Lifting weights of more than 4.5kg while seated Lifting weights above the range of 16-20kg (weights over 55kgs should not be lifted without mechanical assistance or team lifting) Pushing, pulling and sliding objects that are difficult to move.

Young workers under the age of 18 years of age should not be required to lift, lower or carry more than 16kg without mechanical or other assistance.

Safe Lifting Technique

Correct lifting procedures are to be used at all times. There are 7 positive steps to follow to minimise the risks of

Injury when lifting.

1. PREPARATION

The first step in any lifting operation is preparation. Plan how you will carry out the lift and clear away any obstacles. By visualizing the lift, you will automatically make your stomach muscles contract. These

Muscles brace your back and will significantly contribute to injury prevention.

2. SIZE UP THE LOAD

By moving the load sideways and forwards you will be able to ascertain whether it is within your capacity. Always imagine that the object you are about to lift is much heavier than it actually is.

3. PROPER FOOT POSITION

As a general rule the front foot should be beside the object. The back foot should be slightly behind and be hip width from the front foot. This achieves a stable base and allows for even distribution of weight.

4. PROPER HOLD

Ideally with the proper hold the hands should be diagonally opposite for security and comfort. Use the full length of the fingers and where possible the palms to avoid fatigue.

5. BEND THE KNEES

Bend your knees to get down to the load and use the legs to lift it. This way thigh and leg muscles are used and these are the strongest part of your body (your back muscles are only for bracing).

6. STRAIGHT BACK

Keep your back as near to straight as possible, raise your head, keeping your chin in. This will keep your spine straight and enable you to see where you are going.

7. STRAIGHT BACK

During the lift, keep the arms as straight as possible, and the elbows into the side. Don’t change your grip while carrying and Directly face the spot on which the load will rest. Never combine lifting with the twisting of your body. If you must turn, do it by moving your feet. Twisting causes the worst type of back injuries.

Always remember that regardless of the shape of the object, the principles of safe lifting remain the same. When setting down objects the reverse procedure to lifting should be applied.

By following these simple steps you will significantly reduce the risk of injury when lifting.

The golden rule when lifting is, know your limitations.

The essential lifting message is that the more you bend your knees, the less you use your back.

Team lifting

Whenever team lifting is used, it is essential to co-ordinate and carefully plan the lift. When organising a lift, ensure:

• An adequate number of employees are chosen to help in the lift.

• Team members are of similar height.

• One person is appointed “leader” of the team to perform the lift.

• There is enough area for the team members to manoeuvre as a group.

• Team members know their roles and responsibilities.

• Training in team lifting has been provided and the lift is rehearsed.

• Emergency procedures are in place.

Handling and Use of Hazardous Material

A. Storage

All hazardous material must be stored in appropriate cabinets, flammable material storage cabinets etc. until use and returned for safekeeping after use. Containers of hazardous materials should not be left on bench tops when not in use.

B. MSDS Information

1.It is important that anyone using hazardous material read the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) associated with the hazardous material before its use.

2.Anyone handling or using hazardous material shall use personal protective equipment as noted in the MSDS or as indicated in the Amherst College Chemical Hygiene Plan.

C. Disposal of Empty Hazardous Material Containers

1. If the entire contents of a hazardous material container are consumed, the empty container shall be wanded to read the bar code to decrement the quantity in the CIS.

2.Empty containers may be discarded into a "Glass Only" box or a wastebasket as appropriate. A container is considered empty if the contents have been removed by the normal procedure for that hazardous material, pouring, scooping, etc.

D. Hazardous Material on hand without Future Use

Any hazardous material which is deemed unacceptable for future use or is identified as excess material without future need, will be declared hazardous waste by attachment of the appropriate hazardous waste label and managed in accordance with the Amherst College Hazardous Waste Management Policy.

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Health Safety and Environment

Overview

At Australian Hardware we are safe, disciplined and reliable. We act on our responsibilities to identify and remove potential and recognized risk to a healthy and safe workplace.

