Knowledge Areas

• Common liability exposures and types of insurance coverage
• Prevention through Design concepts
• Risk-assessment techniques and methods for reducing or controlling risk in processes and systems
• The hierarchy of controls
• Resources and techniques for hazard-prevention and control management
• Work planning and controls

Applied Skills

• Analyse and evaluate safety, health and environmental risk
• Apply Prevention through Design concepts
• Apply the hierarchy of controls and evaluate control effectiveness in relation to likelihood and severity
• Determine acceptable levels of risk for identified hazards
• Develop, use and modify a risk matrix
• Select appropriate approaches for assessing risk in processes or systems
• Identify and prioritise safety, health and environmental hazards and risks
• Interpret and apply hazard-prevention and control information
• Review and refine implemented controls to ensure continued effectiveness

Knowledge Areas

• Hazard controls for vibration, noise and temperature extremes
• Controls for bloodborne pathogens and other infectious materials
• Controls for lead, asbestos and hazardous chemical exposures
• Electrical-hazard controls and resources
• Fire prevention, protection and workplace processes that introduce fire risk
• Moulds, allergens and associated reactions
• Environmental, occupational-health and physical-exposure reporting requirements
• Occupational-health programme requirements
• Machinery and equipment controls
• Ergonomic hazards arising from work, body position and physical strain
• Ionising and non-ionising radiation controls
• Slips, trips and falls from different heights and levels
• Confined-space hazards, controls and risk levels
• Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals requirements
• Workplace stressors affecting physical and mental health

Applied Skills

• Apply and audit Globally Harmonized System requirements
• Recognise conditions and acts associated with occupational-health and physical hazards
• Recognise hazardous chemical, fire, electrical, machinery, ergonomic and confined-space risks
• Recognise potential exposures to infectious agents, mould, allergens, lead, asbestos, radiation, noise, vibration and temperature extremes
• Identify conditions that can cause slips, trips and falls
• Use appropriate resources to address, modify or eliminate electrical, fall, temperature, machinery, noise, radiation and vibration hazards

Knowledge Areas

• Basic elements of workers’ injury claims and case-management programmes
• Incident and injury rates used for comparison
• Causal-analysis tools and techniques
• Fundamental elements of emergency-response plans
• Scenarios that activate emergency action plans and procedures
• Techniques used to identify gaps in emergency-response plans
• Components of effective incident and accident management programmes
• Incident-command structure and responsibilities during emergency response

Applied Skills

• Calculate incident and injury rates
• Conduct a vulnerability assessment to identify credible emergency scenarios
• Conduct causal analysis and report findings with recommendations
• Identify gaps in an emergency-response plan

Knowledge Areas

• BCSP Code of Ethics
• Safety, health and environmental leadership strategies and principles
• Conflict-resolution techniques
• Direct and indirect costs and their effects on the organisation and workforce
• Fundamental cost-benefit analysis principles
• Surveys and indicators associated with a generative safety culture
• Methods used to communicate hazards and controls to the workforce
• Principles and approaches for developing a generative safety culture
• Methods for presenting technical and complex safety information to stakeholders and interested parties

Applied Skills

• Apply the BCSP Code of Ethics
• Apply safety, health and environmental leadership strategies
• Apply conflict-resolution techniques
• Communicate strategic activities, risks and performance information to diverse audiences
• Facilitate or lead safety meetings
• Develop a business case for additional budget, resources or organisational support
• Interpret and use leading and lagging indicators to drive continual improvement
• Interpret a cost-benefit analysis
• Write directives that support safety objectives and activities