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1-Provide an overview of the activities carried out by your organisation. Include a statement

for the structure, characteristics and needs of the organisation.

Note: The name of the organisation here is not real, but the information given here resembles

a real organisation with its current workplace procedures and processes.

Overview

Legitima is a creative agency based in Sydney that handled various marketing services for its

clients. The agency uses a combination of functional structure and project-based structure.

The purpose of the combined structure is to ensure that the agency is heading in the right

direction through tight planning, controlling, organizing, and monitoring, and at the same

time ensure the projects run successfully.

Organisation Structure at Legitima:

At Legitima, the projects are carried out by the assigned project team consist of the project

lead and its members. Due to the variety of the projects, the team may require different roles

such as strategist, graphic designer, video editor, or content writers depending on the

project’s necessity. It is very likely for these team members to have multiple ongoing projects

at the same time and reports to possibly different project lead.

The project leads themselves are assigned by the Head of Business Operations with the

approval of the Head of Finance. Typically, a project lead only handled not more than 3

projects at the same time.

The most important needs of the organisation are ensuring the projects able to carry out

clients’ expectation and resulting in great deliverables to be the foundation for future projects

and ensuring the efficiency of the used resources of the agency (time, costs of project, work

hours).

2-Access the state legislation relevant to your state of training and the Safe work website

and identify the legislation that applies to the organisation.

As the organisation is based in Sydney. The relevant legislation to the organization’s business

activities are:

• NSW Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (WHS Act).

• NSW Health and Safety Regulation 2017 (WHS Regulation).

3-Identify the relevant model Codes of Practice that apply to the organisation, for example

Manual Handling; Managing the Work Environment and Facilities; Consultation etc.

• Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work.

Not only physical health that needs to take attention to but also the psychosocial side of

the people at the workplace. The appropriate control will be vary depending on the

circling circumstance within the workplace itself. In a project-based agency, there will be

times that long working hours and intensive level works are needed to deliver the

projects.

• Managing the Work Environment and Facilities.

This code outlines the process to manage risks that come within the workplace,

particularly it's working environment and facilities. A systematic process needs to be

carried out to result in effecting risk managing and minimize the downside of the risks

within the circumstances of the working environment and the use of its facilities.

• Work Health and Safety Consultation, Cooperation, and Coordination.

It is a legal requirement to provide consultation to the employees about the importance

of managing health and safety risks. A well-executed health and safety consultation may

give these benefits for the organisation:

- Greater awareness and commitment; and

- Positive working relationship.

These are results of a safe workplace from the cooperation between the duty holders, the

people who manage the works, and the people who carry out the works.

• First Aid in the Workplace.

The requirements are depending on the situation regarding the workplace itself. Several

factors to be considered are the nature of the work, the types of hazards, and the number

of people. This particular code of practices will outline the approaches available to use to

provide first aid assistance based on the workplace situation including the detailed

information to conduct the appropriate procedures.

• How to Manage Work Health and Safety Risks.

This code of practice outlines the risk management approach that needs to be taken if

there is an ongoing process over the time that occurs any effect to the usual work

activities. This particular code of practice has high relevance towards the service-based

business model due to the nature of the works carried out.

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1-Provide an overview of the activities carried out by your organisation. Include a statement for the structure, characteristics and needs of the organisation. Note: The name of the organisation here is not real, but the information given here resembles a real organisation with its current workplace procedures and processes. Overview Legitima is a creative agency based in Sydney that handled various marketing services for its clients. The agency uses a combination of functional structure and project-based structure. The purpose of the combined structure is to ensure that the agency is heading in the right direction through tight planning, controlling, organizing, and monitoring, and at the same time ensure the projects run successfully. Organisation Structure at Legitima: At Legitima, the projects are carried out by the assigned project team consist of the project lead and its members. Due to the variety of the projects, the team may require different roles such as strategist, graphic designer, video editor, or content writers depending on the project’s necessity. It is very likely for these team members to have multiple ongoing projects at the same time and reports to possibly different project lead. The project leads themselves are assigned by the Head of Business Operations with the approval of the Head of Finance. Typically, a project lead only handled not more than 3 projects at the same time. The most important needs of the organisation are ensuring the projects able ...
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