Implement, monitor and maintain health and safety working practices in an airport/airfield environment
URN: PPLAOG05
Business Sectors (Suites): Aviation Operations on the Ground
Developed by: People 1st
Approved on:
2021
Overview
This standard is about implementing and monitoring health and safety working practices and maintaining a healthy and safe working environment in an airport/airfield. This involves implementing systems, procedures and practices to monitor and maintain health and safety within your area of responsibility. This also involves providing health and safety information to team members and managing their adherence to health and safety procedures and compliance with the relevant health and safety legislation. You must also be able to conduct health and safety checks and inspections of workplace areas and equipment, as well as identifying and responding to actual and potential workplace hazards, and completing the required health and safety documentation in line with organisational and airport/airfield procedures and relevant legal requirements.
This standard is for those responsible for supervising or managing others and/or co-ordinating work areas in an airport/airfield.
When you have completed this standard, you will be able to demonstrate your knowledge of and ability to:
• Implement, monitor and maintain health and safety working practices in airport/airfield environment
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
1. Implement systems, procedures and practices to monitor and maintain health and safety within your area of responsibility
2. Monitor and maintain health and safety working practices in your area of responsibility
3. Take the required action when systems, procedures and practices for maintaining health and safety are not being complied with
4. Provide team members with the information relating to systems, procedures and practices for the maintaining of health and safety
5. Maintain a healthy and safe working environment in line with organisational and airport/airfield policies and procedures and relevant legal requirements
6. Manage team members not following health and safety procedures in line with organisational and airport/airfield policies and procedures
7. Confirm that team members’ working conditions meet current health and safety legislation and organisational and airport/airfield requirements
8. Identify hazards or potential hazards in the workplace in line with organisational and airport/airfield procedures and relevant legal requirements
9. Take the required action to respond to hazards or potential hazards in the workplace in accordance with organisational and airport/airfield procedures and relevant legal requirements
10. Conduct health and safety checks and inspections in line with organisational and airport/airfield procedures and relevant legal requirements
11. Confirm that equipment is maintained and is in a safe working order according to the manufacturer's, organisational, airport/airfield instructions and relevant legal requirements
12. Complete and process the required health and safety documentation in line with your organisation's and the airport/airline’s procedures and relevant legal requirements
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
1. Your organisation's and the airport/airfield’s health and safety procedures, including emergency procedures
2. Your organisation's and the airport/airfield’s systems, procedures and practices designed to maintain health and safety including those relating to work patterns, work methods and housekeeping
3. The relevant legal requirements relating to health and safety in an airport/airfield working environment
4. How to implement systems, procedures and practices to monitor health and safety within your area of responsibility
5. How to monitor and maintain health and safety working practices in your area of responsibility
6. Your organisation’s and the airport/airfield’s procedures for maintaining health and safety procedures
7. The actions to take when systems, procedures and practices for maintaining health and safety are not being complied with
8. The importance of and methods for providing team members with information relating to systems, procedures and practices for the maintaining of health and safety
9. How to maintain a healthy and safe working environment in an airport/airfield
10. How to manage team members not following health and safety procedures and the importance of doing so
11. How to confirm team members’ working conditions meet current health and safety legislation and organisational and airport/airfield requirements
12. How to identify and respond to hazards or potential hazards in an airport/airfield workplace
13. When and how to conduct health and safety checks and inspections
14. How to confirm that equipment is maintained in a safe working order according to the manufacturer's, organisational, airport/airfield instructions and relevant legal requirements
15. Your organisation's and the airport/airfield’s procedures and relevant legal requirements for completing and processing the required health and safety documentation
Scope/range
Health and safety documentation includes:
a) The accident book
b) Maintenance records
Scope Performance
Scope Knowledge
Values
Behaviours
Skills
Glossary
Links To Other NOS
External Links
Version Number
2
Indicative Review Date
2026
Validity
Current
Status
Original
Originating Organisation
GoSkills
Original URN
GSKAOG05
Relevant Occupations
Transport Drivers and Operatives, Transport Operations and Maintenance
SOC Code
8233
Keywords
health and safety, working practices, hazards