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Competence in Major Hazard Industries
1. Competence in the Major
Hazard Industries
Andrew Mulligan HM Inspector of Health and Safety
2. What we will cover:
•What is competence?
•What can go wrong?
•What the law says?
•How can competence be
demonstrated?
•How can competence be managed?
3. What is competence?
Definition(s)
• The ability to perform the activities within an occupation or function
to the standard expected in employment. (HSL)
• “Competence” means the ability to undertake responsibilities and
perform activities to a relevant standard, as necessary to ensure
process safety and prevent major accidents. Competence is a
combination of knowledge, skills and experience and requires a
willingness and reliability that work activities will be undertaken in
accordance with agreed standards, rules and procedures (HID,
HSE).
• “Competence is the ability for every director, manager and worker to
recognise the risks in operational activities and then apply the right
measures to control and manage those risks”. (Judith Hackitt HSE
Chair).
4. What can go wrong?
• Esso Gas Plant Explosion, Longford,
Australia, 1998.
• Flixborough, 1974.
5.
6. What the Law says.
• Control of Major Accident Hazards
Regulations 1999 (COMAH), Regulation 4.
• Health and Safety at Work etc Act
1974(HSW), Sections 2, 3 and 7.
• Management of Health and Safety at Work
Regulations 1999 (MHSW), Regulations 5
and 7....
AND
7. And…
• MHSW Regulation 10 Information to
employees.
• Regulation 12 Information to contractors
• Regulation 13 Capabilities and training
• Regulation 14 Employee duties
• Provision and Use of Work Equipment
Regulations 1998, Regulations 9 and 10
Information Instruction and Training.
• And others…
9. Competence Assurance
6 KEY PRINCIPLES:
1. Demonstrating leadership and commitment
2. Identifying business critical activities pertaining to
the control of major accident hazards or major risks
in your sector
3. Setting procedures and standards
4. Compliance against your standards
5. Taking actions to improve competence
6. Commitment to continuous improvement
10. Competency what is needed?
• Focus on Major Accident Prevention.
• Competency for all roles.
• Standards
• Formal training NVQ/SVQ’s
• Procedures
• ‘On the job’ training.
11. Competency what is needed?
• Resourcing
• Foreseeable operational modes
• Competency includes experience
• Proportionality
• Validation and evaluation
• Trainers and assessors
• Audit and review
12. Competence Management.
Establish the requirements of the
CMS
1 Establish a policy of CMS
2 Identify functions, tasks, and activities
Design the CMS
3 Select or develop standards
4 Decide how to meet the standards
5 Develop procedures and methods
6 Establish requirements for training,
development and assessment
Implement the CMS
7 Train, develop, assess and
maintain managers’
competencies
8 Select and recruit staff
9 Train, develop and assess staff
10 Control activities undertaken
Maintaining competence
11 Monitor and reassess staff
performance
12 Manage sub-standard performance
13 Keep records
14 Update the competence of
individuals
Audit & review of the
CMS
15 Verify and audit the CMS
16 Review and feed back
13. Methods of documenting
competency.
Skills Matrix that documents:
• Description of task
• Who is responsible for arranging work
• Who is responsible for completing work
• Related Procedure to follow
• Related standards and legislation e.g. BS,
EEMUA…
• General Training Required
• Functional Skills and Experience Required.
14. Business Benefits
• Workforce planning
• Staff development and continuous
professional development.
• Expertise Locator.
• Knowledge Management
• Feeding into evaluation of training and
learning.
15. Summary
• Establish baseline competencies for roles.
• Assess tasks to establish what is safety critical.
• Develop standards and procedures for safety
critical tasks.
• Monitor and assess personnel against the
above.
• Continue to develop and improve the system.
• ALWAYS CONSIDER IF THE PROCEDURE
FITS e.g. site risks, change in personnel, good
industry practice.
16. Any questions?
Useful Links:
Competence in health and safety.
http://www.hse.gov.uk/competence/index.
htm
Inspection of competence at COMAH sites
http://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/guidance/insp
ection-competence-management-
systems.pdf
