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Accreditation
Overview

When you’re faced with the complex task of tackling sun safety in the workplace - we’ve got your back! From comprehensive guidance, risk assessment and policy, to employee training, instruction and reinforcement, our resources are there to help you, every step of the way.

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GAINING YOUR SUN SAFE WORKPLACE ACCREDITATION

The Sun Safe Workplaces programme provides employers with the training, tools, resources and guidance needed to develop and implement a comprehensive approach to workplace sun safety. Through a clear, step-by-step process, organisations can educate and engage their workforce, assess occupational UV risk, implement practical sun protection measures, monitor progress and demonstrate their ongoing commitment to creating a sun safer workplace. Achieving Sun Safe Workplace Accreditation recognises that commitment and the practical steps taken towards creating a sun safer working environment.

STEP 1: DOWNLOAD AND READ
YOUR EMPLOYERS GUIDE

Our Sun Safe Workplaces Employers Guide has been developed as an essential supportive resource to assist you in gaining your accreditation. It’s your go-to-guide that can be referred to for information and advice to help you understand the relationship between solar UVR and skin cancer, enabling you to confidently address every aspect of UV exposure in the workplace. A comprehensive sun protection programme is described, including various sun protection control measures presented as per the hierarchy of occupational hazard controls. Tips for success are included, along with the various tools and resources provided by the Sun Safe Workplaces Accreditation programme.

  • Download and share with workplace Health & Safety Representatives to gain support and understanding from key stakeholders
  • Saves valuable time by bringing all essential information together into a no-jargon document
  • Ensures all essential criteria and recommendations are backed up with rationale to support every aspect of your accreditation
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STEP 2: CONDUCT / REVIEW YOUR
SOLAR UVR RISK ASSESSMENT

Our on-line Solar UVR Risk Assessment creation tool has been developed to help you to identify the level of risk for your outdoor workers based on environmental, work system and hazardous factors. The assessment includes a review of sun protection control measures which enables you to clarify which control measures you already have in place and identify where areas of improvement can be made to lower risk as per the hierarchy of control measures: engineering controls, administrative controls and personal protective clothing and equipment. The objective, over time is to work towards practicing each of the control measures applicable to your organisation.

  • Create and manage multiple assessments as required via your admin panel
  • Download pre-populated versions for necessary consultation prior to submission
  • Download and print completed assessments
  • Saves valuable time
  • Ensures all essential criteria and recommendations have been considered
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STEP 3: CREATE/REVIEW YOUR
SUN PROTECTION POLICY

Our comprehensive on-line Sun Protection Policy creation tool to enables you to easily tailor your own policy, or review your current policy to suit the needs and practicalities of your own organisation. This includes: Rationale, aims, your organisations commitment, what management is implementing, compliance and what is expected of employees.

Your Sun Protection Policy must be reviewed annually alongside your risk assessment and review of sun protection control measures to ensure that it constantly reflects your business developments which forms part of maintaining your annual Sun Safe Workplaces accreditation.

  • Create and manage multiple policies as required via your admin panel
  • Download pre-populated versions for necessary consultation prior to submission
  • Download and print completed assessments
  • Saves valuable time
  • Ensures all essential criteria and recommendations have been considered
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STEP 4: PREPARE YOUR
AWARENESS RESOURCES

Get prepared to make a statement after you have delivered your employee training! Whether creating a display for your face-to-face training sessions, safety briefings and/or creating on-site awareness - our range of supportive resources, available to download and/or purchase below will create visual impact and provide the essential reinforcement of key messaging to employees following their training.

  • Solar UVR and Skin Cancer A6 booklet - an outdoor worker’s guide to prevention and early detection
  • The Skcin app - providing users with all the tools, tips and tricks they need to take charge of their skin health and surveillance
  • Protect and Check A6 key messaging cards with ABCDE mole rulers
  • Safety Briefing film, slides & information sheets
  • Site signage - various sizes, formats & materials
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STEP 5: DELIVER TRAINING
TO YOUR EMPLOYEES

Our employee online training programme has been developed to provide employees with essential training that covers the following key aspects of skin cancer education:

  • Understanding solar UVR and our skin
  • Skin cancer causes and risk factors
  • How to reduce the risk of skin cancer
  • How to perform skin examinations
  • How to detect signs of skin cancer
  • How to take action with concerns

This one hour training session is divided into a series of short videos, multiple choice questions and interactive learning to engage, educate, empower and equip your employees.

  • Training can be delivered in face-to-face, group sessions or undertaken remotely and completed on any desktop or mobile device.
  • Learners also receive a personalised risk assessment with rationale and advice based on the answers provided, in addition to a certificate of completion and supportive digital resources.
  • Admins can see an overview of Employees training status and access statistical data relating to many aspects of the training, it’s effectiveness and evidence of completion.
GO TO TRAINING OVERVIEW

STEP 6: APPLY FOR YOUR SUN SAFE
WORKPLACES ACCREDITATION

Once each of the steps have been completed, organisations can apply for their accreditation. The application process consists of submitting an online application form that provides Skcin with evidence of completion and feedback relating to each of the steps of the accreditation process. Once reviewed by the team to ensure completion and review feedback the accreditation will be granted.

The accreditation should be renewed annually by reviewing your risk assessment(s), control measures and Sun Protection Policy, in addition to reinforcing education among existing employees and the training of new employees.