Australian Hardware Limited (Australian Hardware) values its employees, contractors, customers and the Environment and communities in which we operate and live. We are committed with complying with Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) laws and the voluntary standards to which our organization subscribes.

The policy is publicly available and communicated throughout the business.

Purpose

This policy sets out Australian Hardware’s commitment to providing a safe, healthy environment and experience for its employees, contractors, consultants and visitors. It sets out the minimum requirements to ensure compliance with HSE legislation and related codes of practice and industry standards.

Scope

This policy applies to all Australian Hardware employees, visitors, consultants, contractors, employees of contractors and consultants, persons employed through labor hire agencies and volunteers.

Policy

Australian Hardware’s integrated HSE Management System provides the framework for HSE management and continual improvement throughout all our businesses, products and activities from design, construction and operation. Through the implementation of our HSE Management System Australian Hardware is committed to the following principles:

· The maintenance of a safe environment and safe workplaces;

· The prevention of pollution;

· Strong leadership and accountability in framing and driving desirable HSE outcomes;

· Ongoing evaluation of compliance with HSE laws and requirements;

· Adopting ecologically sustainable development principles;

· Consultation on issues that may affect an individual’s health and safety;

· Proactively identifying and managing HSE risks, and implementing effective controls and systems of work;

· Effective management of the processes around land access and statutory approvals;

· Reducing our energy, water and natural resources consumption and waste generation;

· Identification and development of strong risk controls;

· Integrating HSE in the planning, design, importing and manufacture of goods;

· Providing all necessary supervision, training, instruction, equipment and information to employees and visitors to our workplaces;

· Setting and achieving HSE objectives, targets and improvement plans;

· Measuring and evaluating our HSE performance through regular audits, inspections and internal reporting;

· Recognizing outstanding HSE performance;

· Seeking and respecting community views;

· Maintenance of certification to AS/NZ 14001, AS/NZ 4801 and BS OHSAS 18001.

Roles and Responsibilities

All employees, contractors and visitors are accountable for behaving in a safe and environmentally responsible manner at all times. Every employee, contractor, and visitor has a personal responsibility to comply with this policy and to notify their manager or guide if there is a compliance issue or question.

It is the responsibility of the Australian Hardware’s Executive Management to ensure sufficient resources are available to implement this policy.

Managers are responsible for:

· Ensuring that employees are provided adequate training, information and supervision to perform their jobs safely and have the appropriate equipment.

· Complying with relevant HSE legislation

· Ensuring that any unsafe practice is eliminated

· The day-to-day management of environmental issues that directly impact there are of responsibility

· Encouraging environmental awareness within their area of responsibility

Employees, consultants and contractors are responsible for:

· Performing their work in a safe manner;

· Taking reasonable care that their acts do not adversely affect the health and safety of themselves, others or the environment in which we operate;

· Reporting any incidents, accidents or hazards.

· Undertaking their day to day work in compliance with this policy and any other HSE legislation; and

· Ensuring that any visitors that they are responsible for are advised of the requirements of this policy.

· If you become aware of any actual or possible non-compliance with this policy, you should

3. WHS management system to propose for Australian Hardware.

Under Work Health and Safety (WHS) legislation, persons conducting a business or undertaking are required to provide information, instruction, training and supervision to ensure workers’ safety. They also have an obligation to inform any person at the workplace who may be exposed to a risk.

Information, instruction, training and supervision must be provided on a regular basis. Make sure training systems are flexible to accommodate different schedules, needs and skill levels. Shift workers, part-time and casual workers must not be overlooked in the scheduling of training. Volunteers are also now defined in the legislation as "workers" so their needs must be included too.

You should provide information, instruction and training in a variety of ways, such as:

induction or orientation training

· OHS training – mandatory, ongoing and refresher

· on the job training including mentoring and peer support

· documented safe work procedures

· documented care plans

· individual supervision

· group supervision

· team meetings

· client case conferences, service reviews

· newsletters, safety events, bulletins, emails, posters

· attach pertinent information on timesheets

WHS training

WHS training can be included as part of other training or be WHS specific. It must be provided regularly and include refreshers. You should consult with your workers about the information and training necessary to undertake their work safely. You should also make sure that the information is accessible and easily understood.

Examples of WHS training provided by HACC service providers include:

· WHS risk management

· first aid

· emergency procedures/fire safety

· manual handling

· working alone and/or in isolation

· safe home visiting

· infection control

· vehicle safety

· slips, trips and falls

· safe food handling

· harassment and bullying

· critical incident management

All training should be documented with records of training maintained. This can include participant lists, copies of certificates, course agenda, evaluation forms, etc. Consider creating a training calendar each year and identifying support workers who would benefit from specific topics.

In the Home and Community Care (HACC) sector, formal training also occurs as part of the competencies for qualifications under the Community Services Training Package. The different qualifications reflect various responsibilities and tasks, and each qualification has specific WHS units of competency.

On the job training

New workers

Support workers new to their role usually require a combination of off, and on-the-job training. Some home care organisations ‘buddy’ a new support worker with an experienced support worker for a period of time allowing them to:

· ask questions of someone who does the job they will be doing

· build confidence in their role before working independently in clients’ homes

· observe the organisation’s policies and procedures in action

· obtain feedback in a non-threatening manner about their own performance.

When selecting a ‘buddy’ for a new support worker you should consider the work history and experience of the buddy. Make sure it matches with the work the new support worker will be doing. Also consider ethnicity and language.

During the buddy phase, the new support worker should be closely monitored by their supervisor, and have regular contact to ensure any issues are identified and dealt with in a timely manner.

Consider whether new support workers must be certified competent in certain tasks prior to working alone and ensure specific training in these tasks is included as part of the buddy phase.

Existing workers

Existing support workers may also require on the job training when a:

· client has special needs that require specific training;

· client’s circumstances have changed;

· new piece of equipment or procedure is introduced that the support worker has not experienced.

Mentoring and peer support

It is important that support workers have the opportunity to meet with other support workers on a regular basis to facilitate information sharing. Many organisations conduct a regular team meeting to do this, whilst others use a peer mentoring system to provide effective on the job training.

An example of a Manual Handling Mentor Program is available here.

Training needs analysis

You need to actively consider the WHS training needs of your workers. Consider:

· What do they need to know to do their job safely?

· How often do they need to be reminded of policies, procedures and techniques?

· Have circumstances changed which may necessitate training e.g. change to client and/or support worker physical condition?

· Is the worker competent at doing their job safely?

· Have there been incidents which highlight the need for training?

· What is the support workers qualifications and experience?

· What are the support worker’s career aspirations?

· Do I need to train a support worker to be ready to take over from another?

For some high risk activities, consider whether formal competency assessment should be undertaken. This entails having a step by step task description and observing the support worker doing the task. Are they doing it in the correct manner? If not, is further training needed? Or do our procedures need updating?

Consider how often support workers should be assessed for competency.

4: Australian Hardware (Wollongong) WHS policy and procedures

Purpose

The purpose of this policy is to ensure that work is carried out safely in accordance with Australian Hardware’s ethical and legal obligations to provide and maintain a safe workplace. Australian Hardware recognises its responsibility to provide a healthy and safe working environment for employees, contractors, clients and visitors. Australian Hardware is committed to the continued wellbeing of its employees and to ensuring that all employees are safe from injury and health risks while undertaking work-related duties, including home-based work.

Scope

The scope of this policy covers all employees and contractors of Australian Hardware – Wollongong Store.

Responsibility

Responsibility for the implementation of this policy rests with employees and management of Australian Hardware with responsibility for providing a safe place of work.

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.

Relevant legislation/standards

● Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (NSW)

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

Work Health and Safety

Name of Act

This Act is the Work Health and Safety Act 2011.

Commencement

This Act commences on 1 January 2012 or on such later day as may be appointed by proclamation before 1 January 2012.

5. evelop a report on the proposed WHSMS.

