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Health & Safety - including Dust Control Developing competence


Steve Parfitt, technical manager at Mentor Training, looks at how training in the extractive industry has come on leaps and bounds


In August 2011 the MPA (Mineral Products Association) released their document, ‘Safer by Competence’ to help members understand their responsibilities, and to ensure all their staff are carrying out their duties to the safest, most efficient standard, within all their subsidiaries; even if they fall into another industry sector. MPA have defined ‘competence’ as: “The ability to apply knowledge, understanding, practical and thinking skills, to achieve effective performance to the standards required in employment. This involves solving problems and being sufficiently flexible to meet changing demands.” They recommend that ‘competence’ is proven via an NVQ, SVQ or QCF. Training standards, certification and value for money has never been discussed more since card schemes and proving competence came to the fore following the introduction of the Quarries Regulations 1999. Professor Lofstedt stated in his report, released November 2011, that "the industry’s current understanding of ‘competence’ may warrant extension to develop an ‘industry-specific’ definition and broadening to encompass both situational awareness and the sustaining of appropriate behaviours”. It also suggested that industry should consider establishing a single “Construction Industry Card Registration Authority” as an independent agency. As the UK’s leading provider of training and associated services for all types of material handling equipment and workplace transport Mentor Training have always sought to apply all relevant guidance and incorporate best practice within their training courses. Wherever appropriate, acts and regulations such as the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974,


Author: Steve Parfitt


Provision and use of Work Equipment 1998, Management of Health and Safety at Work Act 1999, Personal Protection Equipment at Work Regulations 1992, Control of Substances Hazardous to Health 1999 and Quarries Regulations 1999, are used to underpin training.


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