Health and Safety Flashcards
3 reasons why you need to know about health and safety?
Legal - it’s the law
Ethical - look after our people
Our business - good health and safety is good business
H & S - What is a Duty Holder?
A person who has duty under HSWA
4 types of duty
- PCBU’s
- Officer
- Workers
- Other persons a workplaces
S17 HSWA - What is a PCBU?
A person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU)
Can be an individual or organisation.
Under the HSWA police is a PCBU.
A PCBU must ensure health and safety of workers. It’s called a primary duty of care
S18 HSWA - what is an officer?
A person who occupies a specified position or a position that allows the influence over management ie directors, chief executives.
Officers ensure PCBU comply with H&S obligations
This role is the wider Executive team
S19 HSWA - what is a worker?
An individual who carries out work in any capacity for PCBU.
Can be an employee, contractor, subcontractor, en employee of a contractor or subcontractor, hire company employee, apprentice, volunteer.
Everyone who works for NZP is a worker.
S20 HSWA - what is a workplace?
A place where work is carried out, includes any place where a worker goes or is likely to be.
A place includes vehicles, vessels, structure or mobile structure or waters
HSWA - what does work environment mean?
Any physical or psychological work environment.
Duty of care applies where ever police are working - office, vehicle, custody, people’s homes
HSWA - what does other persons at a workplace mean?
Visitors or casual volunteers. They have their own H&S duty to take reasonable care and keep themselves safe
HSWA - what does Health mean?
Both physical and mental
Police must protect people’s health from work related factors
s36 HSWA - what is primary duty of care?
PCBU must ensure, so far as reasonably practical the H&S of workers, whose activities are directed by a PCBU
s22 HSWA - what does reasonably practicable mean?
What is or was reasonably able to be done to ensure safety.
Relevant matters include;
Likelihood of risk occurring or workers exposed to a hazard.
The degree of harm that may result
What the person concerned knows or ought to know about
The hazard or risk
Was of eliminating/minimising the risk
Ways to eliminate the risk
After assessing the risk the cost
involved is grossly disproportionate
Control measure can only NOT be implemented where cost is grossly disproportionate.
What do Health and Safety committees do?
Must have equal employee/employer representation and at times SMEs
Purpose is to work together with other HSRs to promote H&S excellence
Health and Safety inductions
H&S inductions are required for all new staff to a station no matter how experienced they are
H&S advisors
Must has access to elected and trained H&S representatives (HSRs)
HSRs complete mandatory training to represent workers in H&S matters.
H&S Advisor is the next level above a HSR
S45 HSWA - what are the duties of a worker?
- Take reasonable care of their own H&S
- Take reasonable care that their acts/omissions do not adversely affect H&S of others
- Comply with instruction given by the PCBU
- Cooperate with any reasonable policy and procedure
S46 HSWA - what are the duties of other persons at a workplace?
- Take reasonable care of their own H&S
- Take reasonable care that their acts/omissions do not adversely affect H&S of others
- Comply with instruction given by the PCBU
What is the cycle for managing H&S hazards and risk?
Plan- assess and ID control measures
Do - Implement control measures
Check - Monitor performance of control measures
Act - take action on lessons learnt
What is a static risk?
They are predictable and/or remain consistent over time.
Static risks can be planned for ahead of time
What is a dynamic risk?
Difficult to predict or occur because of sudden changes.
Hard to plan for and control measures need to be implemented on the run.
Use TENR to manage dynamic risk
What is critical risk?
Death or life threatening injury.
Recording and reviewing incidents/near miss
Work related accidents, incidents, deaths, injuries or near misses can be indicators of uncontrolled or poorly controlled risks.
Reported in my police by the individual involved or their supervisor if they are unable/ incapacitated by injury.
Any incident requires a debrief. The aim of this is to find out what and be learnt to prevent it from occurring again. Not to apportion any blame.
Need to be reviewed by a supervisor
What is a near miss?
“Damn that was close”
Unplanned or unexpected event and under slightly different circumstances could have resulted in harm but did not.
Near misses can also includes “loss only” incidents where damage was caused to police property but no one was injured.
A near miss does not include :
An unsafe condition- bald tyre on a car which is known to a staff member
An unsafe act - staff member uses the car with a bald tyre.
s25 HSWA - What is a Notifiable Event?
Any of the following events that arise from work:
- Death of a person
- Notifiable injury or illness
- Notifiable incident
Deaths, injuries or illness that are unrelated to work are not notifiable events, for example:
- Non work related medical event - diabetic worker slipping into a coma at work
- Worker being injured in a car crash on way to work
- Injuries to detainees that are triggered by a medial condition - injuries from a fall as a result of a heart attack
What to do if a Notifiable event occurs
Notifications are made to Worksafe by the district H&S advisor or the safer people team at PNHQ.
Outside of business hours DCC can notify worksafe.
s23 HSWA - what is a Notifiable injury or illness?
Any injury/illness that require a person to be admitted to hospital for immediate treatment are Notifiable.
Notifiable injury/illness means:
- Injury/illness that requires immediate treatment other than first aid
- Injury/illness that requires or would require admission to hospital for immediate treatment.
- Injury/illness that requires or would require the person to have medical treatment within 48hrs of exposure to a substance
- Serious infection which the carrying out of work is a contributing factor
- Injury/illness declared by regulations to be Notifiable injury’s
