COURSE DETAILS

Course Details

Course Aims

• To equip participants with the knowledge and skills to conduct a basic safety inspection and risk assessment as required by the Management of Health & Safety at Work regulations 1999.
• To assist with the need to have competent people to assist with the management of health & safety in the workplace.
• To reduce risk of injury to staff.
• To avoid prosecution and litigation.

This highly practical course has been designed with the core aim of creating a confident and motivated person to conduct basic workplace risk assessments.

Course Introduction

This course has been designed to ensure the participants are both confident and competent to conduct basic workplace safety inspections and risk assessments. A highly participative day adopting learner centred methods, participants will learn that risk assessment is not a burden but just an extension of good management and is something practiced by everyone each day. The outcome will be that your workplace risks are reduced, to both employees and others. Also that you will be mitigating your risk to claims and litigation.

The course centres on learning the necessary legal underpinning knowledge then when and how to use both safety inspection and risk assessment pro-formas. You will also learn when you can, and cannot use generic risk assessments.

This course stimulates an ideal climate for change to attitudes, practices and motivation which is essential to improving performance in the work place.

Optional additional modules are available to this course – please ask for more details

What delegates will learn

• How the law applies in respect of workplace risk assessments
• How to identify the underlying causes of accidents at work
• Defining hazard and risk
• How to conduct a safety inspection and what to look for
• The theory of conducting risk assessment
• How to conduct and record an assessment
• Requirements of risk assessments for pregnant women and young workers
• When and how to obtain specialist advice

Course Objectives:

At the end of the course participants will be able to:

• Appreciate the requirements of the Health & Safety etc At Work Act 1974 and the Management of Health & Safety at Work Regs 1999 and how they relate to risk assessments
• By means of practical exercises conduct and record a safety inspection and workplace risk assessment

Assessment process

This will be overall and continuous against the course objectives.

Certification / Accreditation:

Solutions Certificate

Special requirements of course participants:

None

Course Trainers:

The training team are all specialists in health & safety. All have adult teaching/ training qualifications and huge experience of managing safety in the workplace.