Navitas Professional Year | Australian Workplace Culture
What is work health and safety (WHS)?
Work health and safety (WHS) – sometimes called occupational health and safety (OH&S) – involves the management of risks to the health and safety of everyone in the workplace. This includes the health and safety of anyone who does work for you as well as your customers, visitors and suppliers.
What an EMPLOYER must do?
Put health and safety practices in place.
Under Australian WHS laws, ensure the health and safety of workers and not put the health and safety of other people at risk.
Provide a safe work environment.
Provide and maintain safe machinery and structures.
Provide safe ways of working.
Ensure safe use, handling and storage of machinery, structures and substances.
Provide and maintain adequate facilities.
Provide any information, training, instruction or supervision needed for safety.
Monitor the health of workers and conditions at the workplace.
What a WORKER must do?
People working in a business have WHS obligations to themselves and others at work.
Take care of their own health and safety.
Take care not to do anything that could hurt others.
Follow WHS instructions.
Follow the workplace’s WHS policies and procedures.
COVID-19 WHS
Please check the video below to see what is happening on WHS during COVID.
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