HLTWHS002 Follow safe work practices for direct care work

Name: Sunita Mehmi ID: 10759

ASSESSMENT TASK 1 – QUESTIONING

1. Name the WHS/OHS legislation that applies in your state/territory and briefly explain the role of Safe
Work Australia and the National Work Health and Safety model.

2. Identify the difference between a risk and a hazard? Identify two (2) forms of reporting workplace
hazards.

3. List eight (8) common manual handling hazards in an aged care facility workplace.

4. Explain in your own words, what a manual handling risk assessment is and how it would be carried out.

5. Describe why it is important to report hazards? How should this be done? Who should you report this
to?

6. Identify how fatigue can be hazardous to a worker? Provide two (2) examples of what may lead to
fatigue.

7. Identify how the effects of stress can be hazardous to your job working in aged care? Give two examples
of stress causes.

8. Outline the hierarchy of control. What does it do?

9. Identify and describe the levels used to rate the likelihood that hazards will result in a harmful incident.

10. Identify how infections can be spread and how you can minimize the risk of the spread of infection?

11. Describe the term “duty of care”

12. Explain the role and responsibility of all workers in any workplace, with regard to health and safety.

13. Identify why it is necessary that employers use consultative procedures when determining health and
safety strategies?

14. Identify the following signs or symbols that you are likely to see in a workplace and describe what they
mean and where they are used.

15. Using the rating scale, rate the risks to your health of the following, and explain your answers.

16. What can you do to ensure currency of safe work practices is maintained?