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Health and Safety Practices
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European strategy to integrate safety and health into vocational training
and Review of Health & Safety Standards New Sister Latest qualifications accredited EP@W Service We wish to provide online materials to be compatible with these generic skills. These can be customised to fit particular roles and circumstances, and can be "blended" with colleges and training providers We can now also offer these materials to comply with SCORM intenational e-learning standard, and we can also link to online databases that you can interrogate. |
What you Need to Know to Build Health and Safety Skills... Competence An aim of the Health and Safety Executive's Training Strategy is to "promote an awareness of the importance of competence in controlling risk". Competence is about what people can do. Standards can be laid down to spell out the skills that are needed to carry out certain tasks and demonstrate "competence" - here, for improved health and safety practices.
Levels For managers this may include 'developing H&S policies', for autonomous workers 'producing procedures', and for supervised workers "taking care". We use health and safety law to determine the overall roles and responsibilities. (More on HS&ES skills matrix). These roles correspond to the levels in vocational training - 4 for managers, 3 for supervisory & skiled workers and 2 for supervised workers. For each level there are recognised abilities that people can be expected to attain - eg. level 4 to 'manage', level 3 to 'analyse' and level 2 to 'identify'. Standards Look at the National Occupational Standards (NOSs)s. These standards outline the skills needed to promote more effective health and safety. They were drawn up by all the relevant stakeholders and lay down criteria for eight units, each representing particular functions that need to be undertaken in a large workplace to promote health and safety. There are now several Awarding Bodies offering vocationally related qualifications (VRQs) to demonstrate achievement of the necessary learning, skills and competence to promote better health and safety. LANTRA & NPTC have developed a suite of 3 levels of qualifications with particular reference to agriculture and horticulture. See Programmes BSC (British Safety Council) Awards have developed qualifications for levels 1 Certificate in H&S@work, 2 Certificate in Risk Assessment and 3 Certificate in Occupational H&S (and a level 6!). See our Extensive list of H&S Vocational Qualifications. e-Learning Your local training provider should look to see if they can deliver these qualifications and how you may get a "Certificate of Competence" in say, 'Risk Assessment'. Funding should be available through the Learning & Skills Funding system (although they will not fund for H&S course that are merely How you are going to put all this together? Answer
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