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Manage personal safety in the workplace
Level
3
Credits
2
Purpose
This unit standard is for those at specific risk from violence, conflict, abuse,
armed robbery, and other threats to personal safety, at work in a specified
workplace and in other environments, and going to and from work.
People credited with this unit standard are able to:
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recognise, identify, and evaluate risks to personal safety;
–
implement specified personal risk management procedures and
practices;
–
minimise the effects of threats to personal safety; and
–
report information on personal risk situations.
Subfield
Security
Domain
Non Specialist Security Functions
Status
Registered
Status date
31 October 1996
Date version published
23 April 2008
Planned review date
31 December 2009
Entry information
Open.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and
industry.
Standard setting body (SSB)
ElectroTechnology Industry Training Organisation
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0003
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
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This unit standard is intended primarily for people at risk at work from internal and
external threats to personal safety in circumstances in which the more
comprehensive Unit 6534, Maintain a secure work environment is not appropriate
and for whom no equivalent industry-specific unit standard exists. It particularly
applies to those holding, handling, and collecting cash and cheques, and to those
working in places where drugs, valuables, or other attractive items are held.
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Risks to personal safety covered by this unit standard include but are not limited to
threatened, potential, or actual physical and oral attacks by others, and other
dangerous or life-threatening situations resulting from the deliberate acts of others,
including armed robbery.
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References
Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992;
Crimes Act 1961;
Summary Offences Act 1981;
Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act 1988;
New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990;
Children, Young Persons, and their Families Act 1989;
Employment Relations Act 2000;
Evidence Act 2006.
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Definitions
Standing orders – standing orders and instructions on security and safety issued by
an employer;
Site procedure – enterprise specific procedures and work practices applicable to a
site, facility, installation, or process;
Standard industry practice – standard, practices, and procedures described in a
nationally authorised code of practice, training programme, procedural manual,
operating guideline, standard operating procedure, or other enterprise specific
standard approved by the national standards body;
Specified procedures and practices – procedures, practices, and techniques
described in standing orders, site procedure, standard operating procedure, or
standard industry practice approved by the national standards body that relate to the
management of the range of risks specified in these special notes and are identified
as probable or possible occurrences in the specified workplace and its environment;
Information on personal risk situations – significant information, of use in
investigation and as evidence, in damage control, and in victim recovery processes; it
includes but is not limited to personal descriptions, descriptions of events, weapons,
suspects, enhancement of personal safety, and the and conversations leading to the
identification and prosecution of recovery and rehabilitation of victims.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Recognise, identify, and evaluate risks to personal safety.
Performance criteria
1.1
Risks specific to the workplace are described and evaluated in accordance with
specified criteria.
Range
criteria include but are not limited to – cause, nature,
characteristics, indications, probability, direct and consequential
effects.
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1.2
Circumstances and activities that present particular risks to personal safety are
described and evaluated in accordance with specified procedures and practices.
Range
1.3
circumstances and activities include but are not limited to – those
related to or derived from workplace functions, location,
operational characteristics and events, site procedure.
Profiles, behaviour patterns, and other recognisable characteristics of those
typically presenting specific or increased risk to security and safety in the
workplace are recognised and described in accordance with specified
procedures and practices.
Element 2
Implement specified personal risk-management procedures and practices.
Performance criteria
2.1
Risk situations requiring the application of specified procedures and practices
are recognised.
2.2
Procedures and practices implemented to manage risk to personal safety are
appropriate for the situation.
2.3
Specified procedures and practices are implemented in accordance with the
standard from which they are derived.
2.4
Personal preventive measures consistent with threat indications are applied in
accordance with specified procedures and practices.
Element 3
Minimise the effects of threats to personal safety.
Performance criteria
3.1
Responses to direct demands, threats, and intimidation are consistent with the
need to reduce risk, stress, and psychological trauma are demonstrated in
accordance with specified procedures and practices.
3.2
Specified personal risk-management procedures and practices are employed in
accordance with standing orders, site procedure, and standard industry
practice.
3.3
Behaviours that reduce or do not exacerbate risk and stress are demonstrated
in accordance with specified procedures and practices.
3.4
Non-verbal communication (body language) consistent with the need to reduce
risk is demonstrated in accordance with specified procedures and practices.
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Element 4
Report information on personal risk situations.
Performance criteria
4.1
Significant information is identified and memorised in accordance with specified
procedures and practices.
4.2
Information is recorded and reported in accordance with specified procedures
and practices.
Please note
Providers must be accredited by NZQA, or an inter-institutional body with delegated
authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from assessment against
unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by NZQA before they can register
credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards
must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this
standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations
wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for
tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact the ElectroTechnology Industry Training Organisation
reviewcomments@etito.co.nz if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit
standard.
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