Level 2: Health & Safety in Workplace

• Understand the responsibilities of employees in the construction environment.
  • Describe the employer’s obligations.
  • Outline the benefits of good health and safety standards
  • Outline the requirements for training and competence in the workplace
  • Outline the ways in which health and safety information can be communicated
• Expertise to decrease dangers to guarantee a protected development climate
  • Define the terms hazard, risk, accident and near miss
  • Outline the process for carrying out a risk assessment
  • Describe how risk assessment can be used to reduce accidents and ill health at work
• Understand how to identify and control the risks from common workplace hazards
  • 3.1 Describe the common hazards and effects of accidents, near miss and ill health at workplace
  • 3.2 Explain the hierarchy of control
  • 3.4 Describe how risk assessment reduces accidents and illnesses and reduces the number of jobs
• Know the procedures for responding to accidents, near miss and ill health in the workplace
  • Identify the procedures that should be in place for dealing with accidents at workplace
  • Outline why it is best practice to record all incidents, accidents and ill health

Qualification is assessed:

• It is assessed by a multiple-choice examination.