BSBWHS616 Apply Safe Design Principles to Control WHS Risks

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Resources required to complete the assessment task:

• Computer
• Internet
• MS Word
• Printer or e-printer
• Staff members
• Reports from other parties consulted about WHS risk in a product’s life cycle (Provided along with this assessment)
• Legislation, standards, guidelines, research and industry data

Assessment task Instructions

• This is an individual assessment.
• The purpose of this assessment task is to assess the student’s knowledge essential to apply safe design principles to control work health and safety (WHS) risks in a product’s life cycle.
• The trainer/assessor will take on the role of Operations Manager.
• The trainer/assessor will allocate the role of the other stakeholders specified in the individual activities to the staff members of the training organisation.
• The student must use the templates provided to document their responses.
• The trainer/assessor must assess the student using the performance checklist provided.

Assessment Task 3: Skills Test

Skills Test:

This assessment task requires the student to apply safe design principles to control work health and safety (WHS) risks in a product’s life cycle.

This includes provide advice based on WHS legislative requirements and safe design principles in relation to:

• Developing a systematic WHS risk-management approach to safe design
• Consultation processes relating to safe design in a product’s life cycle
• Procurement systems to minimise ‘purchased’ WHS hazards and their associated risks.

To do so, the student will be required to complete the following activities:

• Activity 1: Provide WHS advice in relation to developing a systematic WHS risk-management approach to safe design
• Activity 2: Provide WHS advice in relation to consultation processes relating to safe design in a product’s life cycle
• Activity 3: Provide WHS advice in relation to procurement systems to minimise ‘purchased’ WHS hazards and their associated risks

Workplace/simulated workplace requirements

This assessment task will be completed at your training organisation. The training organisation must meet the following requirements:

Requirements:

The simulated workplace environment consists of:

• Your training organisation as your workplace
• Standard operating/workplace procedures.
• Your trainer/assessor to provide you with assistance throughout the assessment activity.
• Workplace resources:
  • Computers and internet
  • Workstation
  • Printer
  • Staff members
• Legislation, standards, guidelines, research and industry data
  • https://www.safedesignaustralia.com.au/whs-legislation/

Case study: Jack Machinery Australia

Back ground information

Jack Machinery Australia is a long-standing saw manufacturer. Jack Machinery has over 40 years of experience in the saw manufacturing sector and is worldwide famous for its outstanding quality and unique product line. Bandsaws, coldsaws, friction saws, and T.C.T saws are among the top metal cutting saws created in Italy. Jack machines are purpose-built for high-volume, continuous use in the most demanding manufacturing situations.

Jack Machinery Australia specialises in providing industrial metal cutting bandsaws, coldsaws, friction and TCT saws that offer the best quality cuts while meeting the demanding quality and capacity demands of industrial applications.

For almost 20 years, Jack Machinery Australia has been delivering bandsaws to industrial workshops all around Australia as metal cutting saw specialists. Our knowledge and expertise have assisted us in developing Australia's greatest line of metal cutting saws, allowing us to provide our clients with the best service and advise.

Jack saws are offered throughout Australia through our distributor network.

Saws produced and sold by Jack saws

Metal cutting saws

Jack Machinery Australia specialises in the production of every type of saw used in the metalworking and fabrication industries, with manual, semi-automatic, and fully automatic alternatives available. Jack Machinery Australia is the best in the business, with tough industrial-grade construction and exceptional cutting quality.

We stock a wide variety of metal cutting saws, including:

• Coldsaws – Circular saw machines that cut quickly, accurately, and with great quality. When using a coldsaw, both the blade and the material being cut remain cool. They are suitable for cutting most ferrous and non-ferrous alloys, and the blades may be sharpened several times if they get blunt.
• Bandsaws – Purchase the most dependable quality bandsaws in Australia. These bandsaws are well suited to high-capacity metal cutting projects since they can cut through enormous amounts of work swiftly and easily. M42 bandsaw blades have a long life and are inexpensive, resulting in a low cost per cut. When a blade becomes blunt, it is simple to replace it.
• Friction Saws – High-speed circular saws that cut metal using frictional heat. The generated heat melts through the metal, resulting in an extremely quick cut. Friction saws are frequently used for cutting the most tough materials, although their blades have a shorter life period than other saws.
• T.C.T Saws – A rapid and precise circular saw designed for nonferrous metals such as aluminium, copper, and brass. These saws feature a tungsten carbide-tipped blade, which provides improved strength and allows the saw to be run at much higher temperatures to generate a faster cut.

Saw blades

We offer Jack bandsaw and coldsaw saw blades for general purpose cutting, as well as specialised saw blades for the most difficult metal cutting operations.

Our selection includes speed face coldsaw blades, which reduce friction when cutting and increase wear resistance. Cobalt coldsaw blades are an additional exceptional option, with a 5 percent cobalt content that increases the hardness of the blades, making them an excellent choice for cutting hard materials that reach greater temperatures during the cutting process.

T.C.T saw blades, which are tungsten carbide-tipped for enhanced cutting quality when working with non-ferrous metals, are also available.

Saw accessories

In our Saw Accessories department, you'll find everything you need. No cutting saw is complete withoutsynthetic metal working fluid, which we supply in 5 litre and 20 litre sizes.

We also supply coldsaw platforms, which provide you with a perfect working platform at a comfortable height to perform your metal sawing work.

Safe design approach used by WCC

Identify hazards

Identify the hazards relating to all stages of the product – such as hazardous manual handling or violence and aggression.

Assess the risk

Assess the likelihood of the hazard causing harm to people.

