This qualification is designed for current supervisors and managers who have direct responsibility for health and safety in their workplace. It is also appropriate for individuals who aspire to become supervisors or managers with health and safety responsibilities in the future. The guided learning hours for this qualification total 40 hours.
These include understanding the duties and responsibilities of employers, employees and others in relation to health and safety at work and being able to explain the moral, social and economic reasons for maintaining and promoting good health and safety standards within the workplace. The process by which health and safety is managed in an organization including the use of health and safety policies, methods to ensure employers and employees communicate and co-operate on health and safety issues effectively.
How to explain the role of risk assessments and safe systems of
work in the management of health and safety along with the audit processes and documentation used to maintain and improve health and safety standards. Understanding the procedures for developing and implementing risk assessment and recording of safe systems of work for a range of tasks and procedures, such as manufacturing/construction tasks, substances hazardous to health, general hazards of the working environment.
Being able explain the procedures for reviewing an organization’s practices and policy with regards to health and safety at work and state how changes can be implemented following a review of risk assessments, safe systems of work and incidents. To be able to Outline International standards and conventions such as International Standards Organization (ISO) and the International Labor Organization (ILO).