Health and safety committees aim to ensure that workers’ views are heard on WHS matters. The purpose of a health and safety committee is to provide a forum for management and workers together to identify and resolve health and safety problems, and to develop and monitor safe systems and procedures. WHS committees may be elected in each workplace where a committee is requested. The other common method of ensuring workers’ views are heard is through a health and safety representative.
The principal duty holder is a ‘person conducting a business or undertaking’.
An officers’ duty is directly related to the influential nature of their position.
The WHS committee are to monitor and review measures taken to ensure the health, safety and security of any person coming onto the organisations premises and to investigate any matter that may be a risk to their health and safety. The WHS committee should meet to discuss and review WHS issues on a regular basis, but most particularly when:
- decisions are made about risk elimination or control
- changes are proposed that may affect health, safety or secuirty to the premises, sytems or procedures used for work
- introducing or changing the procedures for moniotring risks
The principal duty holder is a ‘person conducting a business or undertaking’, PCBU.
An officer is a senior executive who makes, or participates in making, decisions that affect the whole, or a substantial part, of a business or undertaking, they have a duty to be proactive and continuously ensure that the business or undertaking complies with relevant duties and obligations.
Workers include employees, contractors and volunteers working for a Commonwealth or non-Commonwealth licensee business or undertaking. Under the WHS Act, workers must take reasonable care for their own health and safety and take reasonable care that their actions or omissions do not adversely affect the health and safety of others.
Other persons at the workplace have a duty to take reasonable care for their own health and safety. They must comply with any reasonable instruction given by the person conducting the business or undertaking.
The principal duty holder is a ‘person conducting a business or undertaking’.
An officers’ duty is directly related to the influential nature of their position.
The WHS committee are to monitor and review measures taken to ensure the health, safety and security of any person coming onto the organisations premises and to investigate any matter that may be a risk to their health and safety. The WHS committee should meet to discuss and review WHS issues on a regular basis, but most particularly when:
- decisions are made about risk elimination or control
- changes are proposed that may affect health, safety or secuirty to the premises, sytems or procedures used for work
- introducing or changing the procedures for moniotring risks
The principal duty holder is a ‘person conducting a business or undertaking’, PCBU.
An officer is a senior executive who makes, or participates in making, decisions that affect the whole, or a substantial part, of a business or undertaking, they have a duty to be proactive and continuously ensure that the business or undertaking complies with relevant duties and obligations.
Workers include employees, contractors and volunteers working for a Commonwealth or non-Commonwealth licensee business or undertaking. Under the WHS Act, workers must take reasonable care for their own health and safety and take reasonable care that their actions or omissions do not adversely affect the health and safety of others.
Other persons at the workplace have a duty to take reasonable care for their own health and safety. They must comply with any reasonable instruction given by the person conducting the business or undertaking.