Safety for Safety Reps

Aims

The course is designed for those required assist with the management of good health and safety, in compliance with both their organisation's policy and best practice in health & safety.

To ensure that safety requirements are appreciated by people appointed as safety representatives and enable them to monitor their own departmental systems for safety, assisting with the introduction of new controls or changes as appropriate to make the department work more safely.

On successful completion of the course delegates should be able to:

• Explain ‘working safely'
• Identify the data and techniques required to produce an accurate record of an incident and demonstrate the procedure for an accident investigation, recognising the human factors involved
• Describe statutory requirements for reporting and procedures for checking for non-reporting
• Describe methods of basic trend and epidemiological analysis for reactive monitoring techniques
• Define hazards and risks and describe the legal requirements for risk assessment
• Identify workplace precaution hierarchies and the criteria for types of workplace precautions and controls
• Prepare and use active monitoring check-lists and implement schedules for active monitoring, recording results and analysing records