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3.4 Assess Health and Safety Risks in Your Business
| Title: | Assess Health and Safety Risks in Your Business |
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| QCA code: | A/500/4583 |
| Level: | Three |
| Credit Value: | Two |
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Learning Outcomes The learner will: |
Assessment criteria The learner can: |
| 1.1 Assess why it is important to your business that health and safety risk assessments are carried out 1.2 Describe the legal responsibilities and requirements for conducting health and safety risk assessments in a particular workplace 1.3 Assess different methods of identifying hazards and select the most appropriate for the particular workplace 1.4 Investigate hazards for work activities and the people affected and rank them according to potential for serious harm to health and safety 1.5 Select effective elimination or control measures for each potential hazard and explain how they meet legal requirements and any relevant industry standards |
| 2.1 Produce a record of significant hazards and related control measures that meet legal requirements and identify individual responsibilities 2.2 Demonstrate how the risk assessment record should be kept and communicated to ensure control measures are implemented in the particular workplace |
| 3.1 Describe potential factors and changes in the workplace that may result in the need for a re-assessment to take place 3.2 Explain why, how and when a review of the risk assessment should take place |
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Unit aim(s) |
To support the development of skills needed to carry out, record and review health and safety risk assessment when starting a business |
| Unit expiry date | 2008 |
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Details of the relationship between the unit and relevant national occupational standards (if appropriate) |
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Details of the relationship between the unit and other standards or curricula (if appropriate) |
Not applicable |
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Assessment requirements specified by a sector or regulatory body (if appropriate) |
Assessment to be based on naturally occurring evidence or realistic work environment |
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Endorsement of the unit by a sector or other appropriate body (if required) |
Supported by SFEDI |
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Location of the unit within the subject/sector classification system |
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Name of the organisation submitting the unit |
OCR |
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Availability for use |
To be used only by the following partners engaged in the SFEDI Framework project when developing Business Enterprise Qualifications CMI, Edexcel, IAB, ILM, NOCN, OCR, VTCT |
