Unit 4 - Principles Of Administration Flashcards
📝📝Legal requirements relating to the management of office facilities
AC1.1
Legislation
Statutory duties of employers and employees relating to health, safety and welfare
Primary legislation
Health and safety at work act 1974 (HASAWA)
“Six Pack” regulations relating to HASAWA
- Management of Health and Safety at work Regulations 1999
- Manual Handling Operations Regulation 1992
- Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992
- Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992
Other regulations
- Electricity at Work regulation 1989
- Electrical equipment (safety) regulations 1994
- Working time regulations 1998
- Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH, 2002)
- Equality Act 2010
- Reporting of Injuries Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013
Management of Office Facilities
- Interpretation of legal requirements identified in legislation
- Implementation of policies to meet legal requirements
- Establishing office procedures to meet legal requirements
- Reporting procedures
- Key personnel responsible for requirements for health and safety (health and safety officer, fire wardens)
- Ensuring a safe working environment
- Employee responsibilities to work safely
- Risk assessment
- Staff training
- Welfare facilities
Risk Assessments
- Purposes: protection of employees while at work, protection of public, protection of business’ resources, identifying sources of risk
- Problems bought about by legislation change
- Accessibility requirements
- Conducting a risk assessment
- Proposing remedial action
- Implementing changes
- Notifying others of change
📝📝Describe the typical services provided by an office facility
AC1.2
Definition of services provided by an office facility
Agreed organisational procedures that support management
Services
- Maintain diaries
- Receive and send messages
- Deal with correspondence
- Make and receive telephone calls
- Organise meetings and events
- Receive visitors
- Take minutes
- Monitor stationary
- Order new stock
- Maintain good customer service
- Work in a team and support colleagues
- Deputise for manager as appropriate
📝📝How to establish office management procedures
AC1.3
Communications
- Telephone systems: external and internal
- Electronic communication systems: shared diaries, organising meetings, email, websites, intranet, information databases
Staffing
ICT and communication systems support
Resources
-Office equipment:
•printers
•photocopiers
•computers
-Stationary
Management procedures
- Communication systems
- Setting staff responsibilities to meet corporate policies: external and internal customer service
- Reporting problems
- Risk assessments
- Following instructions
- Training on systems
- Health and safety responsibilities
- Managing stationary
- Storage of materials for office equipment
- Following security and confidentiality procedures
- Diary and meetings management electronic systems
📝📝How to manage office resources
AC1.4
Resources
- Office equipment
- Stationary
- Staffing
How to… Office equipment
- Assess what is needed
- Cost/ budget
- Research suppliers
- Order/install
- Workload dependency
- Regular maintenance and electrical checks
- Train staff on correct use
- Safety and security
- ICT support staff
How to order… Stationary
- Record of suppliers
- Assess what is needed
- Cost/ budget
How to order… Staffing
- Workload dependency
- Meeting deadlines
- Full time or part time or specific contract timescales
- Recruitment procedures
- Job descriptions/specifications
- Liason with human resources department dependent on size of organisation
- Induction training
- Integration into team
- Absence
- Illness
- Annual leave
Techniques to monitor and manage work flows
AC1.5
Planning and managing work flows
Business-wide techniques
- Organisational/strategic plans
- Resource planning (staff and equipment)
- Monitoring availability of resources
- Cost/budget analysis
- Scheduling activities to meet business objectives
Planning and managing work flows
Department/ team techniques
- Departmental plans
- Setting SMART team objectives (specific, measurable,achievable, realistic, time-bound)
- Negotiating realistic targets and setting timescales
- Scheduling activities writhing departmental/ project timescales
- Prioritising work
- Scoping work
Planning and managing work flows
Individual techniques
- Understanding the aims and objectives of task(s)/project
- Allocating tasks
- Using skills and attributes of individual team members
- Negotiating realistic individual targets
- Setting SMART individual action plans -Awareness of own responsibilities
Monitoring work flows
Motivating team members
- Achieving objectives and working together as a team
- Reporting progress systems
- Meeting interim deadlines
- Meeting budget requirements
- Meeting quality objectives
- Analysing and evaluating progress
- Recording progress made (using spread sheets, GANTT charts)
Monitoring work flows
Dealing with problems
- Not meeting deadlines
- Changes in scope of activities
- Insufficient budget or changes in costs scoped
- Member of team removed from activity
- Regular team meetings to discuss progress and any issues
📝📝Typical support and welfare facilities for office workers
AC1.6
Human resources department
- Recruitment/promotional vacancies
- Job descriptions and specifications
- Workplace culture
- Employee/ employer relationships
- Be approachable
- Fostering open and candid communication
- Mediate in any staff issues
- Encourage training opportunities
- Performance management
- Setting dress code
- Equality and diversity legislation
Operations and facilities
- Managing operational services
- Heating
- Lighting
- Access
- Security
- Cleaning
- Catering
- Routine maintenance
- Non-routine maintenance
- Parking
- IT support
Welfare
- Heathy, safe and secure workplace environment
- Maintain a clean and hygienic workplace
- Regular risk assessments
- Toilets and washing/drying facilities
- Showers and changing rooms
- Restaurant, drinks machines or facilities for making hot drinks, drinking water
- First aid supplies
- Resident or part time medical support
- Crèche
- Secure access to workplace
- Secure and safe reception facilities
- Visitor badges
- Outside facilities for smoking
📓📓The legal obligations of the employer for health and safety in the work place
AC2.1
Employer’s legal obligations
Legislation
-Meet the obligations of the health and safety legislation
•maintain safe equipment
•safe use
•handling
•storage and transport of articles and substances (COSHH legislation)
•risk assessment
•first aid
Employer’s legal obligations
Legal processes, documents and notices
-Health and safety policy document, including
•management of health and safety
•responsibility of individuals
•commitment to health and safety
-Displaying health and safety law poster
-Complying with external health and safety inspection
•Fire service
•health and safety executive
Employer’s legal obligations
Health and safety information
-How to identify and assess risks
-Provide training
•assessing risks
•using specific equipment and materials
•keeping self and others safe
- Provide adequate protective clothing
- Facilitate eye checks
Employer’s legal obligations
Maintain a safe workplace
- Conduct regular risk assessment
- Address any risks identified
- Safe access to emergency exits
- Safe use of equipment in the workplace regular testing of electrical equipment
-Regular computer risk assessment
•position of monitor
•height of chair
•position of arms
- Fire drills
- Testing for extinguishers
Employer’s legal obligations
Health and safety staff
- Overall responsibility
- Employee representatives
- Reporting hazards
- Dangerous occurrences
-Fire wardens
•to support fire drills
•give health and safety advice
- First aiders
- Security staff
📓📓Individual’s responsibilities for health and safety in the workplace
AC2.2
Employee responsibilities
Safe working practices
- Take reasonable care of own health and safety
- Alert to effect of own acts on others
- Follow manufacturers’ instruction manuals
- Wear protective clothing provided
- Follow procedures when accidents occur
- Maintain personal hygiene
- Behave in a safe manner
- Store equipment and materials without causing a hazard to self or others
- Use correct lifting techniques