IMPHS307 – Monitor health, safety and environmental management systems in food and drink operations

Overview 

This standard covers the skills and knowledge needed to monitor health, safety or environmental systems within an organisation. You will need to implement systems for monitoring and maintaining health, safety and hygiene, staff working conditions and facilities within your area of responsibility, communicate relevant information to colleagues, contribute to the auditing of safety and environmental procedures. You will also need to ensure timely corrective action where necessary and ensure that illness; incidents and accidents/near misses are promptly reported and recorded.

This standard is recommended for you if you are a manager, technologist or consultant who has responsibility for the development of food and drink operations related health, safety and environmental systems. It is expected that you will work as part of a team to develop, implement and monitor the systems.

Performance criteria

You must be able to:

1. implement health, safety and environmental monitoring systems fully for all operations within your area of responsibility
2. monitor conditions to ensure health, safety and environmental system requirements are met
3. audit health, safety and environmental management operations and take prompt corrective action when required
4. report and record outcomes of monitoring in accordance with organisational and statutory requirements to improve systems
5. make recommendations for improving health, safety and environmental management systems
6. disseminate agreed improvements to relevant people with information to ensure the improvements can be implemented

Knowledge and understanding

You need to know and understand

1. principles of current legislation for health, safety and environmental management
2. relevant statutory body requirements
3. the enforcement structure of regulatory bodies
4. how to communicate with relevant people
5. how to give due recognition to ideas and views
6. how to make presentations
7. how to develop and maintain procedures
8. how to analyse, review and validate internal and external information
9. the importance of compliance with systems and legislation and the possible consequences of non-compliance
10. system requirements to monitor and maintain a healthy and safe environment
11. tangible and intangible benefits of healthy and safe working arrangements to the organisation and its external environment
12. methods of risk assessments
13. procedures for investigating and reporting
14. principles of organisational policies and systems
15. organisational procedures for health, safety and environmental systems, emergencies, environmental issues and health screening
16. organisational procedures for the prevention, investigation and reporting of incidents and accidents
17. how to report and record to best effect
18. the importance of compliance with systems and legislation and possible consequences of non-compliance
19. system requirements to monitor and maintain a healthy and safe environment
20. implications of current health, safety and environmental legislation on the business and work undertaken by individuals
21. how to ensure compliance with current statutory requirements
22. how to carry out risk assessments
23. risks and hazards specific to your own area of responsibility/control
24. the need for involvement of health, safety and environmental specialists

Keywords: Food; Drink; Manufacturing; Environmental; Waste; Good; Practice; Legislation