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.