Maintain a healthy and safe working environment for waste management activities
Overview
This standard defines the competence required to comply with general health and safety in the working environment within the waste management industry. It includes identifying, responding to and reporting hazards and unsafe working practices and using safe methods of work. This standard is for anyone who works on waste
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
- use approved safe working and hygiene methods and techniques when carrying out
work activities
- check work areas are kept clean and tidy and contribute to
maintaining them in a suitable condition
- carry out all work in accordance with safe working procedures and
practices and organisational requirements
- keep to specified walkways in the work place
- give warnings to people who might be at risk from hazardous
conditions
- comply with the organisations requirements for all working situations
- select and use the designated personal protective equipment (PPE)
in accordance with operational procedures and legislation
- report on health and safety issues
- report conditions that are hazardous to people
- resolve health and safety issues within your remit and responsibility
- report problems within own area of responsibility in accordance
with operational procedures
- refer to the designated person health and safety issues including
near misses and procedures that dont work, cant be followed and fall
outside the responsibility of the job role
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
General
- the classifications and types of hazardous waste
- the potential hazards associated with different wastes and the risks
that can be found on most waste sites
- how to identify work-related hazards and risks
- details of operational procedures and documentation
- operational procedures and why it is important to comply with them
- the limits of the job responsibility when communicating with others
- how to use personal protective equipment (PPE) in line with
operational procedures
Health and safety
- the differences between a hazard and a risk
- the organisational requirements for personal hygiene
- the importance of good housekeeping
- the importance of identifying health and safety hazards and how to
minimise them
- the hierarchy of control measures
- the importance of warning others about risks and ways to do it
- the different types of plant equipment and potential risks and
controls that are in place to reduce the risk to as low as possible
- hazard warning signs and their purposes
- the legal requirements for risk assessments and health and safety
obligations and requirements in the work place
- the organisational requirements for reporting risks, hazards, near
misses and dangerous incidents