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#1 Posted : 21 December 2000 20:08:00(UTC)
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Posted By Kevin Vinson
Shortly my company is moving towards a competency based pay scheme and will be looking to myself to provide assistance in defining and assessing safety related competencies.

Firstly does anybody know where I could locate any standard generic position descriptions for the posts of Safety Officer, Safety Adviser and Safety Manager.

Secondly I need to locate any 'standard' competency elements which can be mapped to these job titles.

Can anybody help..?

Many Thanks

Kevin
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#2 Posted : 22 December 2000 08:01:00(UTC)
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Posted By Frank Neville Johnson
Kevin

You might try Croners. There CD H&S manager etc. is quite usefull in this respect and defines various levels of competency.

Frank
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#3 Posted : 22 December 2000 09:55:00(UTC)
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Posted By Mark Preston
Have you looked at the stuff produced by the National training organisation for employment?
http://www.empnto.co.uk/
They have developed and published a number of competency frameworks for Occupational Health and Safety - I recommend you check them out
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#4 Posted : 22 December 2000 10:01:00(UTC)
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Posted By Hazel Harvey
Kevin,
Confirming the previous response Employment NTO publish the national standards for Health and Safety Practice. These are at levels3/4 and are used by IOSH as our yardsticks for membership. The exact terms you use do not feature but you could generally consider that level 3 relates to Technician Practitioners (Officers) and level 4 to Advisers and Managers. The current standards relate to the level of risk in the organisation with level 3 being for those either in low risk situations or subordinate in higher risk and level 4 being for those practising in high or complex risk situations, hence my rough division above.
The standards are currently under review and it is likely that the new standards (which are available to view on the EmpNTO web-site)will not have this splitting into risk categories and may reflect Technician/Manager jobs more accurately. The free-standing Health and Safety units,also from EmpNTO may also be useful when you are putting your job descriptions together.
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#5 Posted : 23 December 2000 15:35:00(UTC)
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Posted By Kevin Vinson
Thankyou for all your responces, they have been most helpful.

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year

Kevin
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#6 Posted : 27 December 2000 17:06:00(UTC)
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Posted By Ian Waldram
Just a couple of points to add to previous respondents:
1) empNTO are towards the end of a project to update the OSH competencies - IOSH is closely involved. The new ones don't look very much like the current versions, but cover the same ground, so expect some national-level changes in the next year or so.
2) In my experience, competence models work best when there is recognition that increased competence dosn't just mean 'more of' something, but often some new things, and different ways of relating to others. In a previous position, I used a matrix of 'core management competences', each of which has four associated levels, i.e. Developing/ Assisting, Contributing Independently, Leading/Coaching, Directing/Integrating. We defined the management competencies needed by the whole organisation, including Health/Safety/ Environment and could then 'synthesise' every position using these. The HSE management competencies were in a 4x4 matrix, and I presented a paper at the 1998 Annual Conference giving details - they can be used both for OSH professionals (many of whom should be in the 'Leading' or Directing' groups) as well as all other line and staff positions. Of course HSE professionals ALSO need technical competencies, which are more like the ones in NVQ's - but again a various different levels, rather than the maximum of 2 in empNTO.
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