Fundamentals of Occupational Health & Safety
What Will I Benefit?
The course will provide you with knowledge and skills that can help you understand and apply the risk assessment method, identify the hazards of work, prioritize the risks and control measures, and learn about the proactive monitoring methods, such as inspection, auditing and reporting of accidents, and comprehend the investigation of accidents as a post-monitoring method to prevent or reduce the recurrence of accidents.
Course Objectives
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At the end of this course, the participants should be able to:
- Identify work-related hazards
- Perform work – related risks analysis
- Identify appropriate control measures
- Develop accident investigation skills with the objective of preventing recurring accidents.
- Understand and apply root cause analysis (RCA)
Target Audience
All employees working in the field of occupational safety and health, but it can also benefit anyone who works in areas related to the occupational health and safety system and maintaining a healthy and risk-free work environment.
Course Outline
Topics
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Preventive safety concepts and terms and accident investigation
- Concepts and terms
- Types of occupational accidents
- The importance of recording and analyzing minor and imminent incidents
- The causes of occupational accidents
- Occupational Safety and Health as a science
- Occupational Health and Safety System
- The importance of setting a policy for the occupational health and safety system
- The importance of assessing and controlling risks
- Stages of occupational risk assessment
- Hazard identification stage
- Risk analysis stage
- Control and risk reduction stage
- Electrical hazards
- Chemical hazards
- Manual handling risks
- Fall risk prevention
- Protective requirements for movable ladders
- Protective requirements for escalators or transporters
- High altitude fall prevention requirements
- General requirements
- Types of accident investigation:
- Why investigate occupational accidents?
- Expected benefits from investigating occupational accidents?
- 5 important skills for each investigator
- Requirements for preparedness before an accident investigation
- Determine the level of investigation
- Initial investigation stage
- The main investigation or follow-up stage
- Sequence of accident investigation procedures
- Steps to investigate accidents
- What happens after an accident investigation
Target Competencies
- Judgement & Decision Making
- Organizational Health & Safety.
- Workplace Safety
- Improving Employees Welfare
- Customer Satisfaction
- Employees Retention
- Organizational Reputation
Course Methodology
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This training course will be carried out through the use of best practices and the right combination of engaging and purposeful tools such as:
- Practical, relevant case studies
- Workshops and group activities
- Related role plays
- Experiential learning
- Brain storming
- Stimulating mental activities
- Engaging team competitions
- Suitable training Videos
- Presentations
- Self–assessments
- Learning with Simulations and Games
5 Days
Course Dates & Locations
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