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Knowledge Element: Relevant health and safety

Definition of Knowledge Element:

Know the Health and Safety regulations that apply to the work and also know how to assess a situation for Health and Safety

A very brief summary of the Knowledge:

In addition to the regulations regarding working in clients premises, including any special regulations regarding the clients business, electrical safety regulations, working at height and those affecting building alterations, it is important to be aware of the surroundings. Many regulations are straightforward if the situation that will be created by the work is thought through in advance.

A summary of expert opinion:

The knowledge named 'Relevant health and safety' is considered to be absolutely critical.
In addition, the knowledge is thought to be quite difficult to replace, it is mostly learned by study, and Between 7% and 30% of Group are Experts.
It is also knowledge mostly used generally, and generally stable knowledge.
See Parameter table below for more detail.

Risk:

This knowledge element has a risk value of 4.46, whilst the average risk for the whole knowledge structure is 4.862. Consult the RISK page for more details.

Knowledge linked by learning dependency:

Postrequisite knowledge implies that Relevant health and safety must be understood before for a person can gain a full understanding of the knowledge listed in the top row of the Linked Knowledge table.

Relevant health and safety has no prerequisite knowledge items and is therefore known as a leaf node. A leaf node is knowledge that has not been investigated further when the map was constructed.

Parameters assigned for Relevant health and safety.

Parameter Details for: Relevant health and safety
Identifier Name Value Clarifier Weight Study Mean
P1
Importance
9.0
absolutely critical
1.0
6.34
P2
Recovery
4.0
quite difficult to replace
1.0
3.38
P3
Study-Exp
2.0
mostly learned by study
1.0
3.46
P4
Known By
2.0
Between 7% and 30% of Group are Experts
-1.0
2.80
P6
Specialised
1.0
knowledge mostly used generally
1.0
5.05
P7
Stability
8.0
generally stable knowledge
-0.7
6.41

People Involved with Relevant health and safety:

PersonExpertCapableResponsible
M A Smith
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Yes
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A A Pendragon
Yes
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Computed Similarity

The most similar nodes to Relevant health and safety are Access and search fault log and Direct shipment and Completing service request and Implement service evaluation scheme and How to use Comico supplied products and Verify resources and Order processing.

The most dissimilar node to Relevant health and safety is Service Evaluation.

Computer generated Options for Action:

Options for Action are computer generated ideas for the development of a particular knowledge area that an analyst or manager may wish to consider. The options generated for Relevant health and safety are listed below.

Option Class is :- Preserving Knowledge
This option is :- The formal learning, documentation and integration of lessons during and on completion of work
This briefly involves :- Conduct a session to carry out a formal review of issues concerning the knowledge in question. The knowledge may be applied in several projects and lessons may be learned from any of them so the people invited to the review may have diverse backgrounds. Use the formal lessons learned approach but concentrate on the knowledge item rather than on a specific project.