Overview

This 1-day course provides participants with a systematic approach for identifying health and safety hazards and assessing and evaluating the associated risks. This is fundamental to planning effective controls required by ISO 45001.

Who should attend

• Health and Safety System Managers who wish to establish practicable and effective procedures for assessing health and safety risks.
• Individuals who will be required to assess health and safety risks.
• Risk Managers who wish to include health and safety risk within their organisation’s overall strategy for managing risk.
• Auditors of Health and Safety Management Systems who wish to have a clear understanding of good practice for assessing and managing health and safety risks.

Benefits

• Participants will understand and apply sound methods for assessing health and safety risks by area and by activities.
• Sponsor organisations will acquire a core of people able to identify health and safety hazards and contribute towards development of measures that prevent ill health and accidents in the work place.

Key Topics

• Legal and other requirements for managing risk
• ISO 45001 requirements for assessing risk
• Identifying health and safety hazards
• Evaluating health and safety risk
• Practical methods for evaluating health and safety risks and their relative merits
• Strategies for managing health and safety risks
• Planning and implementing controls that reduce risk

Structure

This 1-day course comprises a series of interactive tutorials and exercises. Each participant will receive a course manual and, following successful completion, a certificate.