assignment

ASSESSMENT 1: WAREHOUSE STORE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Table of Contents
Mandatory Policies and Procedures    4
Basic Equipment Safety    4
Organisation of the Warehouse Space    4
Training the Employees and Recordkeeping    4
Considering safety Hazards    4
Adaption and Amendments to Existing Policies and Procedures    4
Roles and Responsibilities    5
Required Resources    5
Amendments to the Policy    5
Purpose    5
Scope    5
Responsibility    5
Budget of Proposed WHSMS    5
Report on Proposed WHSMS System    6
Introduction    6
Required Changes in Existing Policies and Procedures    6
Conclusion    6
Planning and Implementing WHS Risk Management    8
Portfolio of Evidence    8
WHS Risk Management Policies and Procedures    8
Recordkeeping Policies and Procedures    9
Implementation Plan for Controlling and Monitoring Identified Risks    10
Complete Record of Risk Assessment    10
Evaluation Report    12
Introduction    12
Recommendations after Reviewing the Existing Policies and Procedures    12
Justification for Recommendations    13
Conclusion    13
Portfolio Evidence    13
Plan for Implementation of Recommendations    13
Plan for Training and Safety Induction Session    14
References    15
Mandatory Policies and Procedures
Managing a warehouse is essential part of an industry like Australian Hardware because the processes or business operations of the industry involves procurement and delivery of goods and services, which can prove to be hazardous for the workers working within the warehouse. Implementation of policies and procedures play an important role while ensuring that the activities being conducted in the warehouse are aligned with the legal compliances and ensure that all the safety measures are being implemented to ensure safety of the workers. From the view point of a warehouse consultant some of the major policies and procedures can be explained as below:
Basic Equipment Safety
According to the nature of the business of Australian Hardware, the warehouses of the business will include moving equipments, forklifts, stackers, palter movers and other type of related machinery. Therefore, it should be ensured by the management of the business as well as the maintenance team of the organisation that the instruments are well lubricated and are not damaged in any sense to ensure that no miss happenings occur while working with these equipments (Vaughen, 2019). Moreover, the employees must be provided with other personal safety equipments such as glasses, hard hats, hand gloves and full protective suits.
Organisation of the Warehouse Space
Proper layout of the warehouse must be prepared according to the regulatory and legal compliances. Planning should be consistent. Operating schedules shall be defined properly and frequent audits must be conducted to ensure fire safety and first aid services are upto the mark.
Training the Employees and Recordkeeping
It is vital for the safety of the employees that the employees are provided with proper training to use the equipments. Standard of procedures and working instructions should be clearly stated to the workers. Record must be kept of the same.
Considering safety Hazards
All the safety hazards such as the floors, chemical hazards or hazards due to lifting or moving of heavy goods must be considered. There should be proper identification and marking of hazards (de Vries et al., 2016). Australian Hardware must consider Work Health and Safety Act 2011 and AS/NZS.
Adaption and Amendments to Existing Policies and Procedures
Certain existing and policies and procedures are in favor of Australian Hardware such as recognition of the responsibility to provide its employees and contractors with a safe working environment. However, certain amendments need to be made to the existing policies and procedures such as Australian Hardware must properly identify and mark the hazardous areas and equipments. The organisation already focuses on employee training and providing the employees with personal safety equipments, which is a good for the safety of employees. The organisation must amend its policies to ensure that proper maintenance of the equipments must be done and records must be kept of the same. Recordkeeping should be incorporated essentially into the existing policies and procedures. The organisation must adhere to the code of conduct and acts of Australian Government such as fatigue management, forklift operations, waste management, and manual handling Work Health and Safety Act 2011 and AS/NZS.
Roles and Responsibilities
In order to make necessary changes into the health and safety policy the management as well as the employees of the organisation must be very well aware of the roles and responsibilities. The management of the organisation must make necessary changes into the legislation and working practices to ensure that safe working environment can be provided and maintained. Individual employees on the other hand must ensure that they follow the follow the health and safety procedures and report all actual and potential risks to their managers.
Required Resources
Human, physical as well as financial resources will be required by the organisation. Each and every employee must be provided with at least two hours of training regarding WHSMS. This shall involve several costs entitlements cost and loss of productivity cost.
Amendments to the Policy
Purpose
The purpose of the policy is to ensure that healthy and safe working environment can be provided to the employees of Australian Hardware in accordance with the legal and ethical obligations across all the WHS nationally.
Scope
The policy shall cover all employees and contractors in WHS of the organisation.
Responsibility
The management of the organisation must make necessary changes into the legislation and working practices to ensure that safe working environment can be provided and maintained. Management must ensure that timely repair or safety check of equipments must be done. Individual employees on the other hand must ensure that they follow the follow the health and safety procedures and report all actual and potential risks to their managers. Management must focus on recordkeeping activities.
Budget of Proposed WHSMS
    Resources
    Entitlement costs including wages ($ hourly)
    Lost productivity cost ($ hourly)
    Total cost ($ hourly)
    Senior managers
    80
    110
    220
    Store managers
    40
    45
    100
    Team leaders
    30
    25
    65
    Workers
    30
    35
    30
    WHS consultants
    70
    N/A
    60
    Training Rooms
    70
    N/A
    50
    
    
    
    
Report on Proposed WHSMS System
Introduction
Warehouse management system can be defined as the management and controlling of the day to day operations of a warehouse. It is important for businesses to control the operations of their warehouse stores in entirety to ensure that they are able to meet the safety requirements along with the regulatory and legislative compliances to provide their workers with a safe workplace environment. As warehouse management system is the key part of supply chain and therefore the primary aim should be to control the movement of storage materials and effectively and efficiently the processes associated with other transactions and shipping.
It is the legal and ethical obligation of the organisation to ensure that it meets all the legal compliances throughout its warehouse stores and manages to provide its customers a safe workplace environment. Another important aspect for managing the warehouse statistically is to implement effective recordkeeping so that the organisation can be sure of warehouse compliances as well as health and safety performance.
Required Changes in Existing Policies and Procedures
In order to manage it’s WHS after expanding to huge number of 138 within the national boundaries the management and employees of the organisation must focus on necessary changes in existing policies and procedures. Polices must be amended according to legislation and the management must ensure that necessary changes are made to the basic equipment safety policy and organisation of WH space. Recordkeeping should be an essential part of the entire procedure. Training of employees regarding safety measures and use of machineries must be provided to the employees. The employees on the other hand must focus on following the health and safety procedures and assist the management of the organisation to identify and mark actual and potential risks and hazards.
In details, as Australian hardware is into a business that may require a lot of equipments and machineries in its warehouse such as forklifts and pallet movers, the management must ensure that these are properly lubricated and safe to use. According to the guide to machinery and equipment safety (2019)...