SITXWHS003

Implement and monitor work health and safety practices

Assessment: - Project

Context and Conditions of Assessment

This assessment will ensure that the elements, performance criteria, performance
evidence and knowledge evidence required and conditions are adhered to
demonstrate competency in this unit assessment task.
• Read the assessment carefully before commencing.
• This is an open book assessment and will be conducted at Macallan College.
• Your Assessor will use the assessment criteria in this document and will
provide feedback / comment.
• You must answer all the questions in the assessment tasks in your own
words.
• Your Trainer / Assessor will inform you of the due date for this assessment
task.
• Your Assessor will grade as either S – Satisfactory or NS – Not Satisfactory
for the assessment. In all cases your Assessor will provide you with feedback.
• Only when all assessment tasks have been graded as S – Satisfactory you will
be deemed C – Competent in the final result of the unit of competency; if you
do not satisfactorily complete all the assessment tasks you will be deemed
NYC – Not Yet Competent.

Re-Assessment Conditions
• If the evidence is graded as NS – Not Satisfactory you will be required to re-
submit the evidence. In this case, you will be provided with clear and
constructive feedback based on the assessment decision so that they can
improve your skills / knowledge prior to reassessment.
• Where a ‘NS – Not Satisfactory’ judgement is made, you will be given
guidance on steps to take to improve your performance and provided the

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 opportunity to resubmit evidence to demonstrate competence. The assessor
will determine and discuss the reasons for NS – Not satisfactory on any of the
criteria and will assess you through a different method of assessment e.g.
verbal/oral questioning, problem solving exercises.
• You will be notified within 10 working days of undertaking an assessment of
their result in achieving competency
o If a student does not complete the assessment, they should notify their
trainer as to why they did not complete the assessment and if due to
illness, a medical certificate must be produced. “This process is
detailed more in the “Training and Assessment Policy and Procedure”
o In the above scenario, student will be given an opportunity for
reassessment within 5 working days with no reassessment fee
charged.
o Students who are deemed to be Not Yet Competent (NYC) will be
provided with information identifying the areas in which they failed to
achieve competency. Students will then have the opportunity to repeat
the assessment task within 5 working days of notification with no
reassessment fee charged.
o If a student is deemed NYC in the reassessment or if the student did
not approach the MACALLAN COLLEGE within five working days with
a valid reason for not availing themselves of the reassessment
opportunity, then those students will be given a final chance to re-sit the
assessment and will be charged at $200.00.
o After this no further reassessment attempt will be provided to the
student and the student will be required to repeat the whole unit with full
fee for the unit as per the fees policy of the MACALLAN COLLEGE.
The student will be made aware of the impact of repeating the unit may
have on their student visa.
o If a student is found to be cheating or plagiarising their assessment, a
$200.00 reassessment fee will be charged for reassessing the
assessment within 5 working days.
o If the student is found to be plagiarising or cheating again after
conclusion of the Intervention meeting with the Course Co-ordinator,

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 the matter will be referred to the CEO / Operation Manager which may
result in the suspension or cancellation of their enrolment
o The MACALLAN COLLEGE has intervention strategies, including
student support services available to enable students to complete
qualification in the expected time frame. Students at risk of not
completing within this time frame are identified as early as possible and
an intervention strategy is put in place.

Macallan College will ensure access to:

• Commercial Kitchen Simulated Environment
• Workplace procedures and instructions relating to safe work practices
• Workplace safety and emergency evacuation procedures
• Hazardous chemicals and dangerous goods information
• Safety materials and equipment relevant to an Commercial Kitchen
• Fire safety equipment First Aid equipment and relevant stock
• Documents for recording workplace safety, accidents and incidents.

Assessment Decision Making Rules

Your assessor will assess the evidence submitted for the following elements,
performance criteria, performance evidence and knowledge evidence to confirm that
the student evidence submitted demonstrates validity, sufficiency, authenticity and
confirms current skills and knowledge relevant to the unit of competency.
Your assessor will be looking for the following in this assessment task: -
• Provide information on health, safety and security
• Explain relevant WHS information to personnel.
• Make all current WHS information readily accessible to staff.
• Monitor safe work practices.
• Monitor adherence to organisational WHS procedures.
• Monitor ongoing compliance with safe work practices.

