Maintain health and safety in the waste and resource management industry

Overview

This standard is about maintaining health and safety in the waste and resource management industry. This could apply to any type of waste management facility.
This includes making sure that hazards and risks are controlled safely and effectively, implementing organisational health and safety procedures and monitoring and reviewing safety on site.
This is for managers of any type of waste management site.

Performance criteria

You must be able to:

  1. conduct risk assessments and implement control measures at appropriate times
  2. maintain accurate records of workplace irregularities in approved organisational systems
  3. check other people are aware of hazards, risks and required actions to minimise them
  4. report hazards to appropriate people
  5. confirm that precautions to control risks have been agreed with people responsible for health and safety on site
  6. check at appropriate times that recommended actions have been carried out 
  7. implement workplace health and safety procedures in relation to all identified hazards 
  8. ensure procedures are in place to check the health and safety competence of employees
  9. conduct workplace monitoring at agreed intervals and in accordance with workplace instructions
  10. respond to any breaches of health and safety in line with organisational and regulatory requirements
  11. plan training to address identified health and safety related training needs 
  12. review performance of health and safety on site at appropriate intervals
  13. request feedback on health and safety performance from relevant people
  14. recommend changes to organisational health and safety procedures to appropriate people

Knowledge and understanding

You need to know and understand:

  1. the main legal requirements of health and safety legislation on waste and resource management facilities, in relation to employers, employees and other people
  2. workplace health and safety procedures in relation to plant, machinery, equipment, chemicals, fire, first aid, supervision of visitors and contractors, vehicle movements and any other site specific hazardsthe different sources of reliable health and safety information
  3. how to locate current health and safety information
  4. the main features and legal requirements for fire risk assessment, accident management plans, control of hazardous substances, provision and use of work equipment and use of lifting equipment
  5. the difference between a hazard and a risk
  6. how to complete a risk assessment
  7. the difference between a formal and dynamic risk assessment
  8. the hierarchy of ‘control measures’
  9. the characteristics of hazardous substances and their warning labels 
  10. the types of personal protective equipment (PPE) required and how they must be used, maintained and stored
  11. the main causes of accidents and incidents on site
  12. current regulator guidance on how to investigate accidents and incidents