Outcome
Each participant will be able to:
- Explain the importance of high standards of health and safety at work and their role in maintaining the standards
- Identify workplace health and safety legislation applicable to their work activities
- Outline the main factors affecting health and safety at work
- Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of risk assessment and the ‘5 step’ methodology
- Clearly understand how to carry out a basic risk assessment and/or know how to interpret general assessments provided by your organisation
- Extend general assessments by personally carrying out dynamic evaluations of work activities that are unique to the particular workplace and adding further risk-control measures or seeking advice from managers
Course content:
- Humanitarian, Economic, Legal reasons why health and safety is important
- Current health and safety statistics
- The Health & Safety at Work Act 1974etc – Duties of employers, employees, self employees and co-operation/co-ordination with contractors
- Regulations supporting the HASWA 1974 Act
- Reactive and Proactive safety management
- The Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999
- Workplace policies and procedures
- Internal and external sources of information
- Suitable and sufficient assessment of Risk and the ‘5 steps’ methodology
- Environmental, Occupational, Human and Organisational Factors
- Occupational Health Factors
- General and Dynamic Assessments. Specific assessments for high risk activities
- Effective control measures
- Practical risk assessment activity
Duration: 3 hours
