Question

When working as an Enrolled Nurse, it is important for you to understand the State/Territory legislation underpinning the workplace health and safety. You must also analyse how it impacts on workplace regulations, codes of practice and industry standards.

1.1)   Identify the workplace health and safety legislation applicable to your State/Territory and describe the key objectives of the identified Act that is relevant to your nursing practice (in 50-70 words).

1.2)   Identify the workplace health and safety regulations applicable to your State/Territory. Briefly describe the impact of the WHS Act on the identified regulations (in 50-70 words).

1.3)   Describe the impact of the identified WHS Act on the Code of Practice - Work Health and Safety Consultation, Co-operation and Co-ordination (in 50-70 words).

1.4)   Describe the scope and objective of the 'National Standard for Manual Tasks' (in 30-40 words).

1.5)   Identify the WHS authority relevant to your State/Territory and describe how they assist the organisations in complying with the WHS Act (in 50-70 words).

Answer 1

1.1)

• Farthest point the quantity of episodes on the work put both inside and outside of the healing center.
• Breaking point the quantity of occurrences in the working environments/stations.
• Perform clearing practices in offices with troublesome escape ways.
• Enhance risk control, strikingly in unsafe synthetic work environments.
• Enhance the Safety of hardware/exercises, with an uncommon accentuation on helps.

1.2)

• protecting workers and other persons from harm by requiring duty holders to eliminate or minimise risk
• providing for fair and effective representation, consultation and cooperation
• encouraging unions and employer organisations to take a constructive role in promoting improvements in WHS practices
• promoting the provision of advice, information, education and training for WHS
• securing compliance with the Act through effective and appropriate compliance and enforcement measures
• ensuring appropriate scrutiny and review of actions taken by persons with powers or functions under the Act
• providing a framework for continuous improvement
• maintaining and strengthening national harmonisation of WHS laws and facilitating a consistent national approach to WHS.

1.3)

Consultation

Conference with other obligation holders empowers everybody related with the work to have a mutual comprehension of what the dangers are, which specialists are influenced, how dangers will be controlled, and how obligation holders will cooperate to design and oversee wellbeing and security.

Co-operation

Co-operation implies that, on the off chance that you are drawn closer by other obligation holders needing to counsel with you on a WHS matter, you should react to any sensible demands and help them in meeting their obligations.

Co-ordination

Co-ordination implies that obligation holders cooperate with the goal that every individual can meet their obligation of care. This incorporates ensuring that the measures you each set up work successfully together to control the dangers.

1.4) SCOPE

The extent of this Standard is manual undertakings in the work environment.

This Standard applies to:

• people who configuration, produce or supply things or work environments;
• managers or people with control of working environments;
• managers or people with control of work; and
• specialists or workers

Objectives

The objective of this National Standard is to reduce the incidence and severity of musculoskeletal

disorders to workers performing manual tasks