Promote and contribute to healthy, safe and secure working environments and practices
Overview
This standard is about promoting and contributing to healthy, safe and secure working environments and practices. You ensure that the physical environment and working practices in your area of responsibility comply with relevant legislation, and your organisation's requirements.
You consult with staff and other representatives on health and safety issues, ensuring that risk and benefit of any proposed activity is fully understood, and that there are assessment systems in place to identify and assess hazards and risks. You are able to manage the health and safety of your organisation on a daily basis, monitoring and recording relevant details such as conditions, venue and activity choice as appropriate for the intended outcomes of the activities. You also take action to control or reduce hazard without compromising the benefits of the working environment and practice by ensuring resources are available, safe and their use and maintenance are recorded in line with legal and manufacturers requirements.
For purposes of this standard, an 'organisation' and 'working environment' can mean a self-contained entity such as a private sector company, a charity or a local authority, a significant operating unit, with a relative degree of autonomy, within a larger organisation or as a freelance/sole trader.
This standard is recommended for managers and advanced practitioners in the active leisure sector.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand: