Modern safety legislation has moved away from a prescriptive form of mass of detailed regulations.
The drive is now towards placing the responsibility for determining safety and health requirements firmly on the shoulders of organisational management.
This is certainly the case in the marine environment where the relatively new
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Merchant Shipping and Fishing Vessels (Health and Safety at Work) Regulations 1997 |
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The Associated Health and Safety at Sea; Code of Practice |
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The International Safety Management (ISM) Code |
all demand the production of effective risk assessment and control procedures.
This Two-day course covers: -
Day One. Theory of Safety, Health and Environmental Risk Assessment.
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Definitions of Hazard, Risk, Incident and
Accident
- Identification of Hazards:
Workplace
Work Activities
- Assessment of Risk:
Likelihood of incident
Severity of Accident
- Hierarchy of Controls
- Documentation and Records
- Monitoring
- Inspection
- Audits.
- Reviews
- Identification of Hazards:
Day Two. A Practical application of the theory of day one
Workplace visit:
- Identification of Workplace
Hazards
- Identification of Work Activity
Hazards
- Identification of Environmental
Hazards
- Assessing the Risks of identified
Hazards
- Determining Controls for
the Assessed Risks
- Completing Documentation and Records
Writing Management Reports.
Participants who produce an acceptable risk assessment and associated report to management recommending controls will receive the "General Risk Assessor's Competency Certificate" issued through the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH). United Kingdom
RISK ASSESSMENT AND REPORT
The objective of this is for participants to apply some of the techniques and principles they have learned in the course. On completion of the project they should have gained some practical experience in risk management and control. They will also be able to structure and present managerial report describing the activities they undertook, their rationale and the conclusions and recommendations they have arrived at.
A typical report will contain:
INTRODUCTION What is to be assessed and why it was selected
METHOD. What was done and how it was done.
CONCLUSIONS. What was discovered. Was it what was expected?
What went well and proved to be difficult.
RECOMMENDATIONS. What should be done to improve risk controls.