Health and Safety Representative Stages
A Health and Safety Representative provides workers with an opportunity to have a say about Health and Safety in the workplace. While the responsibility for providing a healthy and safe workplace rests with the business, HSR's play an important role in keeping workplaces healthy and safe. By representing workers, HSR's provide a link between workers and management.
Stage 1:
- Unit Standard 29315 - Describe the roles and functions of the Health and Safety Representative
- Stage one covers the unit standard required to become a Health and Safety Representative. Only HSR's that have completed this initial training and achieved this unit standard can issue PIN's and direct unsafe work to cease.
Stage 2:
- Unit Standard 30265 - Apply health and safety risk assessment to a job role.
- Stage two gives more detail about risk assessment and identifying hazards early to ensure a safe work environment. You will cover different hazard identification procedures that you can take back and apply to your own workplace.
Stage 3:
- Unit Standard 17601 - Produce an occupational health and safety incident investigation
- Unit Standard 25042 - Prepare a workplace health and safety improvement plan using data analysis and productiviy measures.
- Stage three gives more detail about how to improve health and safety in a business / workplace and how to conduct an incident investigation to ensure no recurrence of the events and to improve health and safety in the future.
