Welcome to your learning checkpoint for HLTWHS004- Manage work health and safety.
To begin, let's review some examples of some WH&S Policies from medical practices across Australia. This will give you a good understanding how a policy looks like whilst adhering to the state and territories WH&S relgulations and legislation.
Click on the hyperlink to see these examples.
- Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne
- NSW Nurses and Midwifes Association
- NSW Health Work Health and Safety
- Australian Government ASQA
- Australian Goverment- Work Health and Safety Draft
- The Smith Family- Work Health and Safety Policy and Procedure
- SA Government- Community Workers Health and Safety Guidelines
- Quest Care- Work Health and Safety
- Tafe NSW Work Health and Safety
Look at the images below. Review them and identify what potential hazards might be in the picture.
Some potential Work Health and Safety issues are:
- making sure the tables are able to be raised to ensure that staff don't have to bend over
- If staff need to sit, have chairs available for them
- Tables are locked and can easily be unlocked if they need to be
- Trays are secure and filled
- Emergency plans and procedures on the walls for patients
Some potential Work Health and Safety issues are:
- Making sure there is enough space between the bed and the bench
- The carpet can be a potential hazard with the stool and patients
- The sink near electrical equipment and outlets
- Access to medications
Next you will be looking at the image below and completing a risk assessment based on one item or potential risk you have identified in the image.
Please click on the hyperlink below for you to open the Healthy Care Medical Risk Assessment template.
