Promote safety, health and environmental performance in the workplace
Overview
What is this standard about?
Achievement of this standard demonstrates your competence in promoting safety, health, and environmental performance in the workplace. You will be able to promote and encourage others to take an active role in safety, health and environmental performance, maintaining your own levels of continuous personal and professional development (CPD).
Who is this standard for?
This standard is applicable to anyone at a managerial, supervisory or operational level able to carry out this function.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
Engage staff, by implementing company procedures, to take an active role in improvements to safety, health, and environmental performance
Promote safety, health, and environmental awareness through written materials and 'toolbox talks'
Record health, safety, and environmental data accurately and maintain these records
Keep up to date with the common work-related accidents, near misses, causes of ill-health and incidents
- Maintain continuous personal and professional development (CPD)
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
- The relevant legislation, best practices and planning rules that may affect your performance
- Where to find relevant information and resources including the current company policies and procedures that apply to your role
- How to analyse and interpret safety, health, and environmental data
- The potential causes of work related ill-health and incidents
- The common contributors to environmental incidents
- Why improving safety, health, and the environment is important to both your business and the wider community
- The potential impacts of change on safety, health and environmental performance
- The potential impacts on the business of poor safety, health, and environmental performance
- The benefits of using a range of communication methods and/or channels
- The benefits to both your business and team of building rapport and good working relationships
- How individual behaviours could affect safety, health, and environmental performance
- The role, responsibilities, and limits of authority of everyone in the workplace, at all levels
- The importance of a positive mindset in order to implement improvements to performance
- The importance of maintaining accurate information and records
Scope/range
Scope Performance
Company procedures such as:
- Toolbox Talks
- Safety Committee Meetings
- Email Communication
- Training