BSBCMM501 Develop and Nurture Relationships Questions Assignment Help

Answer 1:

Work Health and Safety (WHS) which was previously known as Occupational Health & Safety (OH&S) till the year 2012 changed due to the need of a consistent law which is similar across the country to facilitate the basic balance of health and safety of workers and workplaces which meets the obligations of WHS (Comcare.gov.au, 2019). Business owners are legally obliged to implement a healthy and safe working environment for its employees, contractors, supplier, volunteers, visitors, customers or any stakeholder which is directly or indirectly involved with the business practices. The process of WHS involves identification of risk, evaluation, treating the risk and then reviewing it to protect the health, safety, and welfare of everyone involved in the business to eliminate the risk and if the elimination of risk is not practicable then minimization of the risk which can arise from any work activity or workplace becomes the primary objective (Business.gov.au, 2019a). The business owner is obligated to ensure that the workplace and his workers are in compliance with WHS Laws however workers have obligations to comply with the instructions, using personal safety equipment, not place themselves or others at risk willfully and not to create a situation where they will injure themselves (Legislation.act.gov.au, 2019). 

Answer 2:

Privacy act is a law which regulates the handling (how information will be used or disclosed, quality of information, security, the access rights of the individual) of the personal information which can be true or false, verbal, written, photographic, recorded or unrecorded and may include name, address, and contact details, date of birth, gender, sexuality and race. Privacy act also covers sensitive information which includes racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, and associations, religious and philosophical beliefs, any membership with trade union or associations, biometric, sexual preferences and criminal record. Privacy act covers health information such as physical and mental health, disability, health preferences, use of health services, blood or organ donations, genetics. Privacy act also covers other classes of information which includes spent convictions, tax file numbers, electoral roll information, surveillance information, and credit history. This law applies to everyone the only exception being the deceased person (Hall & Wilcox, 2019). 

Answer 3:

Discrimination has played a vital role since the human existence until today, it is an action or a practice which differentiates individuals on the basis of some recognized or observed trait. It is caused by stereotypic and prejudice. Anti-Discrimination is a framework which promotes equality and makes it unlawful to discriminate an individual on the basis of their age, disability, race, intersex status, gender identity, education, employment, and sexual orientation (Ag.gov.au, 2019).

Answer 4:

The Fair work Act 2009 is the legislation of the workplace in Australia it is the foundation of all the standards and regulation for employees in all sizes of the business within all industries. Employees and Employers are both obligated towards the national workplace relations system which provides a platform for enhances the national economic prosperity and social inclusion. It specifically focuses on the terms and conditions of employment, rights, and responsibilities of employees and employers towards those employment, compliance, and enforcement of the act and administrating on the act through Fair Work Commission and Fair Work Ombudsman. The terms and conditions are set through the National Employment Standards(NES) which has 10 entitlements of maximum weekly hours, flexible working arrangements, parental leave and related entitlements, annual leave, personal leave, compassionate leave, and unpaid family and domestic violence leave, community service leave, long service leave, public holidays, notice of termination and redundancy pay, fair work information system. After the baseline provisions, Modern Awards provide additional entitlements to an employee. Minimum wage is also an essential part of the fair work act which protects worker across the board to be entitled towards a minimum wage (Employsure, 2019).