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CHC50113 Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care HLTWHS003 Maintain work health and safety Student Name: XXXXXX Student Number: XXXXXX Assessment: 31871/01 All terms mentioned in this text that are known to be trademarks or service marks have been appropriately capitalised. Use of a term in this text should not be regarded as affecting the validity of any trademark or service mark. © Open Colleges Pty Ltd, 2015 All rights reserved. No part of the material protected by this copyright may be reproduced or utilised in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. File naming Once you feel confident that you have covered the learning materials for this unit, you are ready to attempt this assessment. To help Open Colleges manage your assessment, please use the following file-naming convention when you save your Microsoft Word document. 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Open CollegesAssessment HLTWHS003 Maintain work health and safety Page 2 of 18 Getting started The assessment tasks in this booklet have been designed to allow you to provide evidence that demonstrates your competence in the unit HLTWHS003 Maintain health and safety. Your trainer will: · answer any questions that you might have about the assessment · assess your competence as required by the unit of competency, by making judgments about the evidence you have presented in line with the rules of evidence: validity, authenticity, currency and sufficiency · provide feedback on the outcomes of the assessment process Introduction You are required to complete one written task, which has two components and a project for HLTWHS003 Maintain health and safety. In completing the final assessments, you will show evidence of your ability to: · contribute to workplace procedures for identifying hazards and controlling risks · implement policies and procedures into work team processes · support consultation, cooperation and communication. Assessment number Assessment deliverables 31871/01 Written tasks 31871/02 Project 31871/01 Written tasks Part A - Short answer questions Student instructions · Answer each of the questions below. · Your responses may be recorded or presented in a written format. Written responses for each answer should be approximately 100 words in length. The written responses may be presented in narrative or bullet point format. · To help answer questions accurately, you may refer to applicable legislation in your state or territory, recommendations from a recognised health authority, policies and procedures common to early childhood education and care services, position descriptions detailing an educator’s duty of care responsibilities, and/or other sources such as professional readings along with the course textbooks and identified key resources. · Ensure that you acknowledge and cite your sources accordingly. This is important whether you use your own words or quote the author’s words. For more information on referencing and plagiarism, refer to the ‘Academic reference guide’ in the Student Handbook. · When referring to early childhood education and care service policies and procedures or position descriptions, please submit copies with your assessment to support your answers. Questions 1. What are the essential state and territory work health and safety (WHS) laws of which educators in education and care services need to be aware? (Enter Response Here) Office use only Assessor Feedback Trainers Name, Date 2. Under WHS legislation, PCBUs* are required to consult with workers and to consider their views. Describe how a PCBU could encourage a work team to participate in WHS consultation activities and to contribute to WHS. *A PCBU is the ‘persons conducting a business or undertaking’. (Enter Response Here) Office use only Assessor Feedback Trainers Name, Date 3. In a typical education and care service, many situations can result in an emergency. According to WHS legislation, services must provide procedures for workers when responding to emergency incidents. Explain how you would respond to the following emergency situations: a) a fire b) a bomb threat c) a medical emergency (e.g. a child choking or having an allergic reaction). a. (Enter Response Here) b. (Enter Response Here) c. (Enter Response Here) Office use only Assessor Feedback a. b. c. Trainers Name, Date 4. Complete the following table that identifies some common safety scenarios in early childhood education and care services. For each scenario, identify the possible hazard/WHS issue and provide a solution. Scenario Identified hazard / WHS issue Solution A worker falls Increase in staff sick days Back injury Scalding Outbreak of gastroenteritis Office use only Assessor Feedback Trainers Name, Date 5. Identify five (5) key principles of hazard identification and risk assessment. (Enter Response Here) Office use only Assessor Feedback Trainers Name, Date 6. Describe four (4) ways that services could regularly provide information about WHS policies, procedures, hazards and the outcomes of risk assessments to the service’s work team. (Enter Response Here) Office use only Assessor Feedback Trainers Name, Date 7. Housekeeping’ in relation to WHS refers to how the environment is regularly maintained so that it stays in a clean, tidy and safe state. Complete the table that follows to describe how educators should take joint responsibility for monitoring housekeeping to address the common hazards listed. Hazard Housekeeping monitoring Toys and equipment left on the floor or ground Spills on floors Overloaded shelving Resources and equipment stored in an unsafe or unstable manner Cluttered or blocked walkways, entrances and exits Inappropriate storage of chemicals and dangerous items Unhygienic waste management and disposal Unsecured power cords Office use only Assessor Feedback Trainers Name, Date 8. What does the term ‘duty of care’ mean when applied to the workplace? (Enter Response Here) Office use only Assessor Feedback Trainers Name, Date 9. Identify three (3) risk control/safety procedures that should be implemented in a typical early childhood education and care service (e.g. the storage of dangerous products and daily safety checks). Explain the strategies that you would use to follow these procedures. Procedure Strategies to follow these procedures Office use only Assessor Feedback Trainers Name, Date Part B - Case studies Student instructions · Read the following case studies and then answer the questions. · Your responses may be recorded or presented in a written format. Written responses for each answer should be approximately 50–150 words in length. The written responses may be presented in narrative or bullet point format. · To help answer questions accurately, you may refer to applicable legislation in your state or territory, recommendations from a recognised health authority, policies and procedures common to early childhood education and care services, position descriptions detailing an educator’s duty of care responsibilities, and/or other sources such as professional readings along with the course textbooks and identified key resources. · Ensure you acknowledge and cite your sources accordingly. This is important whether you use your own words or quote the author’s words. For more information on referencing and plagiarism, refer to the ‘Academic reference guide’ in the Student Handbook. · When referring to policies and procedures or position descriptions please submit copies with your assessment to support your answer. Case Study 1 Indira is an educator at a 25-place preschool licensed to care for 3–5 year old children, and which is located on the edge of a public park. She has been asked by the Director to carry out a routine safety check (using a safety check form) of the outdoor play environment. This includes the climbing equipment, sandpit, storage shed, gardens, trees and fences. Indira uses a safety checklist to assist her in this task. On the safety check form, Indira has noted sharp edges on the corner of the metal shed, some peeling paint on the climbing frames, a low-hanging branch and a loose latch on the entrance gate. The gardens are well maintained and the sand in the sandpit has recently been replaced. Answer the following questions. 1. Identify three (3) existing hazards that Indira finds and three (3) potential hazards that may pose a risk in the future. Existing hazards: 1. (Enter Response Here) 2. (Enter Response Here) 3. (Enter Response Here) Potential Hazards: 1. (Enter Response Here) 2. (Enter Response Here) 3. (Enter Response Here) Office use only Assessor Feedback Trainers Name, Date 2. Record the identified hazards, both existing and potential, in the table below and list the action/strategies required to control the risks posed by these hazards. Existing and potential hazards Action/strategies required Three (3) existing hazards: Three (3) potential hazards: Office use only Assessor Feedback Trainers Name, Date 3. Choose one of the hazards that Indira identified. Using the hierarchy of risk control, identify a combination of two or more controls that could be used to address the hazard. (Enter Response Here) Office use only Assessor Feedback Trainers Name, Date Case Study 2 Justin is the newly appointed director of a 40-place long day care service. He wants to gather information about his work team’s understanding of work health and safety (WHS) and to ask them to contribute to WHS matters. Justin decides to create a survey to gather feedback from his team to seek their input about WHS matters in the service. Complete the following tasks. 1. Write an introduction for Justin’s WHS survey that briefly describes: · the importance and benefits of work team members contributing to WHS · the ways in which work team members can contribute to WHS. (Enter Response Here) Office use only Assessor Feedback Trainers Name, Date 2. Develop survey questions to determine how well the service consults with its employees on the following WHS matters: · understanding of the term ‘WHS’ and current WHS laws · WHS practices in the service including the WHS issue resolution process · where to find the service’s WHS policies and procedures · the arrangements in place for WHS consultation in the service · the work team members’ feelings regarding how they are consulted on WHS matters in the workplace · any changes that they believe would improve WHS consultation in the workplace · whether they have recently contributed to WHS in the workplace · how they would like