Skills, Knowledge And Experience
Assessing employee skills, knowledge and experience
This information will help employers who control how construction work is carried out to assess the skills, knowledge and experience of workers.
Occupational Safety and Health Act
requires every employer to have a duty to ensure that his employees have been trained as necessary to ensure that his employees carry out work without risk to the safety and health of themselves and others.
recommends that anyone who appoints designers, contractors and workers to work on a construction project to ensure that the workers appointed have the knowledge to carry out the work in a manner that ensures safety and health.
Basic knowledge of safety and health is important so that every employee can protect their own safety and health and understand the impact of their actions on others.
Basic safety and health knowledge is:
- Can identify hazards at construction sites;
- Knowledge of basic construction safety legislation;
- Know safety arrangements and procedures;
- Know emergency arrangements;
- Can identify damaged conditions that cause increased risk;
- Increased knowledge regarding risk priorities on site and approved control measures;
- Can participate fully and confidently during site consultations;
- Legal knowledge of PPE, reporting and employee obligations; and
- Sufficient knowledge to instruct trainees on safe work systems.
This general knowledge should be the foundation for other, more in-depth safety and health knowledge.
A basic assessment of safety and health knowledge is essential for all workers who work on or regularly visit construction sites such as engineers, architects, surveyors, inspectors and agents for clients.
Examples of General Knowledge and Understanding Assessments regarding General Risks arising from Construction Work are as follows:
Prepared by: Ir. Dr. Mohd Fairuz Ab Rahman, Mohd Fiqri Mohd Hanafi & Mohamad Syamir Monday
