Assessment 1: Work Health Safety Assessment

Instructions:
To prepare for this assignment:
• Locate a suitable environment for conducting a work health safety risk assessment.
This may be your own workplace, the workplace of a friend or family member, or a
home office space. Make sure that you obtain permission to conduct an assessment
in a professional environment.
• Download the work health safety risk assessment template.
• Review the resources at the Health and Safety Handbook website, and the steps to
undertaking a Work Health and safety assessment here:
https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/risk
To complete your work health safety risk assessment:
1. Complete the steps of work safety risk assessment, using the template provided to
record any hazards identified, existing controls in place, the relative risk level, and any
controls that are needed to further reduce risk.
- Remember that the purpose is to reduce risk and mitigate the effects of risks
where risk is inherently present.

2. In a diverse workplace there may be subpopulations that are more vulnerable to being
affected by a safety hazard than others. Identify and describe any vulnerable
populations, and propose solutions for mitigating risks for these groups.
To write up this case study:
1. Identify any key agencies or institutions that govern work health safety in this type of
working environment.
2. Describe any policies that are relevant to maintaining a safe work environment in this
industry (policies can be organisational, discipline-specific and/or national).
3. Summarise the findings of your work health safety assessment, including details
relevant to managing risk for vulnerable populations, and provide recommendations to
resolve the work safety risks identified.

Assessment criteria
• Understanding of the concepts that underpin work health and safety assessment (20%)
• Application of the process of risk assessment to identify and evaluate elements of risk in
the environment (30%)
• Development of recommendations appropriate to the risk and context (20%)
• Awareness of vulnerable groups in the workplace ie disability, gender, ethnicity, and the
effect of identified work health safety risks for those vulnerable groups (10%)
• Academic conventions (20%)

• Is well written with appropriate sentence construction and without typing, grammar
  or punctuation errors
•  Adheres to academic conventions and appropriate terminology
• Uses APA style for in-text citation and references