Manage safety and health hazards and risks, and environmental aspects and impacts
Overview
What *is* *this* *standard* *about?*
Achievement of this standard demonstrates your competence in managing safety and health hazards and risks, and environmental aspects and impacts. You will be able to identify and classify risks and environmental impacts, in addition to managing and reviewing hazard and aspect control methods.
Who *is* *this* *standard* *for?*
This standard is applicable to anyone at a supervisory or managerial level approved or authorized to carry out this function.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
- Use a range of information resources to assist you in your task
- Provide information about your task to all relevant persons within organisational timescales
Carry out assessments of hazards, risks, aspects, and impacts
Review data to classify safety and health risk, and environmental impact ratings
Manage and review hazard and aspect control methods
Establish and maintain accurate records and reports in line with regulations, legislation, company policies and procedure, and industry best practice
- Provide your results to all relevant persons within organisational timescales
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
Relevant regulation, legislation, industry best practice, and company policies and procedures
The definitions of relevant terminology
- What defines a hazard, risk, aspect, and impact in your place of work
- Where to find internal and/or external information relating to your task
- Methods for the analyse and interpretation of data
- The benefits of (and consequences of not) adequately identifying and reducing risks and impacts
- The implications of impacts and risks to different stakeholders and situations
- The responsibilities of all stakeholders, including yourself, for safety, health, and the environment
Different methodologies and techniques for risk and impact assessments including high-risk activities
Routine hazards encountered and the methodologies for controlling them
Environmental aspects and significant impacts relating to the areas of the company's operation under your control
- How to manage and review the control of safety and health hazards and risks, and environmental aspects and impacts, in order to mitigate risk
- The particular relevance of health risks
- The implementation of risk and impact control procedures
- Safe systems of work and permits to work
- The principles of, and practical solutions for emergency response
- The personnel who should see the results from your activity/task, observing necessary confidentiality
Scope/range
Scope Performance
Information resources:
Should be reliable and verifiable, and be from internal and/or external sources
Scope Knowledge
Terminology, such as:
- Regulations and policy
- Hazard and Risk
- Aspect and Impact
- QNJAC (Quarries National Joint Advisory Committee)
- PUWER (Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations)
- LOLER (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations)
- HSE (Health and Safety Executive)
- Environmental agency
- COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health)
- RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations)
- SMART objectives (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-bounded)
- CPD (Continual Professional Development)