SITXWHS004 Establish and Maintain a Work Health and Safety System - Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment

Assessment Task 3- Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment

Assessment type:

• Practical activities

 Instructions provided to the student:

Assessment task description:     

• This is the third (3^rd) unit of assessment task student has to complete to be deemed competent in this unit of competency.
• The task consists of practical activities.
• The student must respond to all activities and submit them to the Trainer/Assessor.
• The student must complete the activities to the required level, e.g. provide the number of points, to be deemed satisfactory in this task.
• Trainer/Assessor is required to provide the feedback within two weeks and notify students when results are available.

 Applicable conditions:   

• This task is untimed and are conducted as open book tests (this means the student can refer to textbooks during the test).
• The student must read and respond to all activities and must use computers to answer the activities.
• The student must complete the task independently.
• No marks or grades are allocated for this assessment task. The outcome of the task will be Satisfactory or Not Satisfactory.
• Trainer /Assessor must assess student’s written skills and knowledge as he/she complete this assessment task.
• The trainer/assessor may ask the student relevant questions on this assessment task to ensure that this is his/her work.

Resubmissions and reattempts: 

• Where a student’s response are deemed not satisfactory after the first attempt, a resubmission attempt will be allowed.
• A student may speak to their Trainer/Assessor if student have any difficulty in completing this task and require reasonable adjustments (e.g. can be given as an oral assessment)

Location:

• This assessment task may be completed in a learning management system (i.e. Moodle), workplace, or independent learning environment.
• Trainer/Assessor will provide the student with further information regarding the location for completing this assessment task.

  Purpose of the assessment

The purpose of this assessment task is to assess the students in being able to write and produce complex documents and write a report.

Instructions for answering written questions:

•  It is expected of students to correctly complete all the activities.
• Answers must demonstrate an understanding and application of relevant concepts, critical thinking, and good writing skills.
• The student must concise to the point and write answers according to the given word-limit to each question and do not provide irrelevant information.
• The student must not use non-discriminatory language. The language used should not devalue, demean, or exclude individuals or groups on the basis of attributes such as gender, disability, culture, race, religion, sexual preference or age. Gender inclusive language should be used.
• The assessor should not accept answers copied directly from texts without acknowledgement of the text.

  How the trainer/assessor will assess the work? 

• This assessment task requires the student to answer all the questions.
• Answers must demonstrate the student’s understanding and knowledge of the unit.    
• If all assessment tasks are deemed Satisfactory (S), then the unit outcome is Competent (C).
• If at least one of the assessment task is deemed Not Satisfactory (NS), then the unit outcome is Not Yet Competent (NYC).
• Once all assessment tasks allocated to this Unit of Competency have been undertaken, the trainer/assessor will complete an Assessment plan to record the unit outcome. The outcome will be either Competent (C) or Not Yet Competent (NYC).

Benchmark for Assessment

• You are expected to respond to all aspects of each question and case study. In some cases, direction is provided on the expected length of your response. These assessments will require a Short, Medium or Long
• The following is a guide to the expected number of words for each of these categories unless otherwise indicated.

Instructions to students

In this task you will demonstrate your knowledge and skills in being able to establish and maintain practices for identifying hazards and assessing and controlling risks.  Risk assessment templates have been provided to you as an example. You can use these template or design one of your own.  You can work on these activities in small groups however the answers must be in your own words.

• Create hazard identification form for Roger to assist him with the identification of hazards on catering locations. Identify a hazard and complete the form.
• Why should Why Cook have comprehensive risk assessment procedures in place and what is the process for conducting a risk assessment?
• What is the process for conducting a risk assessment?
• Using the Risk Assessment Register, identify all the risks which could occur at the “Why Cook” restaurant and list the risks. Template 4 is provided to you as a guide.
• Using the Risk Control plan, give examples of how a risk and/or hazard in the kitchen can be controlled.
• List a minimum of four (4) ways of identifying hazards
• Why would you analyse the risk level of a hazard?
• List the hierarchy of control for treatment of hazards and explain it in detail:
• Case Study

1. How will you investigate the injuries?
2. What research might help you to understand how the injuries were obtained?

• As part of the research conducted you find that three of the workers were injured in setting up a table for the catering event and the other worker was injured getting the table out of the van.

1. List control measures that you believe would reduce the chance of injury while loading the table in and out of the van and setting up the table.
2. Identify which control measures fit where on the hierarchy of control e.g. Elimination, substitution, isolation, engineering, administration or PPE.
3. Explain what changes will need to be made, using your controls listed above to prevent further injury.

• Write a memo to Roger explaining what you found and your recommendations to prevent a further injury and why and how would you determine if the control measures you recommended have worked?