Mintrac WHS
Workplace Health and Safety for meat Industry Supervisors
Welcome to MINTRA WHS – Promoting Workplace Health and Safety for Meat Industry Supervisors
Our Concerns
The scope of our concerns includes:
Regulatory
Government or other authorities make rules to control or put something or someone in check. Therefore, every organisation, firm, industry, or institute has regulations guiding them. The meat industry is not excluded more so as it has to do with humans’ health and safety, which is of utmost importance.
WHS Supervisor
WHS is administered through providing specialised assistance in health and safety issues where necessary; maintaining and administering appropriate information and reporting and creating and implementing various techniques, including workplace assessment, hazard identification and relevant remedial activities to remove or control hazards. In all of these, offices and positions are created, and one of which is the supervisor.
WHS Management
Coming down to the 21st century where modernisation and civilisation have resulted in many changes, workers now have more privileges that give them job security and safety, one of them being work safety and health (WHS). In turn, WHS management involves hazard management, injury management and incident management. It also consists of emergency procedures and how to manage work health and safety generally.
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Fact Sheet
Risk is the possibility that something might go wrong when involved in something. It involves the uncertainty on the implication of action concerning something of human value (including health, properties). Risk is often characterised by reference to potential events and consequences or a combination of both. The major areas of critical risk as examined by National Meat Industry Training Advisory Council Limited (MINTRAC) and is known as risk fact sheets.
Other Risks
Apart from critical risk fact sheets, there are other risks, although peculiar to the meat industry. They affect the physical environment where people work. They also extend to issues such as zoonotic diseases, sickness spread, repetitive motions, and psychological hazards.
PPE
Every workplace is usually filled with risks and hazardous situations, and typically, the employer is responsible for any injury sustained in the course of discharging one’s duties diligently. In controlling workplace hazards, two major forms have been classified as the most effective and the least effective. The former includes the elimination method, substitution, and isolation, while the latter refers to personal protective equipment.
Industry Research
We cannot rule out the importance of research. Research improves our knowledge and helps us gain exposure. This section provides information as regards meat and livestock production in Australia. Areas that directly affect WHS and ongoing research are sharpening of knives, controlling noises, Q fever, and many more. Under research and development, several innovation insights have been created.
Training Options
This is very important in guarding against hazards. Training is an integral part of controlling hazards as a workplace and is even recognised as a supervisor’s key role. Training is organised for various purposes, and the most important is to enlighten the workers on how to use tools and equipment. There are recruits from time to time, and they need to be inducted. The training program, therefore, takes place during the induction to carry them along.