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 • Take prompt action to address non-compliance with procedures and safe work
practices.
• Monitor day-to-day effectiveness of WHS practices in maintaining the health,
safety and security of personnel.
• Coordinate consultative arrangements for the management of health, safety
and security issues.
• Coordinate the operation of all consultative processes.
• Provide opportunity for staff members to contribute their views on current and
future WHS management practices.
• Resolve or refer issues raised through WHS consultation to the appropriate
person.
• Provide timely staff and own feedback on WHS management practices to the
designated person.
• Implement and monitor procedures for identifying hazards, and assessing and
controlling risks.
• Coordinate scheduled hazard identification activities, ensuring hazards are
identified at times designated by legislation.
• Identify any hazards on an ongoing basis during own day-to-day workplace
operations.
• React to reports of hazards by other workers, and coordinate and participate
in risk assessments.
• Implement any risk control methods or refer to appropriate person if control is
outside scope of responsibility.
• Monitor effectiveness of control measures, promptly identify any inadequacies,
and resolve or report them to the appropriate person.
• Implement and monitor health, safety and security training.
• Identify WHS training needs based on regular staff monitoring.
• Decide for fulfilling training needs.
• Monitor effectiveness of training and make required adjustments.
• Maintain WHS records and reports.
• Complete WHS records and reports accurately and legibly and store
according to organisational and legal requirements.

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 • Use data and reports to provide reliable and timely input into the management
of workplace health, safety and security.
• Minimise use of printed materials and maximise electronic transmission and
filing of all documents to reduce waste.

Assessment Instructions:
1. Answer to the questions in a new word document.
2. Keep simple formatting with 12pt Arial and single line spacing.
3. Upload file to the drop box provided with a name containing your student ID
and unit code such as MACXXXX_SITXWHS003_Project.

Questions

Part A: Planning WHS systems, consultation and risk assessment

For the purpose of this assessment you need to provide for each situation
listed below:

1) Clear references to websites or sources including sections and pages where

you located the relevant legislation

2) An implementation plan that provides the steps and processes for planning
consultation, risk assessment and implementation for each situation

3) The actual records required to meet legislative requirements (for example

consultation records for staff consultation/ where incident reporting is selected
the appropriate form(s)/ where chemicals and hazardous substances are
selected the relevant SDS, PPE register, training register etc./ where security
management of any kind is selected the relevant SOPs, emergency
procedures, staff training records/ where evacuation is selected, the

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 floorplan(s), emergency procedures, wardens, forms for reports as relevant
etc.)

1. You are required to plan the following situations:

a. evacuation of staff and customers
b. security management of cash, documents, equipment, keys or people
c. handling chemicals and hazardous substances

Instance Date Duration from ... Tasks to be completed

to... What will be observed?
Selection 1: Consultation
Risk Assessment Process
Implementation
Monitoring of processes
Identification of Training
Needs
Evaluation
Recording of documentation

Selection 2: Consultation
Risk Assessment Process
Implementation
Monitoring of processes
Identification of Training
Needs
Evaluation
Recording of documentation

Selection 3: Consultation
Risk Assessment Process
Implementation
Monitoring of processes
Identification of Training
Needs
Evaluation

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 Recording of documentation

2. Once your situations have been selected, you need to access the relevant
codes of practice from the Safe work website or the website governing
WHS relevant for your state.

Situation Code/legislation/factsheet Reference

3. After you have identified the specific requirements for each situation you
will need to plan, develop and implement consultation processes with your
staff/ colleagues.

Instance 1:

Situation:
Describe the legal requirements set out by the relevant code/legislation that applies to this
situation

Consultation Requirements: Where, when, what

Who is involved:

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Risk assessment including Hazard Analysis – what will need to be assessed

Complete the risk assessment template (Provided under resources) marked

“Situation___________________

Instance 2:

Situation:
Describe the legal requirements set out by the relevant code/legislation that applies to this
situation

Consultation Requirements:

Who is involved:

Risk assessment including Hazard Analysis – what will need to be assessed

Complete the risk assessment template (Provided under resources) marked

“Situation____________________

Instance 3:

Situation:
Describe the legal requirements set out by the relevant code/legislation that applies to this
situation

Consultation Requirements:

Who is involved:

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Risk assessment including Hazard Analysis – what will need to be assessed

Complete the risk assessment template (Provided under resources) marked

“Situation____________________

Part B: Implementing, monitoring and evaluating WHS systems

You are required to implement each situation based on the work you have
planned and completed in Part A.
1. Brief all relevant staff before implementation to provide a refresher of the
procedures that were finalised and determined during consultation and risk
assessment.
2. Monitor each situation and ensure that any breaches are identified promptly.
3. Use relevant templates or a log to document progress and incidents for each
situation.
4. Take appropriate actions to prevent any potential incidents, accidents or other
hazards where a safety risk has been identified.
5. Document each breach or shortfall you identify for each instance.
6. Write a report summary for each situation and clearly outline the requirements
for changes for each procedure based on the results in 4. and which type of
training this will require as a result for each situation.
7. Attach your completed templates or log as relevant.
8. Attach your final summary report.

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