A four-day workshop
This is a very popular, comprehensive, practical and experiential programme.
learning objectives
- 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
Expert trainer
David has more than twenty years’ experience in environmental, health and safety management and training. Formerly Head of Environmental Protection Training for the Ministry of Defence and later Environment Health and Safety Manager with one of the UK’s largest cement manufacturing companies and H&S Adviser with Visa, he set up his own consultancy practice in 2006, providing support, advice and training on health & safety and environmental management to help organisations to reduce their environmental impact and improve their health and safety performance.
Session outline
1. Assessing risks:
- Defines and demystifies risk and risk assessment.
- Risk assessments and a simple scoring system are introduced, and participants carry out assessments.
2. Controlling risks
- Cutting risks down, concentrating on the best techniques to control key risks and how to choose the right methods.
3. Understanding your responsibilities
- The legal framework; health & safety management systems.
4. 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.
5. Investigating accidents and incidents
- Why accidents should be investigated, why things go wrong and how to carry out an investigation when they do.
6. Measuring performance
- How checking performance can help to improve health & safety.
- How to develop basic performance indicators.
- Auditing and proactive and reactive measuring.
7. Protecting the environment
- Introduction to waste and pollution.
- How organisations and individual managers can get involved in cutting down their environmental impacts.
