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AJ9 Reduce risks to health and safety in the workplace

AJ9.4 Review the effectiveness of health and safety procedures in your workplace

Performance Required

This will involve:

1. identifying any changes to legal regulations or guidance affecting current working practices
2. identifying changes in the workplace affecting current workplace health and safety procedures
3. providing responsible persons with opportunities to give feedback about the implementation of health and safety procedures
4. reviewing all relevant health and safety reports and data for opportunities to improve the workplace health and safety procedures
5. identifying and obtaining further information and advice from reliable and recognised sources of expertise
6. recording accurately the details of any review carried out, and the plans to improve current health and safety procedures
7. alerting all people in the workplace, promptly, to the revised health and safety procedures
8. setting effective measures in place for monitoring the revised health and safety procedures

Occupational Context

1. Changes in the workplace:
   • working practices
   • plant, machinery or materials
   • personnel
2. Information and advice:
   • systems for assessing and recording degree of risk
   • specific legal requirements
   • specific equipment and process risks.

Knowledge Requirements

You need to know and understand how to:

• Conduct an effective health and safety review

You need to know about:

The workplace

• The work areas and people for whom you are responsible
• The job roles of the people for whom you are responsible
• What information may be available on health and safety within the workplace

Evaluation requirements

• The appropriate channels of communication within the workplace

Efficacy and change:

• You must show evidence that you have included changes in the workplace in respect of: working practices, plant, machinery or materials and personnel.
• You must show evidence that you have included information and advice in respect of: systems for assessing and recording degree of risk; specific legal requirements; and specific equipment and process risks.

Required Skills

You should demonstrate:

• Evaluation and review skills

Evidence Required

You should provide evidence that you can review the effectiveness of health and safety procedures in your workplace

The candidate should be questioned, based upon the documentation provided, to explore the following

• reviewing the effectiveness of health and safety procedures in the workplace.

Evidence Rules

The candidate should have been involved in monitoring health and safety on at least 2 substantive projects.

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