Build the safety case or justification supporting industrial emergency response plans.
Building Comprehensive Response Plans for Major Industrial Emergencies
An applied course in industrial emergency response plans built around the decisions practitioners actually face.
Course Overview
Regulators judge industrial emergency response plans on evidence of application, not on the existence of a document. Safety performance on response plans degrades quietly during periods when nothing goes wrong. Each session closes with a decision the participant must justify about this part of occupational health and safety in their own setting. Post-incident reviews keep identifying weaknesses in industrial emergency response plans that were visible long before the incident. The content is relevant to those who own this area of occupational health and safety and to those who are held accountable for its results. Participants finish able to explain response plans to a non-specialist audience without losing precision. It concentrates on the parts of industrial emergency response plans that determine outcomes and treats the rest proportionately. Buying a tool rarely fixes response plans; the underlying capability has to be built internally first. Participants finish with a short, specific brief on the wider occupational health and safety agenda ready to put in front of a decision maker.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Close out corrective actions on response plans rather than leaving them open.
Structure records of industrial emergency response plans so that they answer the questions an auditor will actually ask.
Carry out a structured risk assessment of response plans and rank findings by consequence.
Assign clear ownership for each element of industrial emergency response plans across the functions involved.
Design emergency response and rescue arrangements covering response plans.
Align industrial emergency response plans with the wider objectives of the work site rather than optimising it in isolation.
