Unit 06 - Ensure Your Own Actions Reduce Risks to Health & Safety

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Unit 06 –  Ensure Your Own Actions Reduce Risks to Health & Safety

Understand how to ensure your own actions reduce risks to health and safety in a Creative Media workplace

What does this mean? How do we define risks to health and safety? What precautions can we take to ensure that we have reduced the risks of an accident at work?

• Define, and outline key hazards and risks in own workplace (specific to your own job role), describing safe working practices
• Identify own responsibilities for health and safety in own workplace and job role under health and safety legislation, explaining the importance of personal presentation and behaviour
• Describe procedures for dealing with risks outside the scope of own responsibility, identifying the appropriate personnel with whom to liaise in own workplace
• Identify workplace instructions relevant to own job
• Identify any unsafe practices in own workplace and job role
• Check which potentially unsafe working practices present the highest risk to self and others
• Take action to address any hazards in accordance with workplace procedures and legal requirements
• Describe how to work safely in accordance with own level of competence, relevant instructions and legal requirements, following environmentally friendly practices
• Manage any health and safety risks within own capability and responsibility
• Suggest ways of reducing risks to health and safety to the appropriate personnel
• Report any differences between workplace and suppliers’ or manufacturers’ instructions

Use the internet to aid you in the completion of this task.

1.1, 1.2

http://www.aabr.org.au/vcn/12_2risks.htm

1.3

http://www.healthandsafetywise.co.uk/Safeworkingpractices/tabid/65/Default.aspx

2.1, 2.2

http://www.healthandsafetywise.co.uk/Safeworkingpractices/tabid/65/Default.aspx

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/37

3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6

http://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/faqs/

Once complete, copy your blog url (e.g. distinctivetrainingCDM.blogspot.com/unit06) in the COMMENT section underneath. We will then click the link and assess your blog from there.

Outcomes covered in this blog:

Unit 6.1.1, 6.1.2, 6.1.3, 6.2.1, 6.2.2, 6.3.1, 6.3.2, 6.3.3, 6.3.4, 6.4.1, 6.4.2, 6.4.3, 6.4.4