Working Safely
Working Safely is a one-day course for staff from any sector with no supervisory or managerial responsibility. It provides a grounding in the essentials of health and safety – everyone at work should have an understanding of why they must ‘work safely’ and this course offers exactly that. Working Safely introduces a completely new approach to health and safety training and offers all the basics in a high impact interactive package.
Benefits to you and your organisation
- Identify the common causes of injury and ill health associated with their workplace and work activities.
- Undertake and assist with the production of risk assessments within own work area.
- Assist others in performing work place risk assessments.
- Identify people in organisation, whose work exposes them, to risk.
- Monitor health and safety performance in the workplace.
- Improve health and safety management in the workplace.
- Provide an overview of ‘best practice’ health and safety management principles.
Course content
- Working safely - Defining safe working, hazard and risk, Hazard identification techniques, Basic qualitative risk assessment, Selecting or
seeking advice on workplace precautions, Assisting managers to prepare risk assessments.
- Common hazards - The nature of the risks arising from common workplace hazards, How these hazards can cause harm, The control measures available to minimise risk, An overview of the relevant legislation.
- Hazards – Fire, Manual handling, Electricity, Display Screen Equipment, Chemicals and substances, Work equipment, Movement of people, Poor
housekeeping, Noise, Vehicles.
- Improving the organisations safety performance - Requirements for a health and safety policy, the role of ‘control’ in effective safety
management. Co-operation at all levels, Communication, Competence, How accident and incident reporting contributes to learning
from what has gone wrong, Techniques of active monitoring, Methods of helping mana gers with active monitoring
Who should attend
Any key staff who need a good foundation in modern risk based health
and safety management principles.
Duration
1 Day
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