Introduction
Monitoring Safety Health and Environment covers the principles of monitoring SH&E policies and procedures for site supervisors and managers.
The unit is presented in four sections:
- SH&E practices.
- Risk assessment.
- Emergency procedures.
- Environment procedures.
Assignments
Each section in the unit contains an Assignment. Its purpose is to test the learner's understanding of the principles covered in that section and their ability to apply the concepts to their own workplace experiences. The Assignments are suitable for use as assessment activities and may be either emailed to the trainer or submitted in hard copy as assessment evidence.
The Assignment for SH&E practices asks the learner to describe the methods they use in their own organisation to monitor the effectiveness of the company's safety and environmental policies and procedures.
The Assignment for Risk assessment asks the learner to detail the processes they use to monitor the control measures implemented to address a particular set of risks in their workplace.
The Assignment for Emergency procedures provides the opportunity for the learner to review the currency and adequacy of their organisation's emergency response procedures, and develop an action list to address any problems they have identified.
The Assignment for Environment procedures asks the learner to describe the processes they use to monitor the effectiveness of the organisation's environmental procedures.
Learning activities
Each section contains two Lessons, which provide the content information for the subject. Within each lesson is a Learning activity, designed to reinforce the concepts presented and allow the learner to apply them to their own workplace situation. For learners who are undertaking group training, or have access to learners in other locations, these activities also provide the opportunity for them to share their thoughts and discuss the similarities and differences in their experiences.
The lessons and learning activities are set out below.
Section 1: SH&E practices
| Lesson | Description of learning activity |
|---|---|
| Methods of monitoring | Asks the learner to review a set of attitudes to safety and environmental care and apply the different categories to their own organisation. |
| SH&E management systems | Provides an interactive questionnaire designed to help them measure how successfully a company's policies and procedures are being implemented. |
Section 2: Risk assessment
| Lesson | Description of learning activity |
|---|---|
| The risk assessment process | Provides a brief revision exercise on assessing and controlling risks using the WorkCover risk rating table and hierarchy of controls. |
| Monitoring control measures | Asks the learner to answer series of questions regarding the monitoring of hazard control measures in the workplace. |
Section 3: Emergency procedures
| Lesson | Description of learning activity |
|---|---|
| Designing an emergency plan | Asks the learner a series of questions about their work environment and the emergency plan they have in place. |
| Roles of personnel | Asks the learner to make a comparison between their own 'emergency control organisation' (or equivalent) and the ECO described in the lesson. |
Section 4: Environmental procedures
| Lesson | Description of learning activity |
|---|---|
| Community and the law | Asks the learner to consider some examples of complaints from members of the public and describe possible solutions. |
| Company policies and procedures | Asks the learner to look at a particular law or regulation that relates to the policies and procedures that they implement in their own work. |
Employability skills
Below are the employability skills and learning and assessment strategies applicable to this unit.
- Communication
- Working in groups, either face-to-face or via a social networking site
- Communicating with and responding to other learners
- Teamwork
- Group discussion, either face-to-face or electronically
- Working in a team
- Interactive activities
- Problem Solving
- Case studies
- Researching
- Decision making activities
- Initiative and enterprise
- Research
- Suggesting changes and improvements
- Planning and organising
- Planning
- Collecting and analysing information
- Self management
- Work plans
- Learning
- Using skills in different contexts
- Self-evaluation tool
- Technology
- Using the internet
- Using ICT skills to complete activities and communicate with others
Communication activities
It is envisaged that most learners will be undertaking a qualification via flexible delivery mode, and will be working independently through the learning material in this Toolbox in between scheduled site visits by their trainer/assessor. Where learners in different locations are undertaking the same units of competency with a Registered Training Organisations (RTO), the trainer may decide to put them in contact with each other via email, and to hold regular web-based group training sessions.
The learning activities are designed to promote discussion between learners and their trainer, either in a face-to-face group session, or via a range of electronic means, including telephone hook-ups, group emails or a social networking site.
Assessment suggestions
Each section contains an Assignment, which is designed to provide some of the evidence required for an RTO to assess a learner as competent in the unit being undertaken. Other evidence that would need to be gathered by the RTO would include a third party report from the learner's supervisor. Trainers may also wish to use the completed learning activities and the discussions generated between learners as further evidence of competence.
For candidates who believe they may be eligible for recognition of prior learning (RPL) assessment, the RPL Expressway provides detailed information on the specific performance criteria that apply to the unit, and the types of evidence they would need to present to the RTO. The RPL Expressway is also useful for learners who are self-assessing their progress and identifying any gaps in their current level of skills and knowledge.
Related resources
All resources needed to complete activities are provided within the site, with the exception of external sources of information that the learner may consult while carrying out their own research. Internally linked resources include Word documents. Website links are also provided for learners to follow up if they wish to research a topic more thoroughly.
Learners may also benefit from accessing the following learning objects from the:
LORN (Learning Object Repository Network) website.
- Safety and environment (aligned to: FPICOR3201A: Implement safety, health and environmental policies and procedures) from the Series 12 'Timber Toolbox'.
- Preventing fires (aligned to: FPICOR2204A: Follow fire prevention procedures) from the Series 13 'Timber Plus Toolbox'
- Monitor a safe workplace (aligned to: BSBCMN411A – Monitor a safe workplace)
Unit of competency
The Unit of Competency relating to this Toolbox unit is linked below.
For more information about the Competency, please go to the National Training Information Service (NTIS) website to see the Forest and Forest Products Training Package (FPI05).
FPI05 Training Package (NTIS website)