Manage effective safety, health and environmental systems
URN: MPQSHE07
Business Sectors (Suites): Health, Safety and Environmental Management in the Extractive and Mineral Processing Industries
Developed by: MPQC
Approved:
2019
Overview
What is this standard about?
Achievement of this standard demonstrates your competence in managing effective safety, health, and environmental systems. You will be able to review audits and analyse data, developing plans for, and implementing or improving systems which will be continually monitored and reviewed.
Who is this standard for?
This standard is applicable to anyone at a supervisory or managerial level approved to carry out this function working in the mineral extractive sector.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
- Conduct your work in line with relevant regulation, legislation, and industry best practice
- Review audits and inspections for safety, health, and environmental considerations
- Analyse safety, health, and environmental data and identify trends
- Develop SMART implementation and monitoring plans
- Engage stakeholders, by implementing company procedures, to take an active role in implementation plans
- Implement and/or improve systems for maintaining both safety and health
- Implement and/or improve systems of environmental management
- Monitor relevant safety, health, and environmental systems to identify changes or anomalies
- Maintain accurate records of systems, plans, audits, inspections, and incidents
- Evaluate changes against prior performance
- Provide information about your activities to nominated personnel
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
- Relevant regulation, legislation, company policies and procedures, and industry best practice
- How relevant stakeholders are identified
- Where to find and how to access relevant advice and reliable supporting information
- The benefits of effective safety, health, and environmental systems
- How the understanding of and commitment to safety, health, and environmental systems are established
- How other organisations influence industry standards
- The external accreditation process for safety, health, and environmental management systems
- Relevant safe systems of work
- The importance of monitoring safety, health, and environmental systems
- The techniques for monitoring the effectiveness of safety, health, and environmental systems
- Breaches of statutory duty and lines of defence
- The resolution of breaches and deficiencies in safety, health, and environmental systems
- How to write SMART objectives in order to deliver, monitor and evaluate improvement
- The personnel who may need to see any results from your activity
Scope/range
Scope Performance
Company procedures such as:
- Toolbox Talks
- Safety Committee Meetings
- Email Communication
- Training
Scope Knowledge
Values
Behaviours
Skills
Glossary
Links To Other NOS
External Links
Version Number
1
Indicative Review Date
2024
Validity
Current
Status
Original
Originating Organisation
MPQC
Original URN
MPQSHE07
Relevant Occupations
Environmental Consultant, Environmental Management Officer, Environmental Manager, Health and Safety Managers, Manager in Mineral processing and related occupations
SOC Code
2483
Keywords
SHE; Health; Safety; Environmental; quarry; quarrying; MPQC