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The objective of the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) legislation
is for employers and employees to cooperate to develop a safe work
environment by providing regulations and guidelines for each party
to fulfil their duty of care in managing risk.
The School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE)
is pro-active to ensure the safety its staff and students and have
developed OHS procedures to manage the risks in SPREE. It is important
for staff and students to be well informed in SPREE OHS procedures
and comply with the SPREE Risk Management Procedure. Below is a
number of important OHS information source:
SPREE OHS FTP Central Records
SPREE has developed an OHS Central Records
FTP site (accessible within SPREE Intranet only) to provide
SPREE staff and students the means to find important official SPREE
OHS related information such as the OHS procedures, space/environment
risk assessment, equipment/plant risk assessment and process safe
operating procedures.
SPREE Risk Management Procedure and Safe Operating Procedure
and Risk Assessment
SPREE Risk Management
Procedure is the main document which provides SPREE staff and
students SPREE risk management procedures. Below are also two useful
sources of OHS information:
- UNSW OHS Policies and Procedures in the OHS
and Workers Compensation website.
- Governmental OHS related Acts and Regulation, Standards, Code
of Practise and other useful resources, click here.
The overall SPREE Risk Management Procedure is illustrated in the
diagram below:
Risk Identification/Quantification
SPREE has developed Safety
Operating Procedure and Risk Assessment Templates (SOPRA)
to assist SPREE staff and students document and develop safe working
procedure through a systematic methodology of assessing risks
and developing practical control measures. A User
Guide to how the templates are to be used is available.
Other essential documents:
Risk Monitoring/Control/Management
Once a SOPRA has been completed and authorised,
There are also OHS Workplace Inspection
that SPREE OHS Committee perform on a regular basis.
Risk Review
The risk in SPREE is reviewed either:
- on a 52 weeks scheduled review
- on a needs basis due to an reported/identified concerns, incident
or impromptu actions.
These review/updates will then be documented and uploaded into
SPREE OHS Central
Records FTP site.
OHS Consultation and SPREE Occupational Health and Safety
Committee
The general OHS Consultation Procedure is as follows:
- First consult your supervisor;
- If OHS concerns are unresolved, consult your OHS
representative.
In addition, there is:
- an OHS segment at the monthly SPREE Overview Meeting (usually
held at 2 pm on the fourth Wednesday of each Month except December
in Room EE 417);
- staff and students may submit agendas to the SPREE
OHS Committee Quarterly Meeting.
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