Risk Assessment Training Course

This course is designed for those individuals who are required to carry out risk assessments for their organisations or departments. The course will help you: - Understand what risk assessments achieve - Comply with health and safety legislation - Know how to manage and control risk - Categorise risk based on their estimated frequency and severity - Understand how to use inspections and task analyses to identify hazards - Use solid assessments to monitor the adequacy of current controls - Lessen the chance of health and safety-based prosecutions being brought against your organisation.

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

The purpose and objectives of risk assessments

• Health and safety law: an introduction
• The fit between risk assessments and the legislative framework
• The fundamentals of best practice risk assessments: Delegates will be taken through each of the five steps of the risk assessment structure, from identifying hazards to keeping proper written records during and after the assessment
• The various control measures available to you
• Display Screen Equipment (DSE) risk assessments
• Manual Handling risk assessments
• A review of learning outcomes As well as all the legislation and theory you need to know, this course will be based on practical case studies throughout. You will constantly be encouraged to relate what you learn back to your own workplace.

Course Fee = £525

Scheduled course dates

May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 - - 28 - 1