SITXWHS003

Application

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to implement predetermined work health and safety practices designed, at management level, to ensure a safe workplace. It requires the ability to monitor safe work practices and coordinate consultative arrangements, risk assessments, work health and safety training, and the maintenance of records.

The unit applies to all tourism, travel, hospitality and event sectors and to any small, medium or large organisation.

It applies to those people who operate independently or with limited guidance from others. This includes supervisors and departmental managers.

Unit mapping information

SITXWHS401 Implement and monitor work health and safety practices

Licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements

This unit incorporates the requirement, under state and territory work health and safety (WHS) legislation, for businesses to take a systematic approach to managing the safety of their workers and anyone else in the workplace.

No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

Foundation skills

Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.

Unit sector or competency field

Cross-Sector—Work Health and Safety

Prerequisite, co-requisite or interdependent assessment of units

Not applicable

Assessment conditions

Skills must be demonstrated in an operational tourism, travel, hospitality or events business operation where WHS management practices are implemented and monitored. This can be:

• an industry workplace
• a simulated industry environment

Assessment must ensure access to:

• computers, software programs, printers and communication technology used to administer the implementation and monitoring of a WHS system
• relevant state or territory WHS legislation
• current plain English regulatory documents distributed by the local WHS government regulator
• codes of practice and standards issued by government regulators or industry groups
• WHS information and business management manuals issued by industry associations or commercial publishers
• current commercial WHS policies and procedures
• operational team for which the individual coordinates WHS management practices; this can be:

  • teams in an industry workplace who are assisted by the individual during the assessment process; or

  • individuals who participate in role plays or simulated activities, set up for the purpose of assessment, in a simulated industry environment operated within a training organisation

Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations’ requirements for assessors.