This is a very popular, comprehensive, practical and experiential programme,
covering:
* Assessing risks: Defines and demystifies risk and risk assessment. Risk
assessments and a simple scoring system are introduced, and participants
carry out assessments.
* Controlling risks: Cutting risks down, concentrating on the best techniques
to control key risks and how to choose the right methods.
* Understanding your responsibilities: The legal framework; health & safety
management systems.
* Identifying hazards: The main issues any organisation has to deal with:
entrances and exits, work traffic, fire, chemicals, electricity, physical and
verbal abuse, bullying, stress, noise,
* housekeeping and the working environment, slips, trips and falls, working at
height, computers and manual handling.
* Investigating accidents and incidents: Why accidents should be investigated,
why things go wrong and how to carry out an investigation when they do.
* Measuring performance: How checking performance can help to improve health &
safety. How to develop basic performance indicators. Auditing and proactive
and reactive measuring.
* Protecting the environment: Introduction to waste and pollution. How
organisations and individual managers can get involved in cutting down their
environmental impacts.
THE PROGRAMME ENABLES PARTICIPANTS TO:
* Assess and control risks and hazards
* Understand their own responsibilities for safety and health
* Investigate incidents
* Measure their own performance
* Reflect on good practice and plan how to ensure the safety of the staff for
whom they are responsible