BSBWHS311 Topic Four Review

BSBWHS311 Topic Four Review

By Barney Sinclair

Open Ended

What are the FOUR steps in the hazard management process?

​The steps in the hazard management process are:

• Hazard identification

• Risk assessment

• Risk control

• Follow-up action

Multiple Choice

What must you do if you identify a workplace hazard?

• Nothing

• Report the issue immediately to the police

• Report the issue immediately to your supervisor/manager etc

• Change jobs

• ​If you identify a workplace hazard, you must report the issue immediately to your supervisor, line manager or specialist WHS person as quickly as possible

• Reporting hazards or potential incidents may require you to:

1. Verbally notify your supervisor, line manager or WHS person

2. Complete a formal hazard report form and submit the form to the relevant person.

Multiple Choice

What is the best way to control a hazard?

• Administration Controls

• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

• Substitute the hazard for something else that is safer

• Eliminate the hazard completely

​The best way to control a hazard is to eliminate it!!

Open Ended

What is the hierarchy of controls? Can you remember the FIVE controls?

Open Ended

What is the final step of the risk management process?

Respond to inadequate controls

​•The final step of the risk management process is to monitor and review the controls.

•Once a risk control has been introduced into work operations, it must be reviewed and, where necessary, revised to make the necessary improvements.

​Consultation is essential in evaluation the effectiveness of a risk control measure and finding inadequacies in risk controls.

Open Ended

What are some questions we could ask workers when consulting with them about the effectiveness of existing control measures?

​Questions to ask workers as part of consultation processes:

• Are the controls working effectively?

• Have the controls introduced any new problems?

• Have all the hazards been identified?

• Have the new work methods made the job safer?

• Are people following the new procedures?

• Has sufficient instruction and training been provided?

• Is the likelihood of consequences reducing over time?

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