Health and Safety
This course is designed for specialist responders, emergency response personnel, rescue teams, operational support staff, incident management personnel and other individuals who are required to manage health and safety risks within dynamic, complex or multi-agency operational environments.
Learners will gain the knowledge, skills and professional judgement necessary to identify hazards, assess risks, implement appropriate control measures, establish safe systems of work and maintain effective health and safety arrangements during specialist response activities. The programme develops competence in both dynamic and formal risk assessment processes, incident safety management and health and safety documentation.
Through a combination of theory, practical exercises, case-based learning and operational scenarios, learners will develop the capability to apply health and safety principles consistently within specialist incidents, ensuring that risks to responders, supporting personnel, partner agencies and members of the public are reduced so far as is reasonably practicable. The course supports workplace competence by enabling learners to contribute effectively to incident planning, operational decision-making, risk communication, safety monitoring and incident recording processes. Successful completion assists organisations in meeting their duties relating to health, safety and welfare within specialist response activities.
The standard reflects the importance of effective health and safety management within potentially hazardous and rapidly changing operational environments where poor decision-making, ineffective communication or inadequate risk controls may result in injury, illness, property damage, environmental harm or operational failure.
Relevant legislation may include, but is not limited to:
1. Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
2. Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
3. Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDOR)
4. Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992 (as amended by the Personal Protective Equipment at Work (Amendment) Regulations 2022)
5. Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992
6. COSHH Regulations 2002 -
7. Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007
8. Equality Act 2010
9. Human Rights Act 1998
National Occupational Standards (NOS) may include, but are not limited to:
1. Managing risks to health, safety and welfare in the workplace
2. Maintaining health, safety and welfare during operational activities
3. Assessing and controlling workplace risks
4. Contributing to incident command and control arrangements
5. Working effectively within multi-agency environments
6. Implementing safe systems of work
7. Monitoring compliance with health and safety requirements
8. Recording and reporting operational information and incidents
This UKRS Course Standard operates as an industry-aligned accredited training standard. Unlike regulated qualifications overseen by Ofqual, Qualifications Wales or SQA Accreditation, this standard forms part of the UKRS non-regulated accreditation framework for competence-based industry training.
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