Managing the Risk Assessment and Risk Control Processes

Understand the importance of a robust health and safety management programme and how to deliver it.

Course Content

Programme

• Reasons for effective risk management
• The role of line managers in a risk management structure
• The business cost–benefit case
• Field experience – what problems/successes are other people having?

Case studies
Update on recent legal developments
– litigation and enforcement

Proactive risk-driven health and safety management
> organising task-based assessment programmes
> dealing with legal requirements and non-legal issues
> defining and delivering risk assessment and risk management
competences
> defining and organising the programme
> record-keeping requirements and implications
> risk control tracking and risk monitoring needs
> audit trails
> issues in risk assessment and risk management quality assurance

Managing safely, not managing safety
> risk management as one part of overall safety management
> using risk management programmes to set departmental
health and safety targets as a way of changing the organisational
safety culture
> monitoring local and central risk management performance
> learning from experience – reactive risk management structure

Tutors
Bernie Catterall and Carl Williams