The core programme is designed to revisit key management responsibilities from the Managing Safely course and provide updates on relevant changes in good practice guidance, legislation and standards.
Course Programme
- Introducing managing safely
– Briefly revisit the moral, legal and financial reasons for managing health and safety and how this is an integral part of the manager’s role - Assessing risks
– Definitions of hazard, hazardous event, risk, likelihood and consequence
– Factors to consider when carry out a risk assessment
– Illustration of a simple risk rating system - Controlling risks
– Revisit risk control selection and the best methods to choose, including consideration of ‘reasonably practicable’ - Understanding your responsibilities
– Recap on managers’ health and safety responsibilities
– Briefly review the demands of the law and update significant relevant changes in legislation
– Update any significant changes in health and safety management system good practice and standards - Investigating accidents and incidents
– Definitions of accident, incident and near miss
– Main causes of accidents: immediate, underlying and root
– Accident investigation process - Measuring performance
– Importance of measuring performance for improving health and safety
– Use of key performance indicators and the limitations of reactive and pro-active measuring
– Purpose and setting up of audits (internal and external)
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