Health And Safety At Work Training Course

This course is for anyone who has responsibility for health and safety in the workplace should attend this course. You will learn how to carry out your own risk assessments and add value to your organisation by improving safety and assuring legal compliance. The course works through plenty of interesting practical exercises to demonstrate how to create a safe place of work.

Course length = 1 day(s) ~ covering:-

The law

• The implied duty for risk assessment since 1974
• The management of health & safety at work 1999
• The manual handling operations regulations 1992
• The D.S.E. Regulations 1992
• Employer & employee duties
• European directives and the 6 core regulations
• Competent persons
• Statute and civil law

Managing safety

• Safety mind-set and commitment
• Safety culture
• Safe systems, processes and procedures and people
• Method statements (their use and design)
• Safety policy
• Sources of health and safety law
• Employers' duties at common law health and safety

Accident prevention techniques and safety monitoring techniques

• Principles of accident prevention
• Risk assessment
• Safe systems at work
• Competent persons
• Accident investigation
• Accident reporting procedures
• Safety monitoring techniques
• Design of health and safety policy
• The competition and enterprises act

Course Fee = £525

Scheduled course dates

May 2010 June 2010 July 2010 August 2010 September 2010 October 2010 November 2010 December 2010 13 21 23 27 29 - 5 7