Section 1 - Outcome 1 - 0-3pts
Safety responsibilities in your business have not been made clear and safety may not be seen as a priority.
Your responses indicate that you should take immediate action to develop a safety culture by defining your role (the employer) and the roles of other managers and workers within the business. You will also need to allocate resources to meet your safety responsibilities and demonstrate your commitment to a safe workplace.
What you can do to improve:
Determine safety accountabilities and responsibilities
Speak with your workers about what is expected of them regarding safety in the workplace and about what you as the employer need to do to help them achieve your expectations.
Define everyone’s role in in safety and develop responsibilities and accountabilities for everyone, making sure you start at the top. Demonstrate your commitment by acting on your responsibilities and acknowledging when others act on theirs.
Commit resources (time and money)
Once responsibilities and accountabilities have been defined, commit adequate resources to enable these responsibilities to be met.
Spend time to:
- develop safe work procedures
- supervise and train your workers and managers
- act on safety reports and issues.
Spend money to:
- maintain and repair equipment
- provide personal protection equipment
- fix any safety issues.
Make safety a priority
Once responsibilities are defined and resources allocated, take the initiative to make safety a top priority.
Your safety management approach should include:
- developing and implementing safe work procedures for all tasks that expose your workers to risk
- ensuring that safe work procedures are followed at all times
- involving workers in decisions about their health and safety
- training your workers
- ensuring that safety issues or problems are reported quickly and acted upon promptly
- providing resources to address safety responsibilities.
Date printed: 16 Dec 2025
