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Occupational Health and Safety in New Zealand

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Plan and evaluate programmes to promote occupationalhealth and safety practice

Work Placement


Internal

Role and Responsibilities

The trust board

Approve policy changes and financial support.

General Manager

Manage potential issues, implement the health and safety plan whilst supervising it’s progress,effect and direction .

HR

Ensure all employee are experienced with health and safety as the level reaching company requirement

Financial department

Financial allocation

Health and safety officer

Develop and modify health and safety plan and regular check to prevent issues.

Training officer

Develop training program to update staff skills and prevent identified issues.

Team leaders

Monitor staff operational practice and arrange staff roster to ensure training time.

Staff

Contribute their perception of existing health and safety system and participate training to enrich knowledge and awareness with health and safety.

Clients

Contribute their prospective in regular meeting and participate health and safety practice.

External

Role and Responsibilities

Health and Safety Ministry

Provide legislative requirement and guideline in accordance with health and safety plan.

Work Safe

Monitor health and safety performance in work place.

Health and disability commissioner

Investigate health and safety issues.

ACC

Collect and analyze accident information, distribute compensation.

DHB

Provide and collect district health and safety information.

Training institute

Provide specific training course for customer needs.

The placement provider(local church)

Support the workplace environmental promotion.

Media

Explore the vital health and safety issues that profoundly impact on organisational reputation depending on how the organisation reacted with the situation.

Task 1: identification and gathering of information relevant for promoting health and

Safety

  1. Demographic profiles of the target group

Demographic Information

Could be useful for

Age(quantitative ):

Under 40: 19 staff ,

Over 40: 11staff.

What communication methods to use – young people and older people may have different preferences in the way they are communicated with. For example younger people may prefer to be communicated to via social type media.

Gender(quantitative) :

9 male staff ,

21 female staff.

After comparing to accident record, there was no necessary connection in between accident and injury corresponded to the proportional gender mixed in the workplace.

English as a second language(quantitative) :

4 Indian 4Chinese 2 Filipino

Deciding what communication methods should be used for promoting health and safety programme.For example, the provided material and the vocabulary need to be clear, simple, and direct.

Education background(qualitative, and quantitative):

All staff have certain qualification related with their work.

Deciding how health and safety programme should be developed and implemented to avoid confusion and misunderstanding.

Cultural background (qualitative):

Although some staff are from different culture, but they have been in New Zealand many years, and had been educated in multiculture environment. Thus, they all could professionally distinguish work and their personal life.

Deciding how health and safety programme should be developed and implemented to avoid confusion and offence

  1. Output of research of relevant literature

The National Occupational Health and Safety Advisory Council (NOHSAC) commissioned the development of a comprehensive technical report setting out the parameters of New Zealand’s occupational health and safety System.

This technical report:

• describes the history of occupational health and safety in New Zealand, with a particular focus on the reforms of the 1980s and 1990s in order to provide context for discussions of the service delivery today

• outlines some of the key principles underpinning New Zealand’s approach to preventing harm in the workplace

• details New Zealand’s current occupational health and safety system

• outlines key issues with the current system, as identified by stakeholders, which may restrict the achievement of health and safety outcomes

• provides the basis for developing a national profile documenting New Zealand’s occupational health and safety system (as per one of the obligations of International Labour Office Convention 155).

General statistics about occupational health and safety (quantitative) in this report outlines a range of demographic and economic indicators that give context for discussions about workrelated injury and disease. In addition, it provides a range of indicators about exposure rates, and the mortality and morbidity burdens created by work-related disease and injury. The most significant findings are that:

• the mortality burden is higher for work-related disease than injury

• the morbidity burden is considerably higher for work-related injury than disease

• the key causes of the work-related burden of disease are cancer, musculoskeletal diseases and injuries, falls,respiratory disease and circulatory diseases

• the economic cost of work-related disease and injury is approximately $5 billion per annum, but this figure climbs to $21 billion when the social costs are included.

Source from :The National Occupational Health and Safety Advisory Council (NOHSAC),

occupational health and safety report 7. Retrieved from

http://www.dol.govt.nz/

  1. Any relevant content from course you have attended (quantitative and qualitative)

course

content

NZQA - L2

20826

Demonstrate knowledge of infection control requirements in a health and disability setting

NZQA - L3

23386

Support a person to meet personal care needs in an aged care, health, or disability context

NZQA - L3

5012

Demonstrate musculo-skeletal care and handle people safely in a health or disability setting

NZQA - L3

16870

Demonstrate knowledge of causes and associated conditions related to intellectual disability

NZQA - L6

18414

Research hauora Māori trends and paradigms from 1919 to the present day

NZQA - L6

5615

Develop system for occupational health and safety management

practice

NZQA - L6

5621

Plan and evaluate programmes to promote occupational

health and safety practice

St Johns

First aid

Workplace

Induction

Policy and procedure, infection control, evacuation,accident report,

use of equipment, responsibilities of the position.

