This includes hazard management, accident reporting, safety checklists, emergency procedures and accident reporting. The new Act imposes a duty on officers to exercise diligence” to ensure that your “due organisation complies with its duties. Officer is defined and includes Committee members (of incorporated societies) and others who make decisions that affect the whole or a substantial part of the business or undertaking (e.g. Health and Safety Officer, Club Administrators). Whether you are a PCBU or a purely voluntary sporting organisation, there are some fundamental health and safety considerations that you must take. Due diligence is defined and will require officers of the organisation to take reasonable steps to: Understand the PCBU’s operations and associated hazards Ensure that the PCBU has, and implements appropriate health and safety processes Ensure that these processes are sufficiently resourced and that their use is monitored and verified. Therefore it is vital that health and safety becomes part of the ongoing agenda for the Committee and is discussed and reviewed in a systematic way. Practically speaking this may meaning that health and safety issues are discussed at ever Committee meeting. Are there any new hazards? Have there been any incidents, reported or otherwise? What training is required? And a timetable set of full site inspections, hazard register reviews and reviews of this plan for any additions as a result of legislative change. Health and safety must become part of the way rugby clubs operate and act, much the same way the muster’ rolls ‘club around every year. Committees have a responsibility for Health and Safety Governance within their rugby club.
This includes hazard management, accident reporting, safety checklists, emergency procedures and accident reporting. The new Act imposes a duty on officers to exercise “due diligence” to ensure that your organisation complies with its duties. Officer is defined and includes Committee members (of incorporated societies) and others who make decisions that affect the whole or a substantial part of the business or undertaking (e.g. Health and Safety Officer, Club Administrators). Whether you are a PCBU or a purely voluntary sporting organisation, there are some fundamental health and safety considerations that you must take. Due diligence is defined and will require officers of the organisation to take reasonable steps to: Understand the PCBU’s operations and associated hazards Ensure that the PCBU has, and implements appropriate health and safety processes Ensure that these processes are sufficiently resourced and that their use is monitored and verified. Therefore it is vital that health and safety becomes part of the ongoing agenda for the Committee and is discussed and reviewed in a systematic way. Practically speaking this may meaning that health and safety issues are discussed at ever Committee meeting. Are there any new hazards? Have there been any incidents, reported or otherwise? What training is required? And a timetable set of full site inspections, hazard register reviews and reviews of this plan for any additions as a result of legislative change. Health and safety must become part of the way rugby clubs operate and act, much the same way the ‘club muster’ rolls around every year. Committees have a responsibility for Health and Safety Governance within their rugby club.
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