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AJ9 Reduce risks to health and safety in the workplace

AJ9.2 Identify the hazards and evaluate the risks in your workplace

Performance Required

This will involve:

1. correctly naming and locating the persons responsible for health and safety in the workplace
2. identifying which workplace policies are relevant to your working practices
3. identifying those working practices in any part of your job role which could harm yourself or other persons
4. identifying those aspects of the workplace which could harm yourself or other persons
5. evaluating which of the potentially harmful aspects of the workplace are those with the highest risk to you or to others
6. reporting those hazards which present a high risk to the persons responsible for health and safety in the workplace
7. dealing with hazards with low risks in accordance with workplace policies and legal requirements

Occupational Context

1. Types of risks:
   • the use and maintenance of machinery or equipment
   • the use of materials or substances
   • working practices which do not conform to laid down policies
   • unsafe behaviour
   • accidental breakages and spillages
   • environmental factors.

Knowledge Requirements

You need to know about:

• What the agreed workplace policies are relating to controlling risks to health and safety
• Responsibilities for health and safety in your job description
• Who the responsible persons are to whom to report health and safety matters

Required Skills

You should demonstrate:

• Communication skills
• Risk assessment techniques

Evidence Required

You should provide evidence that you can identify the hazards and evaluate the risks in your workplace

The candidate should be questioned, based upon the documentation provided, to explore how they:

• identify the hazards and evaluate the risks in their workplace.

Evidence Rules

The candidate should have been involved in hazard risk assessment on at least 2 substantive projects.

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