Following health, safety and security procedures

Each state and territory has responsibility for making laws about and enforcing OHS but
works in conjunction with the NOHSC, which is empowered under the Occupational Health
and Safety Act 1985.
OBJECTIVES OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY LEGISLATION
All Australian employees protected bye respective state or territory OHS legislation.
Main objectives:
- the reduction of work-related accidents
- the elimination of risks to health and safety at work
- the protection of persons at work against risks to health and safety
- the provision for involvement of employees in the identification and
management of health and safety issues.
Occupational health and safety its everyones responsibility
CODES OF PRACTICE
Help industry meet its obligations
Guide to conduct, not a legal regulation
Provide for a number of options and give practical guidance for employers and
individuals to meet OHS standards
Exists for general functions and industries
Available covering a range of OHS issues, including manual handling, passive
smoking, noise and first aid in the workplace
A practical and flexible guide for meeting OHS standards in the workplace
HEALTH AND SAFETY RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE WORKPLACE
Employer has main responsibility for OHS
All employees required to assist employers fulfil this responsibility
EMPLOYER OBLIGATIONS
Employers have a duty of care to employees and general public
A duty of care is the responsibility one person has for anothers health and safety in
the eyes of the law
General obligations:
- maintaining equipment used by staff, training for use of the equipment and
ensuring safe systems of work
- ensuring that the ways of storage, handling and use of hazardous substances
are safe
- ensuring that the way work is done is safe and does not affect employees
health
- providing employees with the information, instruction and training needed to
perform their job safely (where necessary, in languages other than English)
- monitoring the health of employees
- involving employees and/or worker representatives in health and safety
initiatives in the workplace
- monitoring, recording and evaluating the workplace and incidents
EMPLOYEE DUTIES
Employees have a duty of care for safety of colleagues and public
While at work, employees are expected to perform their duties competently and to:
- take reasonable care for their own health and safety and that of anyone else
who may be affected

cooperate with employers to comply with the requirements of the Act

report breaches of safety and potential risks
work and behave in ways that are safe
follow instructions and rules imposed by the employer (that are legal)

FOLLOWING WORKPLACE PROCEDURES FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY