COMPLIANCE MADE EASY
It is a requirement that under the Health & Safety Act that employers monitor and check to ensure that their staff have the skills and experience to perform their work and if they require further training or supervision, that they are given it.
Once these competencies have been set and agreed upon by both the employee and supervisor/trainer, they need to be reviewed regularly. If an employee has an accident with a chainsaw and his competency level was agreed and set at “3 – can work alone” then the company can be sure the employee was skilled and supervised appropriately.
Managing staff for safety
The competencies are extremely useful when transferring staff. If the chainsaw competency was set at level 2 "Needs supervision"€, then the new supervisor would automatically know what skill level the employee is at and will know that they need to be supervised until they are more experienced.