Contribute to the Maintenance of a Healthy, Safe and Productive Working Environment
Unit summary
This unit is about monitoring your working environment and making sure it meets requirements for health, safety, security and effective working conditions. You must show that you can achieve this standard of health, safety and security in all areas of your work.
Unit details
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15 Business, Administration and Law
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15.1
Accounting and Finance
Assessment Methodology: Workplace evidence or workbased case study/simulation
You must have knowledge and understanding of:
Health, safety and security at work
1. The importance of health, safety and security in your workplace (LO 22.1) 2. The basic requirements of the health and safety and other legislation and regulations that apply to your workplace (LO 22.1) 3. The person(s) responsible for health, safety and security in your workplace (LO 22.1) 4. The relevant up-to-date information on health, safety and security that applies to your workplace (LO 22.1) 5. The importance of being alert to health, safety and security hazards (LO 22.1) 6. The common health, safety and security hazards that affect people working in an administrative role and how to identify these (LO 22.1) 7. Hazards you can put right yourself and hazards you must report (LO 22.1) 8. The importance of warning others about hazards and how to do so until the hazard is dealt with (LO 22.1) 9. Your organisation’s emergency procedures (LO 22.1) 10. How to follow your organisation’s emergency procedures and your responsibilities in relation to these (LO 22.1) 11. How to recommend improvements to health and safety (LO 22.1) 12. Health and safety records you may have to complete and how to do so (LO 22.1)
Effectiveness and efficiency at work
13. How the conditions under which you work can affect your effectiveness and efficiency and the effectiveness and efficiency of those around you (LO 22.2) 14. How to organise your own work area so that you and others can work efficiently (LO 22.2) 15. Your organisation’s requirements on how you organise your working area (LO 22.2) 16. The importance of organising your work area so that it makes a positive impression on other people and examples of how to do so (LO 22.2) 17. The importance of working in a way that shows respect for other people and examples of how to do this (LO 22.2) 18. Conditions you can put right yourself and conditions you would have to report (LO 22.2) 19. Manufacturer’s instructions and your organisation’s procedures for the equipment you use as part of your job (LO 22.2)
Unit 22 of the AOSG Level 2 and Level 3 in Payroll Administration, which is a tailored version of the Council for Administration’s unit 302
FSSC has formally supported this unit (please see letter of support attached in the qualification need/support section)
| Learning Outcome |
Assessment Criteria |
| 22.1 Monitor and maintain a safe, healthy and secure working environment |
22.1.A Make sure you read, comply with and have up-to-date information on the health, safety and security requirements and procedures for your workplace
22.1.B Make sure that the procedures are being followed and report any that are not to the relevant person
22.1.C Identify and correct any hazards that you can deal with (for example, trailing cables, filing cabinet drawers left open or windows being left unsecured when the premises are left unattended) safely, competently and within the limits of your authority
22.1.D Promptly and accurately report any hazards that you are not allowed to deal with (for example, frayed cables, broken windows or a suspicious stranger on the premises) to the relevant person and warn other people who may be affected
22.1.E Promptly, calmly and efficiently follow your organisation’s procedures for illness
22.1.F Promptly, calmly and efficiently follow your organisation’s emergency procedures for accidents
22.1.G Promptly, calmly and efficiently follow your organisation’s emergency procedures for fires
22.1H Promptly, calmly and efficiently follow your organisation’s emergency procedures for any other reasons to evacuate the premises (for example bomb threats)
22.1.I Promptly, calmly and efficiently follow your organisation’s emergency procedures for other breaches of security
22.1.J Identify and recommend opportunities for improving health, safety and security to the responsible person
22.1.K Complete any health and safety records legibly and accurately (for example accident reports) |
| 22.2 Monitor and maintain an effective and efficientworking environment |
22.2.A Organise the work area you are responsible for, so that you and others can work efficiently (for example, having your most used filing cabinet within easy reach of your desk)
22.2.B Organise the work area you are responsible for, so that it meets your organisation’s requirements and presents a positive image of yourself and your team (for example, respecting your organisation’s guidelines on displaying posters, pictures or photographs)
22.2.C Identify conditions around you that interfere with effective working (for example, bright sunlight, office temperatures too hot or too cold, or the lay-out of the office that may not support efficient working)
22.2.D Put right any conditions that you can deal with safely, competently, within the limits of your authority and with the agreement of other relevant people (for example, adjusting the heating)
22.2.E Promptly and accurately report any other conditions to the relevant person (for example, reporting that the heating or air conditioning is not working)
22.2.F Use and maintain equipment in accordance with manufacturer’s instructions and your organisation’s procedures |