One of the fundamental ingredients of effective safety management is hazard identification, risk assessment and preventative action. The need to identify hazards, assess risks, and select, implement and monitor preventive action is an essential foundation of safety management. Regulation 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 requires all employers and self employed persons to assess the risk to workers and any others who may be affected by their work or business.
This course has been designed to provide tuition for those who have been given the responsibility to manage health and safety in their place of work. This one day course is an ideal opportunity to obtain a clear understanding of the formal processes of undertaking risk assessment presented by a former inspector with many years experience of enforcing health and safety legislation.
Aims & Objectives:
This course has been designed to be run at the employer's premises using a proactive approach to learning. The delegates will undertake a mock audit to obtain raw data in teams. The data collected will be used throughout the course to develop the technique of assessing hazards and associated risk and examining ways to obtain risk reduction.
The course is intended for persons who have been given the responsibility to manage health and safety in the work place. It also provides an opportunity for safety representatives and members of safety committees to obtain an understanding of the processes for managing risk in the workplace.
Course Outline:
Day One
General Introduction and Formation of Teams.
- Risk Assessment and European Directives
- HSWA in relation to other regulations.
- Management of Health and Safety Regulations.
- Process of life cycle audit of risk.
- COSHH process for managing risk.
- Management requirements.
- General company system for managing H&S.
- Advantages of external audit.
- Reasons for audit.
Team Inspections (one workshop or suitable workplace per team to rotate.
Using flip charts each team will attempt to analyse data and reach meaningful conclusion.
Day Two
Each team will be given set exercises to revaluate the data collected as the course progresses as follows.
- What are hazards?
- What is risk?
- Process for risk assessment
- Classification of work activity
- Quantifying information gathered
- Hazard identification
- Associating hazards with the legal requirement
- Hazard prompt list
- Determining risk
- Severity of harm
- Classification of harmful
- Tolerability of risk
- Evaluation of risk
- Risk level estimation
- Review of action plan
- Hazard analysis techniques
At the end the session each team will be given an opportunity to review the conclusion reached which will then be followed by a general discussion.
Intended For:
Any person who undertakes or has management or supervisory responsibility for health and safety or is likely to undertake audit of the management of health and safety.
