Manage the safety, health and environmental culture and training
Overview
What *is* *this* *standard* *about?*
Achievement of this standard demonstrates your competence in managing safety, health, and environmental culture and training. You will be able to communicate relevant information to all stakeholders, evaluate suggestions for improvements and provide feedback. Monitoring and reviewing training plans and provision, you will also develop plans as required.
Who *is* *this* *standard* *for?*
This standard is applicable to anyone at a managerial level able to carry out this function.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
- Conduct your work in line with relevant regulation, legislation, and industry best practice
- Disseminate relevant safety, health, and environmental information to the workforce using approved channels of communication
- Provide information about activities and achievements towards improving safety, health, and environmental aspects
- Evaluate suggestions for improvements towards ensuring safety, health, and environmental aspects
- Provide feedback from your evaluation process to all stakeholders within agreed timescales
- Manage the monitoring and review process of the company's health, safety and environmental training provision
Develop SMART training plans in order to deliver and review improvements
Maintain accurate records of systems, plans, audits, inspections, and incidents
- Develop and maintain your own knowledge, skills, and practice through Continual Professional Development (CPD)
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
- Relevant regulation, legislation, company policies and procedures, and industry best practice
- The definitions of relevant terminology
- Methods of effective communication
- How to identify and consult specialists in order to learn from other sectors or implement best practices
- Methods for measuring efficiency and effectiveness of current process or procedures
- The importance of both teamwork and 'safer by competence'
- The principles of safe working practice
- The training that is both available and suitable
- How to write SMART objectives in order to deliver and review improvements
- When and why external reporting is necessary, and how it might differ from internal reporting
Scope/range
Scope Performance
Scope Knowledge
Relevant terminology, such as:
- Regulations
- Policy
- Sustainability
- Biodiversity
- Carbon-reduction
- 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)
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)