By the Competent Person?
A Competent Person Is Designated by a Company to Ensure That the Company's Health and Safety Responsibilities Are Being Met. What Do You Mean by Competent...
A competent person is designated by a company to ensure that the company's health and safety responsibilities are being met.
What do you mean by competent person?
The term "Competent Person" is used in many OSHA standards and documents. ... By way of training and/or experience, a competent person is knowledgeable of applicable standards, is capable of identifying workplace hazards relating to the specific operation, and has the authority to correct them.
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Who designated competent person?
A competent person is an employee who is able to recognize hazards associated with a particular task, and has the ability to mitigate those hazards. Many OSHA construction standards require someone onsite – such as a foreman, supervisor or other employee – to be designated as a competent person.
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