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The Health and Safety Executive prefer that an employee within the company is the
competent person, however that said whilst the individual is gaining experience it may be
worthwile engaging a consultant in the short term.
Any employer or the employee to whom the responsibility is delegated, can become
sufficiently competent to manage health and safety issieus within their company. Competence is
often demonstrated by the award of qualifications or the certification of training received.
There are two levels of competence, individual and company.
Company competence is the ability of any company to manage effectively health and safety
through policies and procedures.
Individual competence is the ability of an individual to work safely without endangering
themselves or anyone else and the ability to recognise if an unsafe situation is apparent.
The need for competence extends to the people who plan, carry out and supervise work
activities.
A step-by-step approach recommended by the Health and Safety Executive includes these
basic principles:-
1. Setting your policy
2. Planning and setting standards
3. Controlling and organizing staff
4. Performance measuring
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involve employees in health and safety decision making and keep them interested in being
involved
establish area of health and safety weaknesses
take appropriate action to overcome the weaknesses
ensure sufficient competent people and time and money are available to implement the
actions
implement and make sure actions are complied with
actively involved employees where further improvements are req1uired
investigate when things go wrong to prevent issues arising again
Performance Measuring
Performance Measuring
The effectiveness of measuring a businesses health and safety management can be measured by:
1. Using earlier risk assessments
2. Gathering and evaluating information on how many accidents over a period, what the
causes were and the effects they had
3. Investigating workers feedback on near misses and dangerous occurrences
4. Gathering information on reportable diseases
5. Results of health and safety audits
6. Benchmarking against previous audits
Safety audits
Safety audits
A safety audit is the management's way of showing commitment to monitor and improve where
necessary the effectiveness of the businesses safety management system.
The audit is carried out by management and may also have a representative with them at the time
if they so wish. The aim is to identify problem areas and then implement improvements to
increase the overall standard of safety awareness. Paying particular attention to:
the work environment
the safety culture
and the way in which each affects the others
Monitoring
Monitoring
The types of monitoring used in auditing are:
Proactive method -measures current level of compliance with business procedures and
lesiglation
reactive method - monitors anything that has actually happened, accidents, incidents, near misses
and ill health
Risk Management
Risk Management
The cornerstone of the risk management process are in the accuracy of risk assessments
To carry out a risk assessment it will involve:
1. Identifying and recording the hazards
2. Eliminating the hazards found and recording outcomes
3. Controlling and recording the risks from the hazards that remain
4. Informing the employees who are at risk of the findings and including informing the control
measures to be put in place
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5. Periodically reviewing the risk assessments and amending them as necessary to ensure they
remain effective