Health and Safety at Work

If you are responsible for health and safety in your workplace, this course covers everything you need to know. 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 Outline: 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