This standard covers the skills and knowledge required to control health and safety risks.
It covers
1. managing control of health and safety risks effectively, co-ordinating outcomes, prioritising risks and reviewing effectiveness;
2. making sure that significant hazards have been identified and risks have been assessed; and
3. making sure that appropriate risk control measures meet health and safety statutory requirements and industry best practice and have been implemented effectively
Outcomes
Performance Criteria
You must be able to:
1. prioritise areas in the workplace where hazards with a potential for serious harm to health and safety are most likely to occur
2. identify hazards in those areas following industry best practice
3. select and use suitable techniques to analyse risks to health and safety following industry best practice
4. decide tolerability and/or acceptability of risks using appropriate instruments and survey techniques to determine potential exposure of employees and other people who may be affected
5. produce and maintain appropriate records of risks following industry best practice
6. identify and evaluate risk control measures and current systems of work in your organisation
7. evaluate risk assessments, co-ordinate outcomes and prioritise implementation following industry best practice
8. recognise your own limits and where necessary bring in specialist or other assistance following industry best practice
9. identify and recommend implementation of risk control measures required by health and safety local and national standards and guidelines relevant to your organisation and industry best practice
10. ensure appropriate stakeholders are involved in consultations and informed of the significant results
11. identify resources required and cost-effectiveness, of risk control measures needed
12. assist in implementation of risk control measures where appropriate
13. ensure processes for proactively monitoring risk control measures are in place following industry best practice
14. keep appropriate records of risk control measures and inform stakeholders of significant findings
15. give recommendation for periods for review of risk control measures
16. review effectiveness of measures following industry best practice
Knowledge & Understanding
You need to know and understand:
1. health and safety hazards
2. risk assessment techniques
3. instruments and survey techniques used to determine exposure of people who may be affected
4. analysis techniques suitable for determining risks
5. methods for reviewing effectiveness
6. health and safety statutory requirements
7. tolerability/acceptability of risk
8. quality management requirements for documentation
9. risk control measures, including safe systems of work
10. external factors influencing health and safety risk control methods
11. risk control hierarchies
12. risk control measures required by relevant health and safety legislation and industry best practice
PROHSP6 Control health and safety risks
Overview
This standard covers the skills and knowledge required to control health and safety risks.
It covers
1. managing control of health and safety risks effectively, co-ordinating outcomes, prioritising risks and reviewing effectiveness;
2. making sure that significant hazards have been identified and risks have been assessed; and
3. making sure that appropriate risk control measures meet health and safety statutory requirements and industry best practice and have been implemented effectively
Outcomes
Performance Criteria
You must be able to:
1. prioritise areas in the workplace where hazards with a potential for serious harm to health and safety are most likely to occur
2. identify hazards in those areas following industry best practice
3. select and use suitable techniques to analyse risks to health and safety following industry best practice
4. decide tolerability and/or acceptability of risks using appropriate instruments and survey techniques to determine potential exposure of employees and other people who may be affected
5. produce and maintain appropriate records of risks following industry best practice
6. identify and evaluate risk control measures and current systems of work in your organisation
7. evaluate risk assessments, co-ordinate outcomes and prioritise implementation following industry best practice
8. recognise your own limits and where necessary bring in specialist or other assistance following industry best practice
9. identify and recommend implementation of risk control measures required by health and safety local and national standards and guidelines relevant to your organisation and industry best practice
10. ensure appropriate stakeholders are involved in consultations and informed of the significant results
11. identify resources required and cost-effectiveness, of risk control measures needed
12. assist in implementation of risk control measures where appropriate
13. ensure processes for proactively monitoring risk control measures are in place following industry best practice
14. keep appropriate records of risk control measures and inform stakeholders of significant findings
15. give recommendation for periods for review of risk control measures
16. review effectiveness of measures following industry best practice
Knowledge & Understanding
You need to know and understand:
1. health and safety hazards
2. risk assessment techniques
3. instruments and survey techniques used to determine exposure of people who may be affected
4. analysis techniques suitable for determining risks
5. methods for reviewing effectiveness
6. health and safety statutory requirements
7. tolerability/acceptability of risk
8. quality management requirements for documentation
9. risk control measures, including safe systems of work
10. external factors influencing health and safety risk control methods
11. risk control hierarchies
12. risk control measures required by relevant health and safety legislation and industry best practice