The landscape of health and safety can appear quite daunting at first sight. Yet, like any challenge there is a solution.
Ensuring that you keep your employees safe & healthy, complying with the law and minimising financial impact is absolutely achievable. Whether you have in-house health and safety advice or use external consultants your health and safety performance can both improve and excel. Here at Protecting People we can assist with that improvement by providing high quality training and competent consultancy advice.
Your organisation can benefit form this improvement in health and safety performance. On a human level, happier, healthier employees who are more engaged. From a financial perspective, reduced insurance premiums , a lower risk of financial penalties and greater productivity. More over, the success of your health and safety provision is intrinsically linked to the success of your business. So rather than it being an unwanted burden, by investing in and improving health and safety in your organisation, the business will benefit. Good health and safety is good business.
Balancing profit and preservation is difficult, delicate work. Achieving it is a win-win for all.
IOSH (Institute of Occupational Safety and Health) have recently released their competency framework aimed at the development of health and safety practitioners.
There are many factors influencing change, including increased business
complexity, technology, the gig economy and constantly evolving
business processes. As a result, OSH professionals need both soft and business skills to complement their technical skills and equip them to
influence and drive change at all levels.
This well researched framework breaks down competency into 3 key areas.
Behavioural competence
To deliver influence, OSH professionals must conduct themselves appropriately in the workplace. This section includes competencies for building effective stakeholder relationships, optimising
personal performance, developing exemplary communication skills and an ability to work productively with others.
These are all abilities that underpin the building of successful and productive relationships.
Core competence
This covers the skills, knowledge and behaviours to support and enable good decision making in the workplace. It
includes the competencies necessary to influence in operationally busy organisations and enhance the employability and general effectiveness of the OSH professional. The competencies include strategy, planning, leadership and management.
Technical competence
Our profession must continue to enhance its capability to provide accurate and effective advice on safety and occupational health subjects. This section of the framework includes the collection of OSH technical competencies that underpin advisory
ability. These include complying with legislation and standards, policy, risk management, incident management and the effect of health, safety and welfare on people. It also includes new technical understanding aimed at working more effectively in the modern age, such as sustainability, ethical practice, human capital and community impact.
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