OH&S
Work Conditions
OH&S Signs
Common OH&S issues
Mixed Bag
100
A danger or risk.
What is a hazard?
100
Any extra hours worked over a 38 hour week. Extra pay is awarded.
What is overtime?
100
A green sign with white writing above doorways.
What is an exit sign?
100
Falling over an object that is in an inconvenient place.
What is tripping?
100
When you work around 38 hours in a week.
What are full time hours?
200
A form you fill out to describe an OH&S incident to your manager.
What is an incident report form?
200
It is built up over the year and entitles the worker to scheduled holidays.
What is annual leave?
200
A white sign with a red line through the middle. A cigarette is in the middle.
What is a no-smoking sign?
200
Falling over on a wet surface.
What is slipping?
200
The amount of pay you receive when you first start a career.
What is an entry level wage?
300
-To take reasonable care for their own health and safety. -To take reasonable care for the health and safety of others who may affected by their acts or omissions. -To cooperate with anything the employer does to comply with OHS requirements.
What is the OH&S responsibility of workers/employees?
300
Any days that are missed due to illness/wellbeing where the worker still gets paid.
What is sick leave?
300
A sign which needs to be put near a floor that may be wet so people can be cautious.
What is the slippery when wet sign?
300
Being tired or stressed due to work.
What is fatigue?
300
Refers to disorders that affect your mood, thinking and behavior.
What is a mental health condition?
400
Any transporting or supporting of a load (including the lifting, putting down, pushing, pulling, carrying or moving thereof) by hand or bodily force.
What is manual handling?
400
Workers are to be sent home if the temperature is over 35 degrees (in some industries).
What is the extreme weather law?
400
A yellow triangle with a bolt in the middle.
What is the high voltage sign?
400
Any build up of materials that could be set alight and cause harm.
What is a fire hazard?
400
When a worker is fired for an unfair reason.
What is unfair dismissal?
500
Are the features of a facility that eliminate, prevent, reduce or mitigate the risk to health, safety and property from potential major incidents.
What is a control measure?
500
Training and education which needs to be done in order to get a job.
What are pre-requisite qualifications?
500
A yellow sign with a black circle in the middle which is surrounded by three black circle sections.
What is the radiation sign?
500
A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome.
What is anxiety?
500
An association that has joined together with a common cause (to improve working conditions for a particular industry).
What is a union?