Monitor health, safety and environmental management systems in food and drink operations
Overview
This standard covers the skills and knowledge needed to monitor health, safety or environmental systems within an organisation. You will need to implement systems for monitoring and maintaining health, safety and hygiene, staff working conditions and facilities within your area of responsibility, communicate relevant information to colleagues, contribute to the auditing of safety and environmental procedures. You will also need to ensure timely corrective action where necessary and ensure that illness; incidents and accidents/near misses are promptly reported and recorded.
This standard is recommended for you if you are a manager, technologist or consultant who has responsibility for the development of food and drink operations related health, safety and environmental systems. It is expected that you will work as part of a team to develop, implement and monitor the systems.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
- implement health, safety and environmental monitoring systems fully for all operations within your area of responsibility in accordance with organisational requirements
- monitor conditions to ensure health, safety and environmental system requirements are met
- audit health, safety and environmental management operations and take action when required in accordance with organisational requirements
- report and record outcomes of monitoring in accordance with organisational and statutory requirements to improve systems
- make recommendations for improving health, safety and environmental management systems
- disseminate agreed improvements to relevant people with information to ensure the improvements can be implemented in accordance with organisational requirements
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
- principles of current legislation for health, safety and environmental management
- relevant statutory body requirements
- the enforcement structure of regulatory bodies
- how to communicate with relevant people
- how to give due recognition to ideas and views
- how to make presentations
- how to develop and maintain procedures
- how to analyse, review and validate internal and external information
- the importance of compliance with systems and legislation and the possible consequences of non-compliance
- system requirements to monitor and maintain a healthy and safe environment
- tangible and intangible benefits of healthy and safe working arrangements to the organisation and its external environment
- methods of risk assessments
- procedures for investigating and reporting
- principles of organisational policies and systems
- organisational procedures for health, safety and environmental systems, emergencies, environmental issues and health screening
- organisational procedures for the prevention, investigation and reporting of incidents and accidents
- how to report and record to best effect
- the importance of compliance with systems and legislation and possible consequences of non-compliance
- system requirements to monitor and maintain a healthy and safe environment
- implications of current health, safety and environmental legislation on the business and work undertaken by individuals
- how to ensure compliance with current statutory requirements
- how to carry out risk assessments
- risks and hazards specific to your own area of responsibility/control
- the need for involvement of health, safety and environmental specialists