This standard is for people with responsibility for checking and co-coordinating healthy and safe work operations. This person could, for example, be a union or non-union safety representative, a supervisor, a line manager or team leader.
This standard is about making sure that statutory and workplace instructions are being carried out. It describes the competences required to make sure that:
1. healthy and safe practices are being followed within work areas
2. appropriate action is undertaken to control work hazards
Outcomes
Performance Criteria
You must be able to:
1. keep up to date with health and safety regulations and workplace instructions, making sure that information is from reliable sources
2. conduct inspections of workplaces at agreed intervals and in accordance with workplace instructions
3. confirm health and safety training needs of other people have been identified and met
4. communicate workplace instructions to other people and obtain feedback
5. respond promptly to any breaches of health and safety instructions in a way that meets workplace and legal requirements
6. maintain records relating to health and safety matters that comply with legal and workplace requirements, and are accessible to those who are authorised to use them
7. make recommendations for changes to workplace instructions to responsible people
8. consider environmental impact of your working practices
9. keep accurate and legible records of workplace risks identified or reported to you
10. report existence of risks in accordance with workplace health and safety instructions
11. review operational controls to make sure that workplace hazards are eliminated or controlled
12. confirm appropriate precautions to control these risks have been agreed with people responsible for health and safety
13. check other people are aware of risks and know actions to take to minimise them
14. report promptly and accurately any conflicts which still exist between workplace and legal requirements to people responsible for health and safety
Knowledge & Understanding
You need to know and understand:
1. employers' and employees' main legal responsibilities for health and safety at work
2. your responsibilities for health and safety as defined by any specific legislation covering your job role
3. scope of your job, your competency and capabilities
4. work areas and people for whom you have responsibility
5. difference between a hazard and a risk
6. particular health and safety risks which may be present in your own job role and the precautions to take
7. why you should remain alert to the presence of hazards in the work place
8. why you should promptly deal with or report hazards and risks at work
9. specific health and safety arrangements covering your job role
10. health and safety instructions at your workplace
11. how to keep health and safety records
12. effective communication methods
13. effective methods of inspecting other people’s activities and communicating results
14. agreed intervals for inspecting health and safety compliance
15. hazard notices and alerts relevant to your work
16. reliable sources of health and safety information
17. risks to the environment which may be present in your organisation
PROHSS3 Safely control work operations
Overview
This standard is for people with responsibility for checking and co-coordinating healthy and safe work operations. This person could, for example, be a union or non-union safety representative, a supervisor, a line manager or team leader.
This standard is about making sure that statutory and workplace instructions are being carried out. It describes the competences required to make sure that:
1. healthy and safe practices are being followed within work areas
2. appropriate action is undertaken to control work hazards
Outcomes
Performance Criteria
You must be able to:
1. keep up to date with health and safety regulations and workplace instructions, making sure that information is from reliable sources
2. conduct inspections of workplaces at agreed intervals and in accordance with workplace instructions
3. confirm health and safety training needs of other people have been identified and met
4. communicate workplace instructions to other people and obtain feedback
5. respond promptly to any breaches of health and safety instructions in a way that meets workplace and legal requirements
6. maintain records relating to health and safety matters that comply with legal and workplace requirements, and are accessible to those who are authorised to use them
7. make recommendations for changes to workplace instructions to responsible people
8. consider environmental impact of your working practices
9. keep accurate and legible records of workplace risks identified or reported to you
10. report existence of risks in accordance with workplace health and safety instructions
11. review operational controls to make sure that workplace hazards are eliminated or controlled
12. confirm appropriate precautions to control these risks have been agreed with people responsible for health and safety
13. check other people are aware of risks and know actions to take to minimise them
14. report promptly and accurately any conflicts which still exist between workplace and legal requirements to people responsible for health and safety
Knowledge & Understanding
You need to know and understand:
1. employers' and employees' main legal responsibilities for health and safety at work
2. your responsibilities for health and safety as defined by any specific legislation covering your job role
3. scope of your job, your competency and capabilities
4. work areas and people for whom you have responsibility
5. difference between a hazard and a risk
6. particular health and safety risks which may be present in your own job role and the precautions to take
7. why you should remain alert to the presence of hazards in the work place
8. why you should promptly deal with or report hazards and risks at work
9. specific health and safety arrangements covering your job role
10. health and safety instructions at your workplace
11. how to keep health and safety records
12. effective communication methods
13. effective methods of inspecting other people’s activities and communicating results
14. agreed intervals for inspecting health and safety compliance
15. hazard notices and alerts relevant to your work
16. reliable sources of health and safety information
17. risks to the environment which may be present in your organisation