Australian Hardware

Work Health and Safety Act 2011

The Work Health and Safety Act 2011 provides a framework to protect the health, safety and welfare of all workers at work. It also protects the health and safety of all other people who might be affected by the work.

All workers are protected by the WHS Act. This includes employees, contractors, subcontractors, outworkers, apprentices and trainees, work experience students, volunteers and employers who perform work. The WHS Act also provides protection for the general public so that their health and safety is not placed at risk by work activities.

The WHS Act places the primary health and safety duty on a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU), who must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety of workers at the workplace. Duties are also placed on officers of a PCBU, workers and other persons at a workplace.

The WHS Act also sets out the requirements for the following:

incident notification
consultation with workers
issue resolution
inspector powers and functions
Offences and penalties.

Management or control of workplaces

Effective management or control of a workplace means ensuring, so far as is reasonably practicable, that there are no risks to the health and safety of anyone at a workplace, or anyone who enters and exits a workplace.

It also means ensuring, so far as is reasonably practicable, there are no risks arising from the workplace.

A workplace can include a vehicle, vessel, aircraft, mobile structure or any installation on water where a worker goes, or is likely to be, while at work for a business or undertaking.

A person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU - the new term that includes employers) with management or control of a workplace should:

consult with workers when determining the adequacy of facilities for the welfare of workers
consult with other duty holders who may have a shared responsibility to provide a safe physical work environment and facilities
maintain the work environment and facilities in a safe condition
implement appropriate procedures for workers who work in remote or isolated locations such as emergency procedures, communication and accommodation
prepare, implement and practice emergency plans, to ensure that everyone can be evacuated from the workplace in a controlled manner if an emergency arises.

Duties of a worker

A worker must, while at work:

take reasonable care for their own health and safety
take reasonable care for the health and safety of others
comply with any reasonable instruction by the PCBU
Cooperate with any reasonable policies and procedures of the PCBU.

Training and assessment providers

Work Cover accredited assessors and approved Registered Training Organizations (RTOs) and training providers must ensure they meet all their responsibilities and the required standards of behavior when delivering their training and assessment services.

It is the responsibility of service providers to make certain that they act in accordance with the standards and the trust placed in them by the community.

Legislation and Codes for practice

Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, makes the following Regulations under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 and the Work Health and Safety (Transitional and Consequential Provision) Act 2011.

A code of practice provides details on how to achieve the standards required under the work health and safety (WHS) legislation, by identifying hazards and managing risks.

Under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011(WHS Act), codes of practices are admissible in court proceedings. Courts may regard a code of practice as evidence of what is known about a hazard, risk or control, and rely on it determine what is reasonably practicable in the circumstances. A person cannot be prosecuted for falling to comply with a code of practice.

A person with duties under the WHS Act can comply with their duties by following another method, such as a technical or industry standard, if it provides a standard of work health and safety equivalent to, or higher than the code of practice.

An inspector can refer to an approved code of practice when issuing an improvement or prohibition notice and can offer the person to whom the notice is issued a choice of ways in which to remedy the contravention.

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BSBWHS501A Ensure a safe workplace Assessment Task 1

1. Review the Australian Hardware

Manual lifting procedures

What are the present weight limits for lifting?

Safe Lifting Technique

1. PREPARATION

2. SIZE UP THE LOAD

3. PROPER FOOT POSITION

4. PROPER HOLD

5. BEND THE KNEES

6. STRAIGHT BACK

7. STRAIGHT BACK

Team lifting

Handling and Use of Hazardous Material

A. Storage

B. MSDS Information

C. Disposal of Empty Hazardous Material Containers

D. Hazardous Material on hand without Future Use

1. Review the Australian Hardware simulated business information

Health Safety and Environment

3. WHS management system to propose for Australian Hardware.

WHS training

On the job training

Training needs analysis

4: Australian Hardware (Wollongong) WHS policy and procedures

Purpose

Scope

Responsibility

Relevant legislation/standards

Work Health and Safety

Name of Act

Commencement

5. evelop a report on the proposed WHSMS.

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