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Health and Safety Management
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Health and Safety Management
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- Added a high-level policy statement that relates to the Health and Safety at Work Act. This is all new content.
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Safety Management System
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- Strengthened the wording about Allocating resources.
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The Health and Safety at Work Act
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- Removed this topic and moving the definitions to other topics as appropriate.
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Primary Duty of Care
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- Made formatting and grammar changes to help with readability.
- Added a definition of "reasonably practicable" from the Health and Safety at Work Act.
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Due Diligence
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- Made changes to improve readability.
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Risk Management
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- Added examples of hazards.
- Added the option for school's to specify how they record hazards.
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Hazard Register and Audit
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- Added the option for school's to specify how psychosocial hazards should be reported.
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Chain of Custody
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- Added wording about privacy and cultural considerations.
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Health and Safety Induction
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- Added a definition of "workers".
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Visitors
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- Made small changes to improve clarity.
- Strengthened the wording about court orders and parents contact rights.
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Worker Engagement, Participation, and Representation
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- Moved some wording here from Elected Health and Safety Representative.
- Provided flexibility for schools to state who their delegated person is OR who is on their health and safety committee.
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Elected Health and Safety Representative (optional topic)
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- Moved some wording to Worker Engagement, Participation, and Representation.
- Added detail to explain the role of the elected representative.
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Reporting and Recording Accidents and Incidents
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- Changed wording about hazard register forms to mention the whole risk management process.
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