Eliminate or control the risk

Implement effective control measures to eliminate the risk, or if this is not possible, reduce the risk of harm to an acceptable level. For example, overhead tracking, noise reduction, machine guarding.

Review

Review the effectiveness of the controls to ensure they are working to reduce the risk to an acceptable level.

Principles of safe design

The five principles that impact on achieving a safe design are described below.

Principle 1: Persons with control

The people who make decisions should be competent and understand that their decisions will affect the design of products, facilities or processes, which means they can promote health and safety at the source.

Principle 2: Product life cycle

Safe design applies to every stage in the life cycle from conception through to disposal. It involves eliminating hazards or minimising risks as early in the life cycle as possible.

Principle 3: Systematic risk management

The consistent application of hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control processes is required to achieve safe design.

Principle 4: Safe design knowledge and capability

Should be either demonstrated or acquired by persons with control over design.

Principle 5: Information transfer

Effective communication and documentation of design and risk control information between all persons involved in the phases of the life cycle is essential for the safe design approach.

The safe design principles will be applicable to the following stages of the product’s life cycle:

• Design
• Installation
• Operation
• Disposal

‘Safe design’ refers to a process defined as the integration of hazard identification and risk assessment methods to eliminate or minimise the risk of injury throughout the life cycle of plant, tool or equipment being designed.

New equipment to be introduced into the workplace

Jack Machinery Australia wants to design a cold saw with protective guarding that will enable safe operation, whilst also ensuring that the machine can be installed, maintained and disposed of safely.

Advise on consultation with known and/or potential users of the product

Based on the organisational policies and procedures, the following stakeholders need to be consulted during the design phase:

• Supplier
• Operator

A report will be generated by the above stakeholders to advise on WHS risk in a product’s life cycle.

Organisational processes and procedures to facilitate involvement of technical experts

Technical advice must be obtained on the following matters:

• Consultation arrangements required throughout the project life cycle.
• Communicating residual WHS risks in product

Existing situation

You are working as product designer in Jack Machinery Australia.

Management of the Jack Machinery Australia wants you to apply safe design principles to control work health and safety (WHS) risks in a product’s life cycle before introducing it into the workplace.

As part of your job role to eliminate or minimise hazards and their associated risks before introducing micro trencher in the workplace, you will have the following responsibilities:

• Inform decision-makers of their obligations under WHS laws to manage WHS risks throughout the life cycle of a product.
• Gather and make available to decision-makers the most up-to-date information and data on WHS principles, materials, technology, and systems applicable to product design.
• Provide advice on methods and tools to aid in WHS hazard identification and risk assessment throughout a product's life cycle.
• Determine and address decision-makers' learning and development needs in order to manage WHS risks that may arise during a product's life cycle, including during the design phase.
• Advise on product consultation with known and/or potential users during the design phase, in accordance with organisational policies and procedures.
• Recognise situations in which specialist and other advisers may be required to assist with safe design activities.
• Based on the hierarchy of control measures, provide advice on the selection and implementation of required WHS risk controls in design.
• Provide guidance on the documentation requirements for decision-making during the risk assessment process.
• Advise on the creation of a residual WHS risk register and the dissemination of this information to those involved in the downstream or subsequent stages of the product life-cycle.
• Advise on how to monitor the design as it evolves in order to identify and manage potential WHS hazards that may arise during the product's life cycle, as well as the risks associated with them.
• Identify and address decision-makers' learning and development needs in relation to managing design-related WHS risks throughout a product's life cycle.
• Assist decision-makers in taking into account the needs of those who use or interact with the product throughout its life cycle.
• Facilitate the participation of technical experts as required by organisational processes and procedures.
• Advise on consultation arrangements with required personnel throughout all phases of the design process to identify WHS hazards and control WHS risks that may occur throughout the life cycle of a product.
• Provide guidance on communicating residual WHS risks in a product to those who will use or interact with it throughout its life cycle.
• Advise purchasing and contractual decision-makers to include requirements to identify WHS hazards and control WHS risks, as well as to provide information and data on residual WHS risks, as part of the procurement process.
• Suggest that a requirement to use a safe design approach be included in the design brief or draught specifications.

Skills Test:

This assessment task requires the student to apply safe design principles to control work health and safety (WHS) risks in a product’s life cycle.

This includes providing advice based on WHS legislative requirements and safe design principles in relation to:

• Developing a systematic WHS risk-management approach to safe design
• Consultation processes relating to safe design in a product’s life cycle
• Procurement systems to minimise ‘purchased’ WHS hazards and their associated risks.

To do so, the student will be required to complete the following activities:

• Activity 1: Provide WHS advice in relation to developing a systematic WHS risk-management approach to safe design
• Activity 2: Provide WHS advice in relation to consultation processes relating to safe design in a product’s life cycle
• Activity 3: Provide WHS advice in relation to procurement systems to minimise ‘purchased’ WHS hazards and their associated risks

Note:

• The trainer/assessor will take on the role of Operations Manager or assign a staff member in the role of Operations Manager.
• Each student will be assessed individually for all assessment activities.

Roles and responsibilities: Operations Manager: The Operations Manager will:

• Assist you in understanding the task requirements
• Provide you information about job roles and responsibilities
• Supervise you completing the assessment task and requirements

Timeframe to complete the project:

Two weeks (You have two weeks to complete the project): Changes to be made by the training organisation

Task requirements

• You will be assessed on your technical knowledge and skills to complete this project.
• You will be assessed on working in a team environment and meeting your job role and responsibilities.
• You must follow the instructions provided by the trainer/assessor.
• The task must be completed in the specified timeframe.

Your trainer/assessor will supervise and observe you completing the above activities.