Handle the trade-offs in biological and chemical hazard assessment between speed, cost and assurance explicitly rather than implicitly.
Assessing Biological and Chemical Hazards at Work
A concise, decision-focused programme covering biological and chemical hazard assessment end to end.
📍 Tripoli🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Regulators judge biological and chemical hazard assessment on evidence of application, not on the existence of a document. A procedure for hazard assessment that people cannot follow under time pressure is not a control. Exercises escalate in difficulty, ending with the ambiguous situations that make the occupational health and safety capability hard in practice. The material serves both public bodies and commercial organisations dealing with biological and chemical hazard assessment. The course leaves participants able to diagnose weaknesses in the practice within occupational health and safety before they become incidents. Teams frequently over-invest in documenting hazard assessment and under-invest in testing it. Organisations that document biological and chemical hazard assessment properly resolve disputes about it far more quickly. The programme is built to be used, and every section of hazard assessment it covers ends in something applicable. Participants finish with a short, specific brief on this aspect of occupational health and safety ready to put in front of a decision maker.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Translate policy on hazard assessment into procedures that hold up under day-to-day pressure.
Agree the first three actions on biological and chemical hazard assessment that will be taken on returning to work.
Address the human and organisational factors that make hazard assessment fail.
Assess occupational health exposure arising from biological and chemical hazard assessment and arrange surveillance.
Select and verify the protective equipment required for hazard assessment.
Build the safety case or justification supporting biological and chemical hazard assessment.
Who Should Attend
Consultants and advisers supporting clients on biological and chemical hazard assessment.
Health and safety officers and advisers responsible for hazard assessment.
Senior managers who sign the safety policy covering biological and chemical hazard assessment.
Facility and plant managers accountable for hazard assessment.
Training officers building competence in biological and chemical hazard assessment.
Internal auditors reviewing how hazard assessment is designed and operated.
Course Modules
Biological and chemical hazard assessment: emergency response and rescue
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Moving biological and chemical hazard assessment from approval to execution
- Set out how exceptions to biological and chemical hazard assessment are requested and approved.
- Assess long-term health exposure created by hazard assessment and arrange surveillance.
- Confirm isolation and lockout arrangements for biological and chemical hazard assessment are proven before work starts.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates hazard assessment is under control.
Session 2Making near-miss reporting on hazard assessment safe to do
- Close out corrective actions on biological and chemical hazard assessment with a named owner and date.
- Ask the people doing hazard assessment what makes the procedure hard to follow.
- Apply management of change to any modification affecting biological and chemical hazard assessment.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in hazard assessment.
Hazard assessment: contractors and shared workplaces
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Keeping hazard assessment alive after the initial push
- Identify where judgement in biological and chemical hazard assessment is legitimate and where it is not.
- Identify the hazards in hazard assessment and rank them by consequence, not by frequency.
- Audit application of biological and chemical hazard assessment controls at the workface.
- Anticipate the objections hazard assessment will raise and prepare the answers.
Session 2Investigating an incident involving hazard assessment without hunting for blame
- Record who is authorised to work on biological and chemical hazard assessment and when authorisation expires.
- Compare the cost of hazard assessment with the cost of its absence.
- Collect evidence on the present handling of biological and chemical hazard assessment before proposing changes.
- Benchmark the organisation's hazard assessment against comparable operations.
Hazard assessment: protective equipment and its verification
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Why a good control on hazard assessment stops being used
- Remove steps in biological and chemical hazard assessment that add effort without adding assurance.
- Set escalation thresholds for hazard assessment that work out of hours.
- Rehearse the emergency and rescue plan for biological and chemical hazard assessment, do not just publish it.
- Confirm that reporting on hazard assessment reaches the people who can act.
Session 2Making biological and chemical hazard assessment work when resources are constrained
- Make the reporting route for hazards in biological and chemical hazard assessment short and non-punitive.
- Test that protective equipment specified for hazard assessment fits and is maintained.
- Check the procedure for biological and chemical hazard assessment against how the work is actually done.
- Rank the weaknesses in hazard assessment by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
Hazard assessment: leading indicators, audit and assurance
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Checking that protective equipment for hazard assessment actually protects
- Confirm that controls on biological and chemical hazard assessment sit as high up the hierarchy as reasonably practicable.
- Set leading indicators for hazard assessment that predict rather than count.
- Investigate the last incident involving biological and chemical hazard assessment to root cause, not to immediate cause.
- Set the review interval for hazard assessment and who attends.
Session 2The permit regime hazard assessment needs, and the one it does not
- Verify contractor competence and method statements for biological and chemical hazard assessment.
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in hazard assessment.
- Define the trigger that would require biological and chemical hazard assessment to be redesigned.
- Verify six months later that changes to hazard assessment have held.
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USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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