Assessment task 2 – observation checklist

Assessment Task 2

Undertake consultation and manage WHS risk

Learner instructions

This assessment continues from Assessment Task 1 and requires you to be working in a position in which you are authorised to establish, maintain and evaluate/review WHS policies, procedures and programs. However, the consultation meetings in this assessment will be delivered in a simulated/pretend environment.

The assessment task is in two parts.

Assessment conditions

organisational WHS policies and procedures required to demonstrate the performance evidence
WHS laws required to demonstrate/show the performance evidence/proof

Required resources

a computer with access to the internet, word processing software (such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs), data-processing software (such as Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets), and a printer
assessment materials from Assessment Task 1

Procedure

Part A: Develop risk management policies and procedures

You will prepare a folio/number of sheets of documents for this task using word processing software. To begin, review the following items:
1. the materials you generated in Assessment Task 1
2. define the organisation’s approach to WHS risk management and commitment to legal compliance
3. include procedures for:
  4. ongoing risk management practices such as risk audits, observations, performance review and consultation
  5. reassessing the identification of hazards at the initial stages of any workplace change to ensure that new hazards are not created by the proposed changes and existing hazards are controlled

1. include templates/drafts and procedures for collecting information on hazards/dangers, incidents and actions taken, such as incident reports and risk registers¹
2. use data processing software (e.g. Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets) to create a system that can identify patterns of incidents within the workplace.

Part B: Consultation and risk control plan

‘Can you expand on…?’
‘Could you talk to me about…?’

You will give a scenario/situation in which one worker tells you about hazardous working conditions in the factory they are concerned have not been identified. The other worker tells you about risks that they reported but were not acted upon.
The HSR believes that there needs to be consultation arrangements written into hazard identification and risk assessment procedures.

timelines, resources and individual responsibilities
any changes to procedures, along with any new procedures to be developed
all recordkeeping or reporting actions to assist in compliance and organisational WHS performance review
evidence of consultations with expert advisors (for example, from a WorkCover authority for advice on chemical separation or safety zones within warehouses) and include copies of any guidance material they have suggested.

Submit your completed folio to your assessor within the agreed timelines. Your folio should include:
1. WHS policies and procedures

Keep copies of all documentation for use in Assessment Task 3.

Assessment Task 2 – Observation checklist

Student’s name
Student’s ID number
Unit code and title
Assessor’s name
Supervisor’s name
Assessment overview
For the assessor:

Role-play 2
Report back to workers on WHS concerns
Attempts	1	2
Date
Assessor/Supervisor initials
Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory	S U	S U	Assessor comments




f. Outlines how they propose to approach organisation’s management about these concerns
g. Explained location of a copy of the information presented and how to access it

Comments, declaration and signature

Student name
Student declaration	I declare that I have been informed of and accept the results of this part of my assessment.
Student signature		Date

Assessment Task 2 appendices

Appendix 2.1: Consultation record

Consultation 2
Name		Date
Present report to workgroup – main issues
New procedures for identifying hazards
New risk controls
Where is this information kept and how can it be accessed?