:


1. What is a hazard?
 A hazard is anything that has the potential to cause injury or illness.

2. Can you name at least four workplace hazards?


 Common workplace hazards include:
2.1 manual handling
2.2 plant (machinery and equipment)
2.3 electricity
2.4 hazardous substances
2.5 noise
2.6 workplace harassment.

3. How can workplace hazards be controlled?



3.1 Hazards must first be identified.
3.2 Then the risks must be assessed in order to prioritize them
3.3 So the most potentially dangerous hazards can be dealt with first.

4. What is the hierarchy of risk control?


This is used to put possible actions to control risks into an order of priority, from ‘most
effective’ to ‘least effective’:

4.1 Elimination: remove the hazard altogether.


4.2 Substitution: replace the hazard with something less dangerous (e.g. using less hazardous
chemicals that will do a cleaning job just as well).
4.3 Engineering: make physical changes to safeguard the hazard (e.g. fitting guards to
dangerous machines).
4.4 Use administrative controls: provide instruction and training, ‘rotate’ jobs, and establish
safe working procedures.
4.5 Use personal protective equipment (PPE): such as safety boots, glasses, hearing
protection.

NB: These risk controls will often be used in combination, e.g. engineering controls will rarely
be enough without the use of administrative controls such as training, and perhaps PPE as well.

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