UNIT STANDARD 113852

Unit Standard Title

Apply occupational health, safety and environmental principles

Unit Standard ID : 113852

NQF Level : 3

Credits : 10

Purpose

Learners acquiring this standard will be learning towards obtaining a national qualification or are working within a health and safety environment, where acquisition of competence against this standard will add value to learner’s job, or chances of finding employment.

The qualifying learner is capable of:

• Identifying hazards
• Evaluating hazards
• Controlling hazards
• Explaining and using relevant legislation and regulations
• Gathering and organising occupational health, safety and environmental information from the workplace
• Carrying out occupational health and safety training
• Learning Assumed To Be In Place

Learners accessing this unit standard / qualification will have demonstrated competence against adequate reading and writing skills as well as knowledge of the workplace in terms of the jobs performed by people on a team, procedures required of them and experience of dealing with problems and processes in the workplace.

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