Across
- 2. The NSW Government organisation responsible for enforcing WHS law. Worker includes any person who carries out work for a PCBU.
- 3. The responsibility of the employer to look after the health and safety of people at work.
- 7. products that can harm a person's health through illness, injury or disease e.g. cleaning solvents and chemicals.
- 9. Anything that might cause harm to a person.
- 12. An industrial organisation that represents its workers.
- 13. The person chosen by the employer to organise and oversee the work carried out by workers.
- 14. Bring together workers and management to assist in the development and review of health and safety policies and procedures for the workplace. Health and safety representative - represent workers on health and safety matters
- 16. Instruction on how to do a job safely e.g. operating a forklift or lifting hoist.
Down
- 1. Any place where a worker goes, or is likely to be, while at work.
- 4. he process of managing risks caused by hazards in the workplace. Risk management involves hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control
- 5. The probability that harm might come to a person.
- 6. lifting, lowering and moving of objects by a person e.g. carrying boxes or house bricks
- 8. A method of deciding what is the best or most practical way to reduce the risk of injury by an identified hazard e.g. stopping the loud noises in a factory is better than handing out ear plugs.
- 10. The sharing of information and exchange of views on WHS matters between managers and workers or their representatives. This may also include participating in decision-making on WHS issues.
- 11. Equipment used by workers to protect themselves from hazards in the workplace such as safety boots and helmets, gloves, goggles, aprons or sunscreen
- 15. When a person becomes ill because of mental strain causing psychological illness through negative experiences at work.