Introduction
The assessment tasks for SITXWHS007 SITXWHS003 Implement and monitor work health and safety practices are outlined in the assessment plan below. These tasks have been designed to help you demonstrate the skills and knowledge that you have learnt during your course. Please ensure that you read the instructions provided with these tasks carefully. You should also follow the
advice provided in the Gamma College Student User Guide. The Student User Guide provides important
information for you relating to completing assessment successfully
Assessment for this unit
SITXWHS007 Implement and monitor work health and safety practices describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to implement predetermined work health, safety and security practices designed, at management level, to ensure a safe workplace. It requires the ability to monitor safe
work practices and coordinate consultative arrangements, risk assessments, work health and safety training, and the maintenance of records.
You will be provided feedback on your assessment tasks through your learner portal
Assessment plan
Assessment Task Overview
1. Knowledge Questions
Answer all questions
2. Project Complete all tasks as per instructions including activities and compilation of portfolio materials.

Additional resources
You will be provided with the following resources before you begin each assessment task.
Assessment Task 1:
• Learner Resource
Assessment Task 2:
• Risk matrix and risk rating template
• Incident Report Template
• Monitoring Template
• Risk Assessment Template
• Action Plan Template
Checklist
This will be used by your assessor to mark your assessment. Read through this checklist as part of
your preparation before beginning the assessment task. It will give you a good idea of what your
assessor will be looking for when marking your responses or observing your performance.

Student assessment agreement
Make sure you read through the assessments in this booklet before you fill out and sign the agreement below.
If there is anything that you are unsure of, consult your assessor prior to signing this agreement.

Assessment Task 1: Knowledge questions
Information for students
Knowledge questions are designed to help you demonstrate the knowledge which you haveacquired during the learning phase of this unit. Ensure that you:
• review the advice to students regarding answering knowledge questions in the GammaCollege Student User Guide
• comply with the due date for assessment which your assessor will provide
• adhere with your RTO’s submission guidelines
• answer all questions completely and correctly
• submit work which is original and, where necessary, properly referenced
• submit a completed cover sheet with your work
• avoid sharing your answers with other students.

 

Assessment information
Information about how you should complete this assessment can be found in Appendix
A of the Gamma College Student User Guide. Refer to the appendix for information on:
• where this task should be completed
• the maximum time allowed for completing this assessment task
• whether or not this task is open-book.
Note: You must complete and submit an assessment cover sheet with your work. A
template is provided in Appendix C of the Student User Guide. However, if your RTOhas provided you with an assessment cover sheet, please ensure that you use that.

 

Questions
Provide answers to all of the questions below:
SECTION 1: PROVIDE INFORMATION ON HEALTH, SAFETY AND SECURITY

Q1: List five examples of the type of health, safety and security information that you must provide to staff in your workplace.

Q2: List four things an employer must do in regards to their duty of care.

Q3: What are the employee’s duties and obligations as defined by law?

Q4: List three potential consequences of not following WHS policies and procedures.

Q5: List four ways you can make current work health and safety information readily accessible to staff.

SECTION 2: MONITOR SAFE WORK PRACTICES
Q6: What three things must you monitor when checking for staff compliance with WHS matters?

Q7: List four WHS policies or procedures commonly used by organisations to manage work health, safety and security

Q8: List three safe work practices that might apply to a tour desk attendant.

Q9: List four questions you can ask to help you monitor compliance with safe work practices

Q10: What should you do when you identify an issue of non-compliance with work health and safety procedures and safe work practices?

Q11: Why is it important to maintain close contact with day-to-day operations?

SECTION 3: COORDINATE CONSULTATIVE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF HEALTH, SAFETY AND SECURITY ISSUES
Q12: Why is it important to consult with staff about health, safety and security issues?

Q13: List five ways you can consult with staff and provide them the opportunity to contribute their views on current and future work health and safety management practices.

Q14: List five situations when you are legally required to take a systematic approach to WHS consultation.

Q15: List three roles and responsibilities of an HSC?

Q16: What is the primary role of an HSR?

Q17: What should you do when a health, safety or security issue is brought to your attention?

SECTION 4: IMPLEMENT AND MONITOR PROCEDURES FOR IDENTIFYING HAZARDS, AND ASSESSING AND CONTROLLING RISKS
Q18: What are the four steps to risk management?

Q19: List four situations when you should coordinate scheduled hazard identification activities

Q20: What is a hazard?

Q21: List three hazards that relate to work practices.

