Develop, Implement and Maintain WHS Management Systems

INTRODUCTION

The OH&S matters at the workplace, has to be defined as an essential component and as an obligation in regard of the laws and regulations, when running a business activity. The risk is inherent to humans and every kind of human business deals with risks. More precisely, the risk is the combination of the probability and the consequences of a specify danger to occur, something the retail industry over looked. In regards of the Work Health and Safety Legislation 2012 (Work Cover Authority 2012), which aims to prevent injuries and illness to people at work, a manager of a retail store, must involve its employees in health and safety matters and encourage employee’s associations to promote workplace health and safety, and protect the public from injury or illness arising from workplaces. Has an employer the WH&S define its duties as, to ensure the safety and well-being of its employees and all kind of third persons in the workplace.

I / Manager' Duties In OH&S Matters

According to the Work Health and Safety Legislation 2012 (Work Cover Authority 2012), a manager have to comply with the notion of duty of care. These duties can be defined around five major points, as follows:

• Provide a safe place of work for the staff

The work environment like the front of house areas accessible for both customers and employees and the back of house (work facilities) must be free of hazards and risks to the health and safety of the staff and the customers.

• Provide a safe system of work for the staff

The employer have to consider their hazard and risks' exposure when the employees are doing their job, and to provide them the best procedures to avoid or reduce the impact of these hazard and risks on their health and safety.

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... effectively realised by the employees, it demand to the managerial functions to focus on a new knowledge of the work, to spot the defects of the organisation (management of the unforeseen). The adaptation of the organisation in the risks prevention requires new skills for the work tasks, adaptation of the equipment or training for the workers.

CONCLUSION

The risk management as a component of the workplace organisation is a duty of the employer.

Avoiding or reducing the risk, need to go through a process of analysis to determinate the right path to integrate it as a driver of the management about health and safety issues for their workforce.

It is a question before any setting up a working environment guaranteeing the well-being, the health and the security of the employees and to create a workplace favourable to the development of the performance of the business.