health & safety training

The purpose of the training and unit standard:

This unit standard covers the current occupational health and safety and mine health and safety regulations. Specified requirements include legal requirements and are contained in one or more of the following documents:

• Current mine health and safety legislation
• Current occupational health and safety legislation

The purpose of the training and unit standard:

Persons credited with this unit standard will be able to:

• Explain the legal and specified requirements for conducting continuous risk assessments.
• Prepare to conduct a continuous risk assessment.
• Conduct a continuous risk assessment.
• Initiate remedial action and follow up on Continuous Risk Assessment.

The purpose of the training and unit standard:

Learners credited with this unit standard will be able to demonstrate the ability to conduct investigations into workplace incidents. The competency includes all the activities required to successfully conduct incident investigations.

The purpose of the training and unit standard:

Learners wishing to acquire the competencies in this standard will be, people working at height where there is a risk of injury from a fall. Learners will be involved in performing tasks at height. Qualifying learners are able to follow fall arrest principles to perform work at height safely, under supervision of a qualified supervisor.

The qualifying learner is capable of:

• Explaining the use and limitations of a limited range of fall arrest equipment and fall arrest plan.
• Inspecting, assembling and storing fall arrest equipment.
• Selecting suitable anchor points.
• Using fall arrest systems with a double lanyard.
• Using pre-installed vertical and horizontal life-lines.

In order for a successful learner of this standard to be able to function in a rope access operation, the learner must:

Be medically fit and in possession of a medical certificate, declaring the learner free from a condition that may prevent the learner from working safely as specified in the range statement. (An example of the content of the medical certificate is available in SABS 0333:2 Annex A).

The purpose of the training and unit standard:

Learners who are assessed as competent against this unit standard will be able to identify the hazard of confined spaces and the precautions required for the safety of the workers and public. This unit standard underpins the Elective Learning. It contributes to the development of a professional community of Construction workers. The contribution to The National Skills Development Strategy is the key development interface between learners and new competencies to be achieved. Its contribution to socio-economic transformation is that learners would be able to undergo RPL- assessment and thereby received recognition for previous learning and experience. The employability and career prospects of learners can therefore be enhanced by the qualification.

The purpose of the training and unit standard:

This unit standard will enable the learner to describe the requirements applicable to a permit to work in terms of hot work; cold work; confined space entry and lockout systems in a work area.
Persons accredited with this unit standard will be able to:

• Describe the requirements for hot and cold work permits.
• Describe the requirements to apply a lock-out system.
• Describe the requirements to apply a confined space entry permit.