Your employer’s safety obligations.
Your employer is obliged to ensure the workplace health and safety to all people on site through:
- Providing and maintaining a working environment that is safe and without risks to health.
- Providing and maintaining plant, structure and systems of work that are safe and do not pose health risks.
- Ensuring the safe use, handling, storage and transport of plant, structure, and substances.
- Providing adequate facilities for the welfare of workers.
- Providing workers with information, instruction and training or supervision needed for them to work safely and without risk.
- Monitoring the health of their workers and the conditions in the workplace.
Employee Safety Obligations:
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- To take reasonable care of your own health and safety and that of others who may be affected by your actions.
- To comply with the instructions given for workplace health and safety at the workplace by the employer.
- For all workers – to use personal protective equipment if the equipment is provided by the worker’s employer and the worker is properly instructed in its use.
- Not to wilfully or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything provided for the health and safety of persons at the workplace.
- Do not operate any equipment unless you are trained and authorised to do so.
- Keep your work area clean and tidy. All items must be returned to their correct place as when left around they could cause a person to trip or fall or cause mechanical breakdown.
- Marked passageways must be kept clear at all times. If it is necessary to obstruct a passageway for repair/maintenance of plant, warning barricades must be placed on both sides of the obstruction.
- Before operating any equipment, ensure that all guards and safety devices are in position and operating correctly.
- Safety warning and directional signs must be observed at all times.
- All injuries, however minor, must be reported to your Manager/Supervisor and recorded on the Accident / Incident Report Form and necessary first aid or medical treatment obtained.
- Practical jokes, horseplay or like practices are strictly forbidden.
- Any electrical or mechanical faults are to be reported to your Manager/Supervisor immediately. Unqualified personnel must not attempt any repairs whatsoever.
- Danger tags/lockout devices must be affixed to specified or placed on hazardous equipment while maintenance/repairs are being affected. Tags/lockouts must remain in place until the equipment is again safe and serviceable and may be removed only by the person affixing them (or in their absence a management representative).
- Personal protective equipment and clothing supplied by the company must be worn at all times whilst in the work area that it applies to.
- Hair of long, loose, or unruly nature must be confined by net or cap when working near rotating parts of machinery.
- Wrist watches, bracelets, loose jewellery, or loose clothing shall not be worn when in close vicinity to moving parts of machinery.
- Any situation which you believe may be, or could become, a hazard and you cannot rectify yourself should be reported to your Manager/Supervisor or to your Safety Representative and recorded on the Hazard Report Form.
- Employees, who in the opinion of their supervisor, are under the influence of alcohol or drugs such that their condition may constitute a hazard to themselves or other workers, will not be permitted to work and will also place their job in jeopardy.
- Smoking is only permitted in the dedicated smoking areas.
- Do not use compressed air or gases to clean clothes, hair, or parts of the body. Do not direct air or blow rubbish towards yourself or any other person.
- Riding on any part other than the designed seat of all vehicles, fork-lift trucks or mobile equipment is prohibited.
- Do not run. Do not take short cuts. Do not step over or walk under moving machinery. Use designated pathways, ramps, and stairways.
- Do not climb product racks or stack products other than on a ladder.
- Watch for moving vehicles at all times.
- Never walk, work, or stand under a suspended load.
- Ensure that children and unauthorised persons do not enter the workshop.
- Clients must only enter the workshop accompanied by the Service Manager.
- Do not jump from heights, unstable surfaces or moving objects.
Additional Information
Your manager will tell you on site about such things as:
- Emergency procedures and the location of the Emergency Assembly Area
- The location of the first aid kit and who is qualified to treat you if you hurt yourself.
- Who are your supervisors.
- How to report accidents and unsafe work conditions.
- What machinery you will be working with.
- Who to report harassment and bullying.
- Safe Work Procedures for tools and machines you will be working with.
