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Overview

These NVQs are designed to reflect the work of candidates with health and safety responsibilities.

The NVQs will be appropriate for candidates who are working in the area of general health and safety practice or managing the health and safety function. They may be managers or supervisors who have a specific responsibility for health and safety or they may be newly appointed safety advisers or professionals.

Skills

All such practitioners are involved in the assessment of risks, the identification of hazards and determining strategies for control. There are a number of skills that they would all need and use, such as:

• raising awareness about health and safety within the organisation
• using information to promote good practice
• maintaining and enhancing health and safety systems
• promoting good relationships to enhance health and safety practice

Qualification aims

The aim of the overall qualification is to assess the candidates ability to:

• evaluate and develop their own practice
• promote a positive health and safety culture
• develop and implement the health and safety policy
• develop and implement effective communication systems for health and safety information
• develop and maintain individual and organisational competence in health and safety matters
• identify and evaluate health and safety hazards
• assess health and safety risks
• determine and implement health and safety risk control measures
• develop and implement active monitoring systems for health and safety
• develop and implement reactive monitoring systems for health and safety
• develop and implement health and safety emergency response systems and procedures
• develop and implement health and safety review systems
• develop and implement healthy and safety audit systems
• contribute to health and safety legal actions (additional)
• influence and keep pace with improvements in health and safety practice (additional)
• manage the use of financial resources (additional)
• develop and implement systems and procedures to minimise environmental impact of the organisation (additional)