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Element 3 Managing Risk - Understanding

People and Processes
Terms in this set (37)

Note: your definition should cover the main points

given in the element:

• safety culture is the shared attitudes, values,

beliefs and behaviours relating to health and
1. Define "health and
safety; or

safety culture"
• safety culture is the way that all the people within
an organisation think and feel about health and
safety and how this translates into behaviour.

It can be positive or negative.

A worker's peers may exert influence through

peer group pressure. This is the process by which
social groups form in the workplace, group
2. How do a worker's
behaviour is established ('norms') and then social
peers exert influence
pressure is exerted to force individuals to comply
over their behaviour
with the group behaviour. There will usually be
one or more group leaders who influence the
group to a very high degree.

3. What are the main ...

benefits and limitations
of both written and
verbal forms of
communication

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Graphic symbols, such as the pictogram showing

a person moving through a fire escape door and
4. Giving an example, an arrow to show the direction of travel found on
state why graphic an emergency escape route sign, are used to
symbols (suchcas communicate simple but essential health and
picograms) are used to safety information to people. They are used
communicate safety because they do not require the person to read
information text and they therefore avoid literacy or language
barriers

Workers can be involved by:

• Encouraging their participation in safety

committees and other safety meetings.

• Asking for their suggestions for improvements

(perhaps using a suggestions box or similar
scheme).

• Involving them in the selection of PPE and other

5. How can workers be equipment.

involved in the • Providing them with hazard-spotting and defect

improvement of reporting systems.

workplace health and • Encouraging their participation in safety tours

safety and inspections, audits, risk assessments, accident
investigations and the development of
procedures and safe systems of work.

• Assisting in the presentation of safety training,

and the supervision/mentoring of new
employees, particularly young persons.

• Designing or involvement in the selection of

safety posters.

In a non-unionised workplace employers must

consult employees directly or through elected
6. How must
representatives (Representatives of Employee
employers consult
Safety). In a unionised workplace they must
employees
consult through Trade Union Safety
Representatives.

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Trade Union Safety Representatives have the right

to:

• Carry out an inspection of the workplace (at

least once every three months).

• Examine the causes of accidents.

• Examine and copy records and documents

7. What rights do trade relating to health and safety.

unions safety • Receive information from HSE inspectors.

representatives have • Investigate complaints about health and safety.

• Make representations to the employer.

• Be consulted on health and safety matters.

• Time off with pay to perform their functions.

• Time off with pay for appropriate training.

• Reasonable facilities to perform their functions.

Employers must establish a safety committee

8. When must an when requested to do so in writing by two or
employer establish a more Trade Union Safety Representatives. The
safety committee employer then has three months to set the
committee up.

The first priority in induction training should be to

set out what to do in the event of a fire or other
9. What should be the major incident, and the general instructions and
first priority in procedures to be followed for safe movement
induction training around the workplace. These are the priorities.
The induction training can then move on to other
topics.

Whenever there is a significant change to the job

which workers are to perform, a significant
10. Apart from at change to the processes they have to carry out,
induction, when should routinely as refresher training, after an accident, or
training be provided near miss, after the introduction of new
technology and when the relevant legislation
changes.

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11. Identify the three Organisational factors, job factors and individual
factors that impact on factors; collectively, these are the three 'human
a workers health and factors' that influence safety-related behaviour.
safety-related
behaviour

The key job factors that can impact on safety-

related behaviour include (any four from):

The task being done and how well or badly it has

been designed.

12. What four key job

Workload such as number of tasks and deadlines.

factors that can impact

The environment in which work takes place and
on safety- related
how comfortable or uncomfortable this is.

behaviour
The design and functionality of displays and
controls that a worker has to use in order to do
the job.

The suitability of any procedures that the worker

has been provided with.

Workers might not perceive risk at work because

of the influence of illness, personal inexperience,
13. Why might workers poor quality education and training, drugs and
not correctly perceive alcohol, fatigue, stress, interference from PPE that
risk at work has to be worn or interference form the
workplace environment (such as high noise
levels).

14. Why is distinction The distinction is important because hazards will

between hazards and always exist in the workplace and usually it is not
risks so important to possible to eliminate all of them. Risk can be
health and safety controlled and reduced. This is a central principle
management of health and safety management.

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The purpose of risk assessment is to eliminate

hazards or reduce risk to an acceptable level so
15. What is the purpose
as to prevent personal injury and ill health, to
of risk assessment
achieve legal compliance and to reduce the costs
associated with losses.

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