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Occupational Risk Responsibilities

Components of Occupational Risk Responsibilities

Components of Occupational Risk Responsibilities

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Summary description of core responsibilities for each level

Common Questions

Key Points

To ensure the BBC meets its legal duties in such areas as health and safety, fire and environment, it is essential that people working for, or on behalf of, the BBC understand and carry out their responsibilities.

To help you to understand your responsibilities they have been broken down into three component parts which are:

Core responsibilities
Non-core responsibilities
Specialist responsibilities

Each member of staff has a personal responsibilities portfolio in my Risks containing responsibilities from some, or all, of these components.

Core Responsibilities

Core responsibilities cascade through the Corporation from the Director General to each individual. They are allocated based on an employee's level in the BBC structure. There are seven levels in the cascade, providing a framework to allocate responsibilities through the management chain. This will help ensure continuity throughout the organisation and make the presentation to managers clear, simple and related to their level of managerial activity.

The same set of core responsibilities is common to all managers at the same level in the BBC structure, regardless of their divisional focus.

Divisional senior managers with a lead for health and safety within their Division have mapped the roles in their management structure into the appropriate level, depending on the way they manage their business and prefer to allocate responsibilities. The level information is stored in SAP, the BBC finance system.

A diagram showing the principle for the cascade is show in below. Use the text links to see more details of the responsibilities:

Core responsibility cascade:
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Seven levels generic description
DIRECTOR GENERAL	EXECUTIVE BOARD & CONTROLLERS NATIONS & REGIONS*	DIVISIONAL BOARDS AND NATIONS & REGIONS BOARD*	DEPARTMENT HEADS	MANAGERS	TEAM LEADERS	STAFF

* Nations & Regions Controllers and Boards only have responsibility for their geographic areas.

Non-core responsibilities

Non-core responsibilities have been derived from the requirement to safely manage specific areas of risk relevant to the type of business focus and work activity undertaken. They apply to employees managing these activities, regardless of their level in the BBC structure.

To make the non-core responsibilities easier view and allocate they are sub-divided into four topic groups:

Managing People
Managing Places
Managing Materials and
Equipment
Managing Environment

Specialist Responsibilities

Specialist responsibilities are derived from the additional specialist activities that some employees undertake, such as nominated responsible persons (NRP's), fire wardens and first aiders. They are allocated to employees by their managers following discussion about the nature and extent of the additional responsibilities, required competencies and potential training requirements.

The list of specialist responsibilities covered by myRisks is expected to increase over time. It will eventually incorporate nominated responsible persons (NRP's) for a number of facilities management and building engineering risks and topics, such as fire, CDM and water systems. It will also cover local or departmental roles, in addition to those of fire warden and first aider.