  1. Peer networking

I had discussion with other staff in my workplace to gather their concerns about particular work practices that could be improved in terms of their safety (qualitative information). We discussed those identified issues regarding Inventories systems, Training Records,Policies and Procedures,Staff meeting records, and standards.Finally we have reached consensus about the necessity of improvement.

5. Other information sources including databases, libraries, accident and /or incident report

In 2012, the Government set a target for reducing fatalities and serious injury by at least 25 per

cent by 2020. The interim target is a reduction of at least 10 per cent by 2016.

The target is measured using three indicators.

1. The age-standardised rate of fatal work-related injury

2. The age-standardised rate of serious non-fatal work-related injury

3. The rate of work-related injury with more than a week away from work

The first two indicators are the work-related serious injury outcome indicators. These are

published annually by Statistics New Zealand. They are the official measures of injury trends in New Zealand. The third indicator is based on Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) claims data. It is less robust for measuring injury trends than the official indicators, but is timelier and represents a much broader definition of what constitutes serious injury.

Source: Statistics New Zealand (2013) Serious Injury Outcome Indicators 2000-12 (quantitative): Fatal work-related injury rates were falling between 2002 and 2008. The increase in rates in 2009(average for 2008 to 2010) and 2010 (average for 2009 to 2011) reflect the 2010 Pike River Coal Mine Tragedy (29 work-related fatalities) and the 2011 Canterbury earthquake (59 work-related fatalities).

Source: Statistics New Zealand (2013) Serious Injury Outcome Indicators: 2000-12 (quantitative)

The baseline uses the most recent three years of final data available at the time the targets were

set. In the case of the serious non-fatal work-related indicator, the baseline is the average rate for 2008 to 2010. In 2011 rates were two per cent higher than the baseline, in 2012 this fell to less than one per cent below the baseline.

Source from : Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment.Work safer progress towards

2020 target. Retrieved from http://www.mbie.govt.nz/

The organisation strictly follows the legislative Requirements of accident /incident report are :details of all reportable incidents, injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences must be recorded, including: the date when the report is made; the method of reporting; the date, time and place of the event; personal details of those involved; a brief description of the nature of the event or disease.The details in your accident register should feed into your hazard management process. They can be used to describe and analyse accidents and think about how to eliminate or manage the risks involved to prevent accidents recurring.

Source from: Business.Govt.NZ. Health and safety reporting. Retrieved from

http://www.business.govt.nz/

New Zealand Legislation.Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992, Section

25 Recording and notification of accidents and serious harm.Retrieved

from http://legislation.govt.nz/

New Zealand Legislation.Accident Compensation Act 2001,Section 37 Date on

which person is to be regarded as suffering personal injury caused by

work-related gradual process, disease, or infection. Retrieved

from:http://www.legislation.govt.nz/

6. Accident compensation corporation experience rating record

The lead agency for the rehabilitation and compensation system is the Accident Compensation Corporation. This agency is charged with delivering a 24-hour, no-fault, comprehensive insurance system for personal injuries that occur in New Zealand (including work-related injuries). The Accident Compensation Corporation also operates the claims system, which provides cover for any personal injuries arising from work (provided they meet the definition

of personal injury governing cover under the Act). The Accident Compensation Corporation has a key function of preventing injury, which is given effect through the incentives programmes and other specific programmes targeted at reducing the impact of occupational injury and disease. ACC experience rating records show that the organisation is currently paying reduced levy comparing with previous years. That clearly reflects the organisation was determined with low level of work related accident claims.

7. Identified impacts of other existing or proposed programmes

Staff are skilled due to they all have work related qualification and the existing and proposed programmes provided in work placement. Especially, everyone should attend to induction when starting work , thus they could clearly know about policy and procedure, evacuation,use of equipment, requirement of accident report , work responsibilities and avoidance. Those can effectively prevent common health and safety mistake. Besides,the organisation presents staff involved health and safety audit which encourages staff participation and increases their awareness to issues identification and self-management.

Task 2: analysis of information focused on health promotion and injury prevention

Task 3: development of programme strategies that will reduce the incident and severity

of work-related injury and illness

Task 4: develop evaluation programme

Task 5: identification and location of resource needed for developed programme

Reference

The National Occupational Health and Safety Advisory Council (NOHSAC), occupational

health and safety report 7. Retrieved from http://www.dol.govt.nz/

Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment.Work safer progress towards

2020 target. Retrieved from http://www.mbie.govt.nz/

Business.Govt.NZ. Health and safety reporting. Retrieved from

http://www.business.govt.nz/

New Zealand Legislation.Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992, Section

25 Recording and notification of accidents and serious harm.Retrieved

from http://legislation.govt.nz/

New Zealand Legislation.Accident Compensation Act 2001,Section 37 Date on

which person is to be regarded as suffering personal injury caused by

work-related gradual process, disease, or infection. Retrieved

from:http://www.legislation.govt.nz/

Student Name:Dan Liu Student ID:13010415 Subject:5621

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