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WORKPLACE RISK ASSESSMENT COURSE
A risk assessment is an important step in protecting your workers and your business. You are not expected to eliminate all risk, but you are required to protect people as far as is ‘reasonably practicable’. This course will tell you how to achieve that with a minimum of fuss.
Tutor
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The presenter was educated at Leeds and Oxford Universities. He studied chemistry, and was awarded a doctorate for his research. During his 25-year career in the chemical industry with Ciba, he became Loss Prevention Manager and studied part-time at Loughborough University for a diploma in the Management of Occupational Safety and Health. He is now providing safety-related services to businesses worldwide. He is an Associate Tutor with. For 8 years he was an elected member of the management council of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. (IOSH) |
Course Contents
| Day 1 |
- Hazard and Risk
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Introduction to the concepts used in safety
management, including ‘reasonably practicable’
- Risk Management
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The techniques applied and relevance to safety
management systems
- Risk Assessment
- The ‘5 Steps’ approach. What should be assessed, by whom, how and when?
- Syndicate Work
- Participants will undertake a simple risk assessment within the premises where the course is taking place
- Quantification of Risk
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Evaluation of individual and societal risk. What is
tolerable?
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| Day 2 |
- Application of the Risk Assessment Technique to
Specific Hazards
- e.g. fire, chemicals, manual handling, etc
- Syndicate Work
- Participants will undertake risk assessments of specific hazards within the premises where the course is taking place
- Control Measures to Reduce Risk
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Permits
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Safety Management Systems
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Chemical Safety
- Hazardous Area Classification.
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| Day 3 |
- Specific Techniques used in Hazard Identification and the Quantification of Risk
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Event trees; fault tree analysis; hazard and
operability studies, etc
- Syndicate Work
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Different exercises will be chosen to suit
participants’ requirements
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Emergency Procedures to Mitigate Risk
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Summary and Conclusion.
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