Make sure your own actions reduce risks to health and safety
Overview
This Standard is for everyone at work. It is about having an appreciation of significant risks at work, knowing how to identify and deal with them. This Standard is about the health and safety responsibilities for everyone at work. It describes the competences required to make sure that: 1 your own actions do not create any health and safety hazards 2 you do not ignore significant risks at work, and 3 you take sensible action to put things right, including: reporting situations which pose a danger to people at work and seeking advice Fundamental to this unit is an understanding of the terms "hazard", "risk" and “control”.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
Identify the hazards and evaluate the risks at work:
identify which workplace instructions are relevant to your job
identify those hazards in your job which may harm you or others
identify those aspect of your workplace which could harm you or
others
identify and respond to hazards in accordance with workplace
instructions and legal requirements
report all matters relating to health and safety to the responsible
person
Reduce the risks to health and safety at work:
carry out your work in accordance with your level of responsibility
control health and safety risks within your job responsibilities
communicate suggestions for reducing risks to health and safety
to the responsible people
make sure your work practice does not endanger the health and
safety of you or others at work
follow the workplace instructions and suppliers' or manufacturers'
instructions for the safe use of equipment, materials and products
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
what “hazards” and “risks” are
- your responsibilities for health and safety as required by the law
covering your job role
- the hazards which exist at work and the safe working practices
which you must follow
- the particular health and safety hazards which may be present in
your own job and the precautions you must take
- the importance of remaining alert to the presence of hazards in
the whole workplace
the importance of controlling, or promptly reporting, risks
the safe working practices for your own job
the responsible people you should report health and safety
matters to
where and when to get additional health and safety assistance
workplace instructions for managing risks which you are unable to
control
- suppliers and manufacturers instructions for the safe use of
equipment,
materials and products which you must follow
the importance of personal behaviour in maintaining the health
and safety of you and others