Answer To: 2006EHR Assignment – Workplace Audit / Inspection BASIC INFO = APP. 3000 WORDS + TABLES Introduction...
Rimsha answered on May 30 2021
Running Head: HUDSONS COFFEE 1
HUDSONS COFFEE 3
WORKPLACE HEALTH & SAFETY AUDIT
HUDSONS COFFEE
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Industry Research 5
Social Factors 7
Inspection Results: Summary of Duties and Overall Compliance & Consultative Arrangements 9
Inspection Results – Hazards, Risk and Controls 10
References 12
Appendix 13
Table 1: Duties 13
Table 2: System of Risk Management 14
Table 3: Consultation 15
Table 4: Hazard Identification Register 16
Table 5: Risk Identification Register 17
Table 6: Risk Assessment (see appended risk calculators for details) 18
Introduction
The organization selected for the conduction of the workplace audit is Hudsons coffee. Hudsons coffee was found in December 1998 in Australia by Ros Hudson and Mark Hawthorne. The first outlet of the organization was open at Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. The coffee started as the family-oriented business, which gave good discounts to the family and friends. The second store was opened in 1999, later in 2001; company opened its first store outside the Victoria. Until 2003, Hudsons coffee becomes the franchise operation. Until 2009, organization is successful in opening of 38 outlets.
The Hudsons coffee is an Australian chain of coffee retailers, which consist of 67 stores all over Australia. Apart from this, organization is successful in opening one store at Singapore Changi International Airport. Currently, this organization is part of the Emirates Leisure Retail (Australia) Pty. Ltd. They served coffee, tea, pastry, and other food item, which can be used as the refreshment along with coffee. In this assignment, focus is made on the cooking area of the coffee.
It has been seen that there are more than 500 employees working in the organization. A number of employees working in each outlet vary. This organization belongs to the food industry. It needs to follow the workplace safety for the food industry. This organization produces the similar product in all their outlets; they serve different varieties of coffees, teas, pastries, croissant, and sandwiches.
According to the Safe work Australia, the number of food organization and employees working in the organization are increasing constantly over the past 11 years. Nearly 3.8 million people are associated in the fast food industry and their turnover has been increased by 150%. The reports from the Safework Australia (2020) stated that over the past 15 years, the injuries related to the food and accommodation industry has been decreased up to 15%.
However, the safety concern in the food industry remains high. Around 6,310 of serious injury and death cases were registered in year 2014-15. Given the high-risk nature of the food industry, the ranking of the injuries claimed in the industry holds the eighth position. The Safe work Australia reported one death in 2018, which is 0.1% of the death rates. On the contrary, the death between 2014 and 2018 is relatively high. It is estimated around 2%. Although, the death of the workers is very low but the occurrence of the diseases in the food industry is very high.
The primary duty of the employer conducting the business is they must ensure health and safety of the employees engaged in the organization and all the employees who perform activities under the guidance of the employer (WHS Act s.19). On the contrary, it is a duty of the employees to work cautiously to ensure reasonable care for his safety and health (WHS Act s.28). In food industry, the risk of injury and disease can be equal. One of the biggest risks can be observed in the kitchen where employees must work under high heat, contamination of the food, slipper floors, fire and other appliances, which can easily catches fire.
There is availability of the hierarchy of risk control, which is helpful in controlling the level of risk that a worker in the organization can be subjected to. There are three levels present in the hierarchy of control, which is highest level of protection to reliability to the lowest level of the control. The priority of the control is removal of the hazardous manual tasks and risk associated with it, there must be monitoring of the health of the workers and condition of the place to prevent all kinds of possible injuries in the organization (WHS Act 19 (3) g).
This audit/inspection was executed at the Hudson coffee, Brisbane. This inspection focused on the health and safety of the workers working in the kitchen located at the terrace of the private hospital. The hazard focused on was working under the extreme temperature in the closed room. Proper ventilation and the fire control measures are the best control measures to minimize the risk of death due to suffocation and fire. This inspection shows that the Hudson coffee comply with all legislation involved in the safety and protection from the fire in the kitchen under the relevant Workplace Healthy and Safety Act, Regulation and Code of Practices.
Industry Research
According to the Safe work Australia, it has been identified that the Food industry is among the priority industry for work health and safety. It has been seen that health and safety of the employees and customers are associated with each other. It has been seen that food developed by the employee working in the kitchen is directly consumed by the employees, when employees work in the unhealthy condition, the often contaminated the food.
This contamination resulted in affecting the health of the customer consuming the relative food. Thus, there are two standards, which are applied in the kitchen. One is workplace health and safety standards and food safety standards. There are certain regulations, which often overlapped. For example, both food and safety standards and workplace safety standards emphasize on the proper location of the toilet and away from the kitchen areas so that kitchen area is not contaminated.
According to the Safework Australia, in year 2017-18, the frequency rate of serious claims made by the one per 1000 employees is 6.6%. Apart from this, 6.1% claimed the musculoskeletal disorder in the food industry. It has been seen that the compensation made between the 2001 and 2017 in the food industry has been increased to the 106%. The position, which is hold by the industry in context of the serious injuries claim in 2017, is 8th.
This is because over the period improvement in context of the workplace safety in food industry has been significantly improved, it has been seen that there is significant rate of reduction in making serious claims in the food industry; the reduction is up to 15%. It must be noted that increase in the cases of the food poisoning resulted into increase in the inspection of the food industry. As a...