Accredited workplaces receive:

  • An accreditation certificate and logo.
  • Website and social media recognition.
  • Press release and promotional assets.

Accredited workplaces can:

  • Provide evidence of fulfilling legal obligations.
  • Generate positive PR internally and externally.
  • Be seen as positive role models in combatting a national public health concern.
  • Be seen as industry leaders in ensuring the health and safety of employees.
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SUN SAFE WORKPLACES EMPLOYEE TRAINING PROGRAMME

Upon registration, workplaces will be provided with access to their admin panel from which they can effectively manage all aspects of employee training with visual statistical data to provide essential overviews on many aspects of the training outcomes and that all-important evidence of completion.

The training can be delivered in face-to-face, group sessions using a large communal screen to play the educational films, combined with individual desktop or mobile devices connected to the internet for each employee to complete the remaining interactive elements. Alternatively, the training can be undertaken by workers remotely in their own time (this is essential for educating new employees and those unable to attend group sessions).

The training programme consists of 9 key sections comprising a series of short videos, multiple choice questions and interactive learning to engage, educate, empower and equip your employees - as follows:

1) PRE-TRAINING EMPLOYEE
QUESTIONNAIRE

Our pre-training questionnaire comprises a series of multiple choice questions that aim to ascertain individual workers current level of knowledge, attitude and habits towards sun safety, skin cancer prevention and skin checking.

2) SKIN CANCER CAUSES
AND RISK FACTORS

The first in a series of three graphically animated educational films that educates workers on skin cancer statistics, solar UV radiation, how it causes skin cancer and why outdoor workers are at greater risk of developing the disease.

3) PERSONAL SKIN CANCER
RISK ASSESSMENT

This section requires workers to complete a multiple choice questionnaire that highlights further factors that can place individuals at greater risk, providing them with rationale along the way and a personalised assessment on completion.

4) HOW TO REDUCE YOUR RISK
OF SKIN CANCER

This second film educates workers on checking the solar UV Index forecast and the ways in which they can reduce their risk of skin cancer, detailing Skcin’s Five S approach to sun safety and five star sun protection.

5) PUT YOUR PREVENTION
KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST

This multiple choice questionnaire is designed to reinforce key messaging by testing workers on the key preventative measures - providing employers with evidence of workers knowledge in relation to this essential area of educational training.

6) HOW TO CHECK YOUR SKIN
FOR SIGNS OF SKIN CANCER

The final film educates workers on the importance of performing regular skin examinations, how to detect the early warning signs of the various types of skin cancer and how to take appropriate action with concerns.

7) THE I SPY MELANOMA
5 MINUTE CHALLENGE

This interactive learning tool educates workers on the ABCDE of melanoma screening tool which is widely recognised and used to detect the early warning signs of the most common form of melanoma - visible in around 70% of all cases.

8) POST-TRAINING
EMPLOYEE QUESTIONNAIRE

Our post training questionnaire revisits many of the pre-training questions, providing employers with directly comparable evidence that highlights workers’ learning outcomes, changes in attitude and intentions following their training.

9) SIGNPOSTING TO SUPPORTIVE
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Finally, workers are prompted to download their certificate of completion and additional resources to help reinforce key messaging and provide further support in developing their knowledge and taking charge of their skin health and surveillance.

Click on the above play button to watch short clips from each of the three animated films produced for the training.

SUN SAFE WORKPLACES SUPPORTIVE AWARENESS RESOURCES

Get prepared to make a statement! Whether creating a display for your face-to-face training sessions, safety briefings and/or creating on-site awareness - our range of professional, supportive, educational awareness resources, available to download and/or purchase via your admin panel will create visual impact and provide essential and valuable reinforcement of key messaging regarding the prevention and early detection of skin cancer to employees following their training.

SOLAR UVR AND SKIN CANCER
AN OUTDOOR WORKERS GUIDE

Our handy A6, pocket sized, 20 page booklet reinforces every aspect of our employee training in bite-sized educational chunks providing an excellent printed and/or digital reinforcement guide post employee training.

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THE SKCIN EDUCATIONAL AND
SELF-MANAGEMENT MOBILE APP

The Skcin mobile app provides users with instant access to all the tools, tips and tricks they need to learn more and confidently take charge of their skin health and surveillance. Click here to learn more.

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PROTECT AND CHECK CARDS WITH ABCDE MOLE RULERS

Our handy A6, pocket sized, quick fact cards reinforce key prevention and early detection tips and can be purchased with accompanying, durable mole rulers with punched out measuring holes, highlighting the ABCDE of melanoma rule.

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STRUT BOARDS, SITE SAFETY SIGNS AND POP UP BANNERS

Drawing visual attention to key campaign messaging, our ‘Protect and Check’ A3 Strut boards, pop-up banners and site signage (available to print in various sizes) will provide instant impact providing consistent visual reinforcement.

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SAFETY BRIEFING 90 SECOND FILM AND TOOL BOX TALK

Our quick, 90 second safety briefing is provided in various formats to assist site managers in reinforcing the five key sun protection measures employees should use in combination to reduce their risk of skin cancer.

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ACCREDITED SUN SAFE WORKPLACES AWARENESS RESOURCES

Once accredited, Sun Safe Workplaces are provided with a range of resources to celebrate and promote their achievement including: an accreditation certificate and logo, sample press release and promotional social assets.

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