​1. **Understand the roles and responsibilities for health, safety and welfare in the workplace:**
   - Outline employers’ and employees’ duties relating to health, safety and welfare at work
   - Outline the consequences for non-compliance with health and safety legislation

   - Outline the requirements for training and competence in the workplace

   - Outline the ways in which health and safety information can be communicated

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2. **Understand how risk assessments contribute to health and safety:**
   - Define the terms ‘hazard’ and ‘risk’

   - Outline the process for carrying out a risk assessment

   - Describe how risk assessment can be used to reduce accidents and ill health

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3. **Understand how to identify and control the risks from common workplace hazards:**
   - Describe the hazards that may be found in a range of workplaces
   - Describe how hazards can cause harm or damage to people, work processes, the workplace and the environment

   - Describe the principle of the risk control hierarchy

   - List examples of risk controls for common workplace hazards

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4. **Know the procedures for responding to accidents and incidents in the workplace:**
   - State the common causes of workplace accidents and ill health
   - Identify the actions that might need to be taken following an incident in the workplace

   - List the arrangements that should be in place in a workplace for emergencies and first aid

   - Outline why it is important to record all incidents, accidents and ill health​

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