When working as an Enrolled Nurse, it is important for you to understand the Sta

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When working as an Enrolled Nurse, it is important for you to understand the State/Territory legislation underpinning the workplace health and safety. You must also analyse how it impacts on workplace regulations, codes of practice and industry standards.

1.1)   Identify the workplace health and safety legislation applicable to your State/Territory and describe the key objectives of the identified Act that is relevant to your nursing practice (in 50-70 words).

1.2)   Identify the workplace health and safety regulations applicable to your State/Territory. Briefly describe the impact of the WHS Act on the identified regulations (in 50-70 words).

1.3)   Describe the impact of the identified WHS Act on the Code of Practice - Work Health and Safety Consultation, Co-operation and Co-ordination (in 50-70 words).

1.4)   Describe the scope and objective of the 'National Standard for Manual Tasks' (in 30-40 words).

1.5)   Identify the WHS authority relevant to your State/Territory and describe how they assist the organisations in complying with the WHS Act (in 50-70 words).

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1.1)

1.2)

1.3)

Consultation

Conference with other obligation holders empowers everybody related with the work to have a mutual comprehension of what the dangers are, which specialists are influenced, how dangers will be controlled, and how obligation holders will cooperate to design and oversee wellbeing and security.

Co-operation

Co-operation implies that, on the off chance that you are drawn closer by other obligation holders needing to counsel with you on a WHS matter, you should react to any sensible demands and help them in meeting their obligations.

Co-ordination

Co-ordination implies that obligation holders cooperate with the goal that every individual can meet their obligation of care. This incorporates ensuring that the measures you each set up work successfully together to control the dangers.

1.4) SCOPE

The extent of this Standard is manual undertakings in the work environment.

This Standard applies to:

Objectives

The objective of this National Standard is to reduce the incidence and severity of musculoskeletal

disorders to workers performing manual tasks

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