Simulated workplaceCAQA Apex Manufacturing is a fictional business created by CAQA for training and assessment. It is not a real company and no person, client or record here is real.About this simulation
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Simulated workplace
Department

Safety, Environment and Permits

Owns the safety and environmental management systems, runs the permit to work office, coordinates incident investigation, hazard analysis, silica exposure monitoring, emergency preparedness and environmental monitoring across all three sites.

Safety and Environment Manager6 staff
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Responsibilities

What the team is accountable for

  • Manage the incident and hazard register and investigations
  • Issue and audit permits to work and confined space permits
  • Coordinate silica air monitoring and health surveillance
  • Run emergency drills and maintain emergency plans
  • Report environmental monitoring results to the regulator
Performance measures

How we know it is working

88 percent
Hazards closed within 14 days
12
Permits audited per month
4.6
Recordable injury frequency rate
People

Who works here

RF

Rowan Fitzgerald

Safety and Environment Manager

Rowan owns the safety and environmental systems and the permit office, and has been at Apex for three years after a career in quarrying.

Systems

Where the work is recorded

Incident and Hazard Register

Logs every injury, near miss, hazard, property damage and environmental event with severity, actions and closure.

Permit to Work Register

Tracks every permit to work, confined space permit and isolation from issue to close-out.

Scenarios

Assessment tasks in this department

Intermediate

Investigate the forklift and pedestrian near miss in bay 3

You are the safety coordinator in Safety, Environment and Permits.

Documents

Documents the scenarios use