507.1 Develop and implement communication systems for health and safety information into your organisation
507.2 Develop and implement communication systems for health and safety information within your organisation
507.3 Develop and implement communication systems for health and safety information out of your organisation
About this unit
This unit is appropriate for you if your role involves:
• evaluating health and safety information external to your organisation
• communicating to your organisation relevant health and safety information generated from outside
• ensuring an effective health and safety communication system within your organisation
• ensuring that relevant health and safety information from within your organisation is
communicated to statutory authorities, local authorities and relevant groups and individuals.
The activities you are likely to be involved in:
• ensuring the directors, senior, line, functional and technical managers and employee representatives receive and understand relevant his from outside your organisation on:
• health and safety information related to input materials, goods, equipment, services and resources
• developments in health and safety risk assessment and control procedures and practices
• developments in health and safety best practice
• proposed and new health and safety legislation, codes of practice and standards
• ensuring that directors, senior, line, functional and technical managers and employee representatives receive and understand relevant his from within your organisation on:
• health and safety information resulting from active and reactive monitoring and review
• health and safety performance improvement initiatives and activities
• health and safety promoting initiatives and activities
• ensuring that directors, senior, line, functional and technical managers and employee representatives receive and understand relevant health and safety information generated within your organisation and given outside concerning:
• health and safety information communicated to the regulatory authorities
• health and safety information communicated to the local authorities
• health and safety information communicated to other relevant groups and individuals
• health and safety information communicated to trade associations and voluntary bodies
• ensuring that suitable records are kept in you organisation of all health and safety information and communication systems
• maintaining the communication system of your organisation for documented health and safety standards and procedures
• ensuring that the relevant health and safety standards and procedures of your organisation are communicated to contractors and other relevant groups
• ensuring that health and safety information for products, services, scrap goods and materials, and waste outputs of your organisation are produced and issued to relevant receivers
THE NATIONAL OCCUPATIONAL STANDARD
Element 507.1
Develop and implement communication systems for health and safety information into your organisation
Performance Criteria
You must be able to:
1 identify and evaluate proposed and new health and safety legislation, codes of practice, and standards of relevance to your organisation
2 evaluate developments in health and safety risk assessment and control procedures and practices, technical developments and best practice
3 develop and implement appropriate communication systems in your organisation for relevant proposed and new health and safety legislation, codes of practice, standards, health and safety risk assessment and control procedures and practices, technical developments and best practiced
4 collect and keep a record of all relevant health and safety information relating to input materials, goods, equipment, services and resources bought in by your organisation 5 develop and implement appropriate communication systems for relevant health and safety
information relating to input materials, goods, equipment, services and resources bought in by your organisation
6 identify, evaluate and communicate, as necessary, health and safety information and comment on relevance to your organisation.
THE NATIONAL OCCUPATIONAL STANDARD
Element 507.2
Develop and implement communication systems for health and safety information within your organisation
Performance Criteria
You must be able to:
1. develop and implement communication systems for the information resulting from the active and reactive monitoring and review of the health and safety performance of your organisation 2. develop and implement communication systems for the health and safety performance
initiatives of your organisation
3. develop and implement communication systems for the health and safety promotion activities of your organisation
4. ensure that the health and safety culture and policy are kept in the forefront of the activities of your organisation.
THE NATIONAL OCCUPATIONAL STANDARD
Element 507.3
Develop and implement communication systems for health and safety information out of your organisation
Performance Criteria
You must be able to:
1. ensure that the statutory reporting of the health and safety information of your organisation to the regulatory and local authorities is carried out
2. ensure that the relevant health and safety information of your organisation is communicated to trade associations, voluntary bodies, interested parties and individuals
3. ensure that the relevant health and safety information of your organisation for products, services and waste is given to the relevant recipients
4. ensure that the relevant health and safety standards and procedures of your organisation are given to contractors.
507 Develop and implement effective communication systems for
health and safety information
Knowledge requirements
You need the following knowledge to perform the Elements of Competence. You will show this through the outcome of your work activities and through evaluations of your systems and procedures.
You need to be able to show that you have general knowledge and understanding of the following:
The nature and role of effective communication systems for health and safety information within the organisation
1. how to establish the active and reactive performance criteria and records of an organisation
Principles and concepts
2. how to apply the principles and practices of effective written and verbal communication 3. how to make effective use of electronic information, retrieval, storage and
communication systems
External factors influencing effective communication systems for health and safety information
4. how to identify and evaluate health and safety risk assessment and control procedures and practices, technical developments and best practice
5. how to identify and evaluate proposed and new health and safety legislation, codes of practice and standards
6. how to identify and select appropriate health and safety promotional activities relevant to the needs of an organisation
7. how to identify and apply the health and safety statutory reporting requirements for an organisation
8. how to identify and apply the health and safety statutory information requirements for the products, services and waste of an organisation
9. how to identify and apply the health and safety standards and procedures of an organisation that are relevant to the contractors used by the organisation.