PROHSS6 - Conduct a health and safety risk assessment of a workplace (import from health and safety standards)
Overview
This standard covers the skills and knowledge required to identify hazards, evaluate the risks and make recommendations to control the risk and to review the results. This standard is for people carrying out risk assessments in the workplace. This could be an employer, line manager, supervisor, safety representative or employee.
Outcomes
Performance Criteria
You must be able to:
1. define why and where the risk assessment will be carried out.
2. recognise your own limitations and seek expert advice and guidance on operational controls when appropriate.
3. select appropriate methods for identifying hazards and evaluating risks.
4. prioritise those areas at work where hazards with a potential for serious harm to health are most likely to occur
5. identify hazards which have the potential to cause harm and/or loss
6. review internal and external standards and guidelines
7. confirm that appropriate precautions are in place
8. assess the level of risk and record significant findings
9. consider and prioritise where further controls are required
10. present the results and reasonably practicable recommendations of the risk assessment to the responsible people
11. review and revise the risk assessment as appropriate
12. maintain suitable and sufficient records
13. take suitable action to control or remove imminent risk
Knowledge & Understanding
You need to know and understand:
1. relevant legal requirements and standards
2. workplace hazards which are most likely to cause harm or loss
3. importance of remaining alert to the presence of hazards in the workplace
4. methods of identifying hazards and risk
5. purpose, legal implications and importance of carrying out risk assessments
6. techniques for carrying out a risk assessment
7. particular health and safety risks which may affect your own job role and the precautions to be taken
8. resources required for risk assessments to take place
9. information sources for risk assessments
10. what to do with the results of risk assessments
11. importance of dealing with, or promptly reporting relevant hazards and risks
12. your own limitations, job responsibilities and capabilities
13. where to find expert advice and guidance
14. work areas and people for whom you are carrying out assessments
15. work activities of people in the workplace where you are carrying out risk assessments
PROHSS6 - Conduct a health and safety risk assessment of a workplace (import from health and safety standards)
Overview
This standard covers the skills and knowledge required to identify hazards, evaluate the risks and make recommendations to control the risk and to review the results. This standard is for people carrying out risk assessments in the workplace. This could be an employer, line manager, supervisor, safety representative or employee.
Outcomes
Performance Criteria
You must be able to:
1. define why and where the risk assessment will be carried out.
2. recognise your own limitations and seek expert advice and guidance on operational controls when appropriate.
3. select appropriate methods for identifying hazards and evaluating risks.
4. prioritise those areas at work where hazards with a potential for serious harm to health are most likely to occur
5. identify hazards which have the potential to cause harm and/or loss
6. review internal and external standards and guidelines
7. confirm that appropriate precautions are in place
8. assess the level of risk and record significant findings
9. consider and prioritise where further controls are required
10. present the results and reasonably practicable recommendations of the risk assessment to the responsible people
11. review and revise the risk assessment as appropriate
12. maintain suitable and sufficient records
13. take suitable action to control or remove imminent risk
Knowledge & Understanding
You need to know and understand:
1. relevant legal requirements and standards
2. workplace hazards which are most likely to cause harm or loss
3. importance of remaining alert to the presence of hazards in the workplace
4. methods of identifying hazards and risk
5. purpose, legal implications and importance of carrying out risk assessments
6. techniques for carrying out a risk assessment
7. particular health and safety risks which may affect your own job role and the precautions to be taken
8. resources required for risk assessments to take place
9. information sources for risk assessments
10. what to do with the results of risk assessments
11. importance of dealing with, or promptly reporting relevant hazards and risks
12. your own limitations, job responsibilities and capabilities
13. where to find expert advice and guidance
14. work areas and people for whom you are carrying out assessments
15. work activities of people in the workplace where you are carrying out risk assessments
16. effective communication methods
17. how to identify suitable control measures