Highfield – Level 3 International Award in Health and Safety for Accommodation Supervisors

About Course

This qualification is aimed at labour camps or staff accommodation supervisors and managers with a direct responsibility for the health and safety management or learners wishing to become accommodation managers/supervisors.
Learners gaining this qualification will know that supervisors and managers have legal and moral obligations to ensure health and safety within the accommodation/camps and that this includes obligations to employees, contractors, visitors and suppliers.
This qualification will help learners gain an understanding of various aspects of health and safety, and how they can regularly assess hazards and implement corrective actions to create comfortable, clean and safe accommodation.

What next?

Individuals achieving this qualification can then progress onto:
• Highfield Level 3 International Award in Accident and Incident Investigation
• Highfield Level 4 International Award in Health and Safety qualification

Assessment Methods

This qualification is assessed by a multiple-choice examination containing 45 questions. The exam must be completed in 90 minutes. Successful learners will have to demonstrate knowledge across the unit content and correctly answer 27 questions or more to achieve a pass, 32 questions to achieve a merit and 36 questions to achieve a distinction.

1. The key infrastrucutre requirments
2. Safe utilities requirments
3. Maintenance of fire safety
4. Electrical safety
5. Food safety
6. Pest and waste management systems
7. Cleaning and disinfection procedures
8. Procedures of control of spread of infection and responsibilites of the supervisors to conduct routine inspection of the premises, to record and report any health and safety hazards.

Course Content

1. Understand the requirements of health and safety in staff accommodation and/or camps

1.1 Explain the duties and responsibilities of management, employees and accommodation supervisors in relation to maintaining health and safety in staff accommodation and/or camps

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1.2 Explain the moral, social and economic reasons for maintaining and promoting good health and safety standards in staff accommodation and/or camps

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Highfield – Level 3 International Award in Health and Safety for Accommodation Supervisors

About Course

What next?

Assessment Methods

What Will You Learn?

Course Content

1. Understand the requirements of health and safety in staff accommodation and/or camps

1.1 Explain the duties and responsibilities of management, employees and accommodation supervisors in relation to maintaining health and safety in staff accommodation and/or camps

1.2 Explain the moral, social and economic reasons for maintaining and promoting good health and safety standards in staff accommodation and/or camps

2. Understand the basic infrastructure and utilities requirements within staff accommodation and/or camps

2.2 Explain the characteristic of safe basic utilities such as: Clean water supply; Electrical system; Cooking gas; Ventilation, lighting and air quality

3. Understand the importance of maintenance of infrastructure and utilities within the staff accommodation and/or camps

3.1 Identify the most important aspects of electrical safety and fire safety

3.2 Describe the procedures for maintaining food safety for different settings (self-cooking, mass-kitchen, catering)

3.3 Identify some basic personal safety and security requirements at the staff accommodation and/or camps

4. Understand the importance of cleaning requirements within the staff accommodation and/or camps

4.1 Define the terms cleaning and disinfection

4.2 Identify the process of implementing procedures and schedule for cleaning, disinfection and waste management

4.3 Explain the importance of integrated pest management

4.4 Know the best cleaning technique to be applied for different areas within the accommodation (rooms, kitchen, grease traps, water tanks, toilet, washrooms, communal areas)

5. Understand how to deal with infectious disease within the staff accommodation and/or camps

5.1 Identify the different types of pathogenic organisms that cause infection with examples of infectious diseases of concern in staff accommodation and labour camps

5.2 Define terms infection, source, carrier, infectious disease, epidemic, pandemic

5.3 Outline the chain of infection

5.4 Outline the standard procedures for infection prevention and control, including isolation procedures

5.5 Describe how to break the chain of infection using standard precautions and procedures

5.6 Outline the controls to prevent the spread of coronavirus and other respiratory infections

6. Understand the importance of risk assessment and requirements of an emergency preparedness and evacuation plan

6.1 Define the terms: Hazards; Risks; Controls; Risk assessment

6.2 Be aware of the important information covered in an emergency action plan

6.3 Know how to deal with a health and safety emergency within the staff accommodation and/or camp

7. Understand the roles and responsibilities of the accommodation supervisor

7.1 Know how to inspect the premises regularly and complete an audit checklist

7.2 Explain the procedures for recording and reporting on risks and health and safety aspects