Q22: List three security hazards.

Q23: List three psychosocial hazards.

Q24: What should you do whenever a hazard is brought to your attention by another worker?

Q25: What is a risk assessment?

Q26: The code of practice for managing WHS risks recommends you undertake a risk assessment in certain situations. List two of these situations.

Q27: Why is it important to involve others when coordinating and participating in risk assessments?

Q28: What is risk control?

Q29: What is the hierarchy of risk control from most to least effective?

Q30: Who should take action to implement risk control methods?

Q31: List two reasons why it’s important to monitor and review the effectiveness of control measures.

Q32: What should you do if you identify any inadequacies in control measures?

SECTION 5: IMPLEMENT AND MONITOR HEALTH, SAFETY AND SECURITY TRAINING
Q33: How can you identify WHS training needs for your team?

Q34: You are organising health and safety training for your kitchen staff as you have noticed an increase in burn accidents. You have organised a one-day session at an external training provider specialising in health and safety in a commercial kitchen. What arrangements do you need to make to ensure the training happens?

Q35: The kitchen staff have all attended the health and safety training in kitchen safety. How will you monitor if the training was effective?

Q36: You have noticed that the apprentice chef is still having some issues following the safety procedures to prevent burns. What do you do to ensure he follows these procedures?

SECTION 6: IMPLEMENT AND MONITOR WHSS RECORDS AND REPORT
Q37: When completing a WHS incident report or risk identification, what procedures do you need to follow?

Q38: What information can you refer to in order to provide reliable and timely management of workplace health, safety and security issues?

Q39: List three ways you can minimise waste when creating and maintaining WHS records and reports?

Assessment Task 1 Cover Sheet
Student declaration
To be filled out and submitted with assessment responses

Assessment Task 2: Project
Information for students
This assessment requires you to:
• Complete a risk assessment.
• Implement and monitor adherence to workplace health and safety procedures.
• Coordinate consultative processes.
• Coordinate WHS training and the maintenance of records.
• Demonstrate management practices that must be implemented for compliance with WHS.
You are required to do the following.
• Complete the tasks.
• Organise a team meeting on WHS procedures.
• Answer all the questions.
Task 1: Complete a risk assessment
You are required to complete a risk assessment in your workplace or a simulated workplace.
You are required to identify risks in the workplace related to the following situations:
• Evacuation of staff and customers.
• Security management of cash, documents, equipment, keys or people.
• Handling chemicals and hazardous substances.
• Workplace accidents.
• Hazard identification and reporting.
You are then required to complete a risk assessment matrix based on these risks to assess the
risks from most important to least important to address.
Refer to risk assessment Matrix Below.
Place the risks you identified on the risk assessment template and prioritise at least three of these in
order from most important to least important to address.
Complete
• Risk matrix
• Risk rating template
• Risk assessment template

Task 2: Question and answer
Q1: What tasks do you complete when organising a risk assessment?

Q2: What steps are involved in a risk assessment according to your organisation’s procedures?

Q3: Who is involved in a risk assessment in your organisation?

Q4: Explain any new preventative measures that you would implement for the three areas you identified in your risk assessment.

Task 3: Action plan
• You are to create three new workplace health and safety procedures based on the risk assessment you
completed in Task 1.
• These need to be related to:
• evacuation of staff and customers
• security management of cash, documents, equipment, keys or people
• handling chemicals and hazardous substances
• workplace accidents.
• hazard identification and reporting.
• You need to complete an action plan for the three new WHS procedures.
• You need to include information about:
• the new procedure.
• who is responsible for implementation
• areas and team members involved
• timeframe for roll-out of new procedures
• any training to educate team members on the new procedures
• when the new procedures will be reviewed for effectiveness.
• Populate Action plan template below.

Action plan template

Task 4: Communicate new procedures
You are to run a team meeting outlining the three new procedures you identified in Task 3. You will organise a suitable time for the meeting with your assessor and your team members.
During the meeting you must include the following.
• Explanation of new WHS procedures.
• Any changes to WHS policies as a result of this.
• Any changes to hazard identification, risk assessment or reporting.
• Ask for input from team members about the new WHS procedures.
• Outline how the team’s ideas can be applied to the new WHS procedures.
• Outline when and how the new procedures will be rolled out to all team members.
• Explanation of how the new procedures comply with WHS legislation or hospitality industry safety codes of
practice/standards.
• Explanation of where documents of the new procedures can be accessed.
• Explanation of any training that will be provided to team members.
You need to organise a meeting agenda and meeting invitations (as required in your organisation).
You need to use appropriate tools and documentation during the meeting, for example, a PowerPoint presentation (if
you make one), technological equipment (laptop, projector, etc.), handouts.
Copies of the agenda, and handouts are to be given to the assessor prior to the meeting.
Submit your agenda
Conduct your team meeting.
Complete the provided checklist
Your assessor will use the provided checklist to assess your performance during the meeting.

