What are consultation requirements?
What are consultation requirements?
How must a consultation be conducted?
- that consultation must be at a time when the authority’s proposals are still at a formative stage.
- that the proposer must give sufficient reasons for any proposal to permit of intelligent consideration and response.
- that adequate time must be given for consideration and response.
What is consultation in Ohs?
Consultation is the process by which employers communicate and consult with their employees on health and safety matters by sharing information and giving employees a reasonable opportunity to express their views.
What are your legal safety obligations?
While at work a worker must: take reasonable care for their own health and safety. take reasonable care for the health and safety of others. comply with any reasonable instructions, policies and procedure given by their employer, business or controller of the workplace.
What are the legal obligations of an employer in relation to consultation?
Employers are required to consult their workers about health and safety. Employers are required to share information with anyone likely to be directly affected by a work health and safety matter. They also need to take workers’, and any other people affected, views into account.
What are the 4 main forms of the consultative process?
There are four consultation options: full public, targeted, confidential and post-decision.
Who should be involved in the consultation process?
consultation involves employers actively seeking and then taking account of the views of employees before making a decision. it involves two-way communication, with employers providing information and employees taking on the responsibility of actively participating in the process.
What are 4 issues that would be discussed in an OHS consultation?
making decisions about procedures for consulting with workers; resolving health or safety issues; monitoring health of your workers; monitoring the conditions at the workplace and providing information and training for your workers.
Who is responsible for OHS in the workplace?
employer
Health and safety at work is everyone’s responsibility. Employers have responsibilities towards you. You have responsibilities towards your employer and your co-workers. Your employer is responsible for making sure that the workplace is safe, and that your health and safety are not put at risk.
What are the OHS responsibilities of employees?
Duties of Employees
- take reasonable care for their own health and safety.
- take reasonable care for the health and safety of others who may affected by their acts or omissions.
- cooperate with anything the employer does to comply with OHS requirements.
What are an Organisation’s responsibilities and duties for consultation?
As an employer, you must consult when:
- identifying hazards and assessing risks.
- making decisions about ways to eliminate or control risks.
- changing or updating workplace facilities.
- proposing changes that may affect the health and safety of workers.
Who should be involved in consultation?
What does consultation mean under the OHS Act 2004?
In the OHS Act 2004 ‘consultation’ is described as follows: the sharing of information about health and safety matters. reasonable opportunities for employees to express their views about these matters, and the employer taking account of these views. involvement of HSRs in the consultation process.
When does an employer have to consult employees about OHS issues?
An employer can meet the legal obligations regarding consultation ( OHS Act 2004, Sections 35 and 36) with employees if they consult about OHS issues that are likely to affect these employees, even if there are no HSRs.
What is duty to consult under the Occupational Health and Safety Act?
The Occupational Health and Safety Act (2004) provides for specific consultation on a wide range of issues with both OHS reps and workers – these provisions are in Part 4 of the Act, which came into effect on January 1, 2006. Go to Duty to Consult for details on what the employer must do.
How do I comply with the OHS Act and regulations?
Cooperate with your employer about any action they take to comply with the OHS Act or Regulations. For example, use equipment properly, follow safe work policies and procedures and attend training. Don’t intentionally or recklessly interfere with or misuse anything at the workplace to support health, safety and welfare.
