National Occupational Standards

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This workforce competence is aimed at everyone at work, whether paid, unpaid, full or part-time. The scope of the current health and safety legislation covers ‘all persons’ whether employers, employee, self-employed, contractors, etc. Amongst other things the Act seeks to secure the health, safety and welfare of people whilst they work and protect other people against risks to health and safety arising from the activity of people at work. This workforce competence does not require you to undertake a full risk assessment, it is about you having an appreciation of significant risks in the workplace and knowing how to identify them and deal with them.

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This workforce competence covers the competencies needed to identify hazards in the workplace, assess the level of risk resulting from those hazards, make recommendations to control the risk and review the results. This workforce competence is for people required to, or who have been asked to, carry out a risk assessment in the workplace. They could be an employer, line manager, supervisor, safety representative or employee.

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This workforce competence is about enabling individuals to access and use information. Individuals may be, for example, clients, patients, health practitioners and members of the public.

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This workforce competence covers reviewing learning and development achievements and opportunities and identifying and agreeing learning aims and programmes.

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This workforce competence covers choosing options for meeting learning needs and designing learning programmes for learners.

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This workforce competence covers negotiating learning programmes with learners, reviewing learning programmes and agreeing changes with learners.

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This workforce competence covers identifying options for training sessions and delivering training sessions for learners.

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This workforce competence covers developing learning materials and choosing materials to support learning.

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This workforce competence covers giving presentations to groups and producing follow-up exercises.

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This workforce competence covers demonstrating skills and methods to learners and instructing learners in procedures and processes.

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This workforce competence covers using coaching as a way of encouraging individual learning. It includes coaching individual learners and helping them to apply their learning.

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This workforce competence covers planning the mentoring process, setting up and maintaining the mentoring relationship and giving mentoring support.

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This workforce competence covers giving individual learners guidance to help them plan their learning and advising/supporting individual learners in managing their own learning.

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This workforce competence covers reviewing progress with learners.

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