This qualification recognises people who have the competencies required to
perform as a Safety Officer in the workplace. It is awarded to people who have
demonstrated the skills and knowledge required to perform a range of
representative tasks, including assuring own actions reduce risks to health and
safety, demonstrating responsibility within the workplace to protect the
environment, developing procedures to safely control work operations,
monitoring procedures to safely control work operations, supervising the
health, safety and welfare of an employee new to a role in the workplace,
advocating health and safety within the workplace, developing and maintaining
individual and organisational competence in health and safety matters,
developing and implementing effective communication systems for health and
safety information, developing and implementing health and safety
programmes, conducting a health and safety risks assessment of a workplace,
developing and implementing health and safety audit systems, developing and
implementing health and safety emergency response systems and
procedures, investigating and evaluating health and safety incidents, accidents
and complaints in the workplace, reviewing health and safety procedures in
workplaces, developing and reviewing the organisation's health and safety
strategy, developing and implementing health and safety review systems,
promoting a positive health and safety culture, and contributing to health safety
legal actions.
This qualification is designed to be accessible and flexible. There is no entry
level required.
The main focus is on the outcomes of this qualification, not the how, when and
where learning occurred. Some people applying to do this qualification may
currently be competent in one or more of the unit standards and should then
be given the opportunity to apply for recognition of prior learning.
- Trainer: Bure Batsirai
- Trainer: Johannes Ndjimba