Crowd Control At Venues And Events (PDF ... - WorkSafe Victoria

More documents

Recommendations

Info

SAFETY ASSESSMENT AND CONSULTATIONWorkplace inductionIt’s the responsibility of both the agency and host employer to ensure inductionis provided for the workplaces that they have control over.Inducting a new employee into the workplace is the first crucial step in ensuringtheir health, safety and welfare. Induction should be designed to provide the newemployee with the key information about safety at work, including:• a comprehensive understanding of hazards and risks associated with the work,including the risk of potentially violent encounters, manual handling injuries andeffects of fatigue;• the things in place to control risk at work, including the specific risk controlsolutions used and the overall system to manage safety at work;• knowledge of the hazard reporting and other reporting systems used for theworkplace; and• who is in control, roles and responsibilities.Appendix 2 contains an example induction checklist (Crowd Control (Agency)Placement Induction Checklist) for the agency. This checklist or similar should becompleted when the agency places an employee into a new workplace.Appendix 3 contains an example induction checklist (Host Crowd ControlPlacement Induction Checklist) for host employers. This induction checklist orsimilar should be completed by the host employer for each new crowd controllerused at the venue or event.Where a crowd controller is employed directly by the host employer, the hostemployer should ensure induction covers both induction checklists or similar.10 WORKSAFE VICTORIA / CROWD CONTROL AT VENUES AND EVENTS
3CROWD CONTROLRISK SOLUTIONS3This part of the Guide conveys the importance of dealing with obvious serioussafety risks first and quickly. Once the obvious risks have been dealt with, theperson in control can move on to more complex safety problems that require moredetailed risk assessments. All these assessments should be done in consultationwith employees and/or their elected representatives.It’s recommended that the tables on the following pages of this publication areused to ‘fast-track’ the risk assessment process. That is, if the solutions to rectifyunacceptable work practices at your workplace are obvious and straightforward toimplement, it should be done as soon as possible. Don’t delay putting in placegood OHS practices. A detailed risk assessment should follow. You might chooseto refine the solutions after the assessment, but it’s far more important to act onobvious risks quickly.Work practices described in the red tables are likely to be in breach of OHS lawsand almost invariably will be placing the health, safety and welfare of crowdcontrollers at risk. In some circumstances, the unacceptable work practices willalso be jeopardising the safety of the host employer’s employees and that ofpatrons. For example, unacceptable work practices dealing with emergencyprocedures. If you are using the work practices described in the red tables, youneed to determine ways to quickly stop doing those things and put in placeappropriate controls.The green tables list risk control solutions you should be using in your workplace,as long as they are reasonably practicable. You may not be able to implement therisk control solutions exactly as they are described in the green tables. If this is thecase, you should treat the suggested risk control solutions as benchmarks orindications of the type of solutions you are able to implement. It’s important tounderstand that these risk control solutions, although possibly not an ideal ‘fit’ foryour own workplace situation, are solutions generally regarded as quite practicablefor many workplaces in the crowd control sector.The tables include an indicative allocation of responsibility for rectifyingunacceptable work practices and putting into effect risk control solutions.UNACCEPTABLEWORK PRACTICESThe practices in the red column should notbe used at a venue or event. An agency orhost employer who allows these practicesto be used is likely to be in breach ofOHS legislation.RISK CONTROL SOLUTIONSThe solutions in the green columns areregarded as good industry practice andshould be implemented by an agency orhost employer where ‘reasonably practicable’(or as prescribed under other legislation).It is important to note that the way this responsibility has been set out inthe tables is based on what is regarded as common industry practice.The described allocation of responsibility shouldn’t be seen as iron-tight forall situations. The tables indicate the person most likely to have the mostcontrol or capacity to eliminate or control the risk. The overriding principlehere is that if a person has any actual control over how to fix a safetyproblem they must exercise that control.WORKSAFE VICTORIA / CROWD CONTROL AT VENUES AND EVENTS 11
Page 1 and 2: CROWD CONTROLAT VENUES AND EVENTSA
Page 3: 1INTRODUCTION11.1 WHAT DOES THIS GU
Page 8 and 9: SAFETY ASSESSMENT AND CONSULTATION
Page 10 and 11: SAFETY ASSESSMENT AND CONSULTATIONC
Page 14 and 15: CROWD CONTROL RISK SOLUTIONS3.1 CON
Page 16 and 17: CROWD CONTROL RISK SOLUTIONSRISK CO
Page 18 and 19: CROWD CONTROL RISK SOLUTIONSUNACCEP
Page 20 and 21: CROWD CONTROL RISK SOLUTIONS3.3 DEA
Page 22 and 23: CROWD CONTROL RISK SOLUTIONS3.4 PHY
Page 24 and 25: CROWD CONTROL RISK SOLUTIONS3.5 ADM
Page 26: CROWD CONTROL RISK SOLUTIONSRISK CO
Page 30 and 31: FURTHER INFORMATIONEMERGENCY MANAGE
Page 32 and 33: APPENDIX 1CROWD CONTROL SAFETY AND
Page 34 and 35: APPENDIX 12. MONITORING AND COMMUNI
Page 36 and 37: APPENDIX 14. PHYSICALLY MANAGING AG
Page 38 and 39: APPENDIX 16. COORDINATING EMERGENCY
Page 40 and 41: APPENDIX 3Host employer placement i
Page 42: APPENDIX 4Collection of Personal an

Crowd Control At Venues And Events (PDF ... - WorkSafe Victoria

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?