Workplace Health and

Safety

Orientation

Aims and objectives

At the end of this session participants will be able to:

• Be familiar with Workplace Health & Safety

Overview.

• Provide details on Injury Management and where

to record such details and what to do in the event

of a injury/hazard.

Topics for Discussion

Workplace Health & Safety Overview

Chemical Hazardous Substance Management

BEIMS

Risk Management System

Staff Rehabilitation and RTW Program

Smoking Laws

Workplace Health & Safety

The Workplace Health & Safety Program has been

developed to ensure compliance with relevant

legislation and to also meet the needs of each of our

facilities.

So how do we as Health Care Facilities ensure

compliance with Legislation?

Workplace Health & Safety

We do that by adhering to the Workplace Health &

Safety Act 2011 and Regulations 2011 and the

various Codes of Practice.

National Harmonisation Laws came into practice from

the 01/01/2012 where Australia has been working

toward ALL states and Territories having the same

OH&S laws. Where possible these will remain exactly

the same all around Australia

The objective is to minimise problems with trying to

comply with nine different sets of laws

Workplace Health & Safety

The ACT is the umbrella or the big picture

The REGULATION is more detail with laws

The CODES OF PRACTICE give specific guidance

eg First Aid Code of Practice

AND

The STANDARDS provide guidance documents and

support

Workplace Health & Safety

As an employee you are obliged to:

To ensure their own health and safety and act responsibly.

Use the appropriate Personal Protective Equipment where provided

To ensure the health and safety of each of their co-workers eg: wipe up/or notify someone that there is a spill on the floor if you find it. Place ‘wet floor signs’ around it.

Workplace Health & Safety

The Employer also has obligations to ensure:

Health and Safety of each worker in the facility

Also to provide health and safety to other people who

are not workers – clients/visitors/ general public

Provide safe plant and equipment

Provide training to workers

Chemical & Hazardous

Substances Management Mercy Health and Aged Care Central Queensland have

adopted the CHEMWATCH online program for the

management of Chemicals and Hazardous substances.

This program is available through the Intranet on the

Applications tab with the following icon. The user clicks on

the icon which directs you to the program you then type in

the chemical name and press enter, the program will then

search and provide the SDS (Safety Data Sheet) which tells

you the relevant information about the product

Chemical & Hazardous

Substances Management

The WH&S Department conducts risk assessments

on hazardous substances. The WH&S Department

must be notified of any chemicals that are required to

be brought into the facilities for whatever reason i.e.

trial similar product etc, this is imperative to ensure we

are meeting our obligations and not putting staff and

patients and visitors at risk of an exposure.

Staff are not to bring in their own substances and use

them

Equipment Defects

What To Do

Report defect to Supervisor and tag with a red

FAULT tag

Enter defect on Maintenance request system (BEIMS)

before the end of your shift.

If an incident occurs, LEAVE THE SETUP AS IS AND

RECORD SETTINGS, REPORT INCIDENT

IMMEDIATELY.

BEIMS Log-in

Adding a BEIMS Request

What is a

Risk Management System A computer program that enables all staff to report and classify incidents/events & hazards. As soon as you submit your event, it goes directly to your Manager to flag that there is an incident there for them to review. At Mercy Health we use RISKMAN to record/report the following:

Incidents, events, hazards

Compliments, Complaints, Ideas, Suggestion

Risk Management System -

Feedback A Complaint is an expression of dissatisfaction or

concerns about a health care service made by patients,

carers, staff, community. A complaint maybe made in

person, by phone, fax, email or in writing.

Complaints are “opportunities’ to improve and provide the

best possible care and service.

• Compliments

• Complaints

• Ideas

• Suggestions

Incident Reporting System

RISKMAN is accessible by an individual password

set up. This password never expires and it is your

personal password.

It records ALL of the incidents, near misses or

hazards that occur within the facility whether it be

environmental or person related

Staff Rehabilitation Return

to Work Program

Aim of the Program – to provide rehabilitation and return to work support

to ensure the safe return to work for all staff members whether it is a

Work or Non-Work related injury and illness

All injuries that affect your work need to be reported to the Rehabilitation

& Return to Work Coordinator and in conjunction with Doctors, your Area

Manager and RTW coordinator a Suitable Duties Plan will be developed.

Reporting Methods – When you sustain an injury at work it must be

reported to your Supervisor/Manager and you must log a report on the

RiskMan incident reporting system, your Manager will then follow-up as

necessary and contact the Return to Work Coordinator to assist with

completion of paperwork and any other necessary arrangements.

New Smoking Laws

NO SMOKING POLICY to be adhered to.

New ‘No Smoking’ tobacco laws commence 1st

January 2015. These laws were instigated by the QLD

Government

Smoking is NOT permitted within our private healthcare

facilities and grounds .

The restriction is 5 meters buffer zone from the boundary

line of the grounds.