Task 5: Question and answer
Q1: Did your team have any concerns or issues with the new WHS procedures you are implementing? Briefly explain.

Q2: How could these issues be overcome?

Q3: What legislation or industry standards do your new procedures comply with?

Q4: What issues did you identify during the consultation process and what action did you take to resolve the issues?

Q5: Describe any feedback you’ve provided to management during or after the completion of your consultation activities in Task 4

Q6: Did you have to alter your plan to accommodate changing needs of the workplace or employees? If so, describe how.

Q7: Were the consultative processes effective in identifying issues and communicating with staff? What improvements would you make for the future?

Task 6: Monitor WHS procedures
• Implement the three WHS procedures that you identified in Task 3.
• Monitor work operations and the use of the three new procedures in your area of responsibility over a one-week
period.
• Report on issues of non-compliance with the new WHS procedures and work health and safety legislation,
procedures and safe work practices.
• Document any action you intend to take as a result of your observations (hazards identified through staff
processes, who you will notify or consult with, training needs identified, reports to be completed, etc.)
• Briefly comment on the effectiveness of existing procedures in maintaining the health, safety and security of
personnel and any recommendations for change.
• Complete monitoring template below

Monitoring template

Task 7: Question and answer
Q1: What action do you need to take as a result of your monitoring.

Q2: How will you implement these actions? Include information about timelines

Q3: Is there another area of WHS that you are concerned about after completing your monitoring activities? Explain. How will you respond to this?

Q4: How do you monitor the day-to-day effectiveness of WHS practices in maintaining the health, safety and security of personnel?

Task 8: Training evaluation
• Select an area in relation to work health and safety.
• Observe, monitor and analyse an employee’s proficiency in completing the required tasks over a week.
• Document your observations in a training needs analysis and make recommendations for further training required.
• Organise and implement the appropriate training.
• Complete Training Needs Analysis Template below

 

Training needs analysis
Employee:
Job role:

Task 9: Question and answer
Q1: Research two possible providers for the training needs you identify. Include information on training costs and arrangements.

Q2: How long does it take to arrange and complete the training from the time the training need was identified?

Q3: Has training improved the employee’s work practices? If so, explain what you have observed. If not, describe what action you plan to take.

Task 10: Compliance
Source and collect the following completed documentation in your workplace. If you are unable to
source them in your workplace, complete research online and locate them.
1. WHS consultation form
2. Hazard identification form
3. WHS incident/accident notification form
• Your assessor will ask you about the purpose that each one is used for.
• Present these to your assessor during a meeting or save and submit them to your assessor.
Task 11: Question and answer
Q1: Explain the conventions you should follow to complete these forms.

Q2: Which WHS legislation or codes of practice did you need to refer to or comply with when implementing and monitoring the WHS procedure in Tasks 3, 4 and 6? Explain.

Q3: What data can you collect in your workplace to see the effectiveness of WHS procedures?

Q4: How often should WHS documents be referred to, to check the effectiveness of WHS procedures?

Q5: You notice that some team members are not stacking the shelves correctly and according to work safety procedures in the storeroom. You have just seen some heavy items stored on top. What is your response? When would you deal with this issue?

Q6: You are looking through the WHS incident reports and notice that many of the forms are difficult to read due to the illegibility of the handwriting. It is really important for anyone to be able to read thesedocuments in order to analyse the information in them. How and when would you deal with this issue?

Q7: What action can you take to minimise the use of printed materials and reduce waste when organising WHS documentation?

Q8: Explain the scheduled hazard identification activities that are required to be completed in your workplace according to workplace legislation.

Q9: WHS legislation specifies that hazard identification should occur in which situations? List four.

Assessment Task 2 Cover Sheet
Student declaration
To be filled out and submitted with assessment responses

ASSESSMENT SUMMARY SHEET
After the assessment, the Assessment Summary Sheet should be signed the Assessor, Student and the Academic Manager. If a Not Competent, has been achieved then strategies to address the gaps in the performance should be have been identified and a time for reassessment organised on the attached resubmission / feedback.