To see how well you are going with health and safety management, ask yourself and your workers the following questions.
Questions
- Have you and your workers managed hazards – ie identified them, decided which are significant, and taken action to deal with them?
- Do you check regularly that you have dealt with hazards effectively?
- Do you and your workers check for hazards when there is new or changed equipment or procedures?
- Do you tell contractors about hazards and find out what hazards they bring into your workplace?
- Do you have an employee participation system, and discuss health and safety with your workers?
- Do you provide a workplace introduction (induction or orientation) that includes health and safety for new workers?
- Do you provide staff with adequate health and safety information and training, and supervise workers until they can work safely?
- Do workers report incidents and injuries, and do you investigate them?
- If applicable – have you supported injured workers to stay at work (safely) or to return as soon as possible?
Outcome
If you answered ‘Yes’ to all of the questions applicable to your business, congratulations – you are doing very well with health and safety in your workplace.
If you answered ‘No’ to any of the questions, you should note down the actions you and your workers need to take, and plan for making the changes needed. See ACC WorkSafe Cycle.
Last updated: 1 April 2011