Introduction
Workplace Health and Safety (WHS)
Workplace health and safety procedures include all the options to ensure the health of workers or employees in the working area. It aims to foster a safe and healthy working environment and also puts an emphasis on the health needs of the employees. Workplace health and safety was bought in use in time when many people were getting ill or were getting subjected to an inhuman environment at their working places and thus it became essential to ensure health for them.
Pre-test
What Do You Already Know?
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Task
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
At the end of this lesson, you are expected to identify hazards and risks.
Process
What Do You Need To Know?
HAZARDS AND RISKS
What is the difference between 'hazard' and 'risk'?
A hazard is something that can cause harm, eg electricity, chemicals, working up a
ladder, noise, a keyboard, a bully at work, stress.
Risk is the chance or probability that a person will be harmed or experience an adverse
health effect once to a hazard. It may also apply to situations with property or equipment
loss. A risk is the chance, high or low, that any hazard will actually cause somebody harm.
For example, working alone away from your office can be a hazard. The risk of
personal danger may be high. Electrical repair is a hazard. If someone accidentally turned
on the power the worker’s life will be in a 'high-risk' category.
Five Basic Workplace Hazards
Workplace hazards fall into 8core types that can put both your health and your safety at risk.
1. Electrical
2. Environment
3. Hazardous Chemicals
4. Hazardous Manual Tasks
5. Health and Wellbeing
6. Material
7. Mental Health
8. Plant, Equipment and Vehicle
WorkSafe.qld.gov.au
Visit the Work Safe Queensland website by clicking the below link and familiarise yourself with common workplace hazards.
https://www.worksafe.qld.gov.au/safety-and-prevention/hazards
Evaluation
How Much Have You Learned?
Self-Check 1.1
In your notebook or a Word document, write at least three examples of each type of hazard.
1. Electrical
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2. Environment
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3. Hazardous Chemicals
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4. Hazardous Manual Tasks
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5. Health and Wellbeing
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6. Material
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7. Mental Health
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8. Plant, Equipment and Vehicle
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How Do You Apply What You Have Learned?
Show that you learned something by doing this activity.
POSTER
Create your own Workplace Health and Safety Poster
Decide what message you want to get across (the purpose) and who you want to get it across to (the audience). Some students may want to focus on general awareness of workplace health and safety, others may choose an industry or job area and others a hazard.