Why and how you manage health and safety?

 

·      Moral, legal and financial reasons and benefits for managing health and safety

•   Reasons and benefits
•   Overview of responsibilities of employers and workers and legal consequences.

·      Managing health and safety consistently well

• Plan-Do-Check-Act
•   Leadership – committed, promoting a culture that supports health and safety
•   Effective processes (including identification/control of risk, incident investigation)
•   Checking/monitoring performance
•   Communication
•   Consultation/participation of workers
•   Ignoring the trivial and focusing on the important.

·      Auditing

•   What, why and how

Dealing with common workplace hazards

•      General workplace issues – workplace access, housekeeping, lighting, temperature, slips, trips and falls (on same level), welfare, first aid.
•       Violence and aggression
•      Work-related stress
•       Hazardous chemicals and substances
•       Computers
•       Substance abuse
•       Electricity
•      Fire
•       Noise and vibration
•       Radiation
•       Work equipment
•       Work at height
•       Workplace transport
•       Work-related upper limb disorders
•       Manual handling
•      Load-handling equipment

Stopping incidents and ill-health before they happen

·      Inspecting the workplace

•   Using checklists
• Talking to people.

·      Risk assessment theory

•  What ‘hazard’, ‘risk’, ‘risk assessment’ and ‘control measure’ really mean
•   Why we do risk assessment (what it is designed to do)
•   How you do risk assessment (steps to risk assessment)
•   Controlling risks (hierarchy of control)
•   Being sensible and proportionate
•   General workplace risk assessment vs specific (including laptop/computer use, fire, manual handling, hazardous chemicals)

Learning from incidents

•       Why investigating incidents makes sense

• What ‘incident’, ‘accident’ and ‘near miss’ really mean.

·      A simple four-step approach to investigations

•   Gather information
•   Analyze information (5 Whys method)
•   Identify risk control measures
•   Develop and implement the action plan.

·      Workshop