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NOTE

Under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 it is a responsibility to establish and maintain an

effective WHS management system in your workplace.


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Committed to Knowledge

1. Is the CEO or HR committed to acquiring and keeping up-to-date knowledge of work healthand safety matters? If yes why?


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Gaining an Understanding

2. Would you be willing to gain an understanding of the hazards and risks associated with the natureof the operations?


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Appropriate Resources

3. Does the Woolworths Ltd. have the appropriate resources and processes to eliminate or minimiserisk, if no why?


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Appropriate Processes

4. Does the business or undertaking have the appropriate processes for receiving and consideringinformation about incidents, hazards and risks and responding in a timely manner, if no why?


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Complying

5. Does the Woolworths Ltd. implement processes for complying with its duties and obligations, if nowhy?


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Review

6. Of the organisatio ns current WHS position, are you prepared to participate in an initial review? Aswell as, in subsequent WHS reviews?


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Injuries

7. Do you know what areas in the organisation have higher incidences of injuries? If so what arethey? Are there injury trends (i.e. stress or hazardous manual tasks)


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Commonly Reported Injuries

According to the ABS The most commonly reported injuries or illnesses were sprains and strains(30%), followed by chronic joint or muscle conditions (18%), and cuts or open wounds (16%). What is

Woolworths Ltd prepared to do in order for these reported statistics to decrease?

Commonly Reported Injuries

30% Injuries or illnesseswith sprains and strains18% Chronic joint ormuscle conditions16% Cuts or openwounds36% Other


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Information Seminar

8. In order for the WHS system to be implemented effectively would the CEO consider holding aninformation seminar to teach partakers of the importance of WHS?


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Policies and Procedures concerning aspects of human rights

9. Is the company going to try to encourage more participation of this course in 2015, or only aim tohave the same number of employees attend the training?


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OHS Training

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Around 30% of persons who worked at sometime in the last 12 months had not received formal training in occupational health and safety risks in

the workplace.

10. If not already, is the company going to make it compulsory for ALL employees to undertake thistraining when they start and throughout their employment ?


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Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) at Woolworths Ltd.

11. Judging by these statistics what is Woolworths Ltd. realistic goal for 2014 and 2015 for LTIFR?


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Divisional LTIFR Results for 2013

12. What are the LTIFR changes that are going to be introduced for these divisions in 2014 & 2015financial year plan?


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Men in the Workplace

According to the ABS in the past 12 months, more than half of people who experienced a work-related injury or illness were men making up (56%)

12. What is Woolworths Ltd. prepared to do in order for this percentage of work related injuries todecrease?


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Conclusion

What points did you think were & were not relevant to this topic?

Are there other problems that need addressing on this topic?

Are there problems with Woolworths Ltd. that were not discussed?


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