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require a PCBU to manage risks associated with specific hazards including noise, hazardous manual tasks, falls, confined spaces, plant and electricity.
Section 2 provides guidance on how to manage the risks associated with stevedoring operations by following a systematic process involving:
       identifying hazards
       if necessary, assessing the risks associated with these hazards
       implementing and maintaining risk control measures, and
       reviewing risk control measures.
Further guidance on the general risk management process is in the Code of Practice: How to manage work health and safety risks.

Consulting workers
WHS Act
Section 47: A PCBU must consult, so far as is reasonably practicable, with workers who carry out work for them who are (or are likely to be) directly affected by a work health and safety matter.
Section 48: If workers are represented by a health and safety representative, the consultation must involve that representative.
Section 49: Consultation is required in relation to the following health and safety matters:
       when identifying hazards and assessing risks to health and safety arising from the work carried out or to be carried out by the business or undertaking;
       when making decisions about ways to eliminate or minimise those risks;
       when making decisions about the adequacy of facilities for the welfare of workers;
       when proposing changes that may affect the health or safety of workers;
       when making decisions about the procedures for:
        consulting with workers
        resolving work health or safety issues at the workplace
        monitoring the health of workers
        monitoring the conditions at any workplace under the management or control of the person conducting the business or undertaking, or
        providing information and training for workers
       when carrying out any other activity prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this section.

Consultation involves sharing of information, giving workers a reasonable opportunity to express views and taking those views into account before making decisions on health and safety matters.
Workers are entitled to take part in consultation arrangements and to be represented on work health and safety matters by a health and safety representative who has been elected to represent their work group.
In deciding how to control risks, you must consult with workers who will be affected by this decision, either directly or through their health and safety representative. Their experience may help you identify hazards and choose practical and effective control measures.
Consultation may occur through:
       general or workplace induction processes
       toolbox talks
       WHS committee meetings
       participative risk assessment processes
       phone, email or fax, and
       sessions or events called for a specific purpose.
Toolbox talks can be used to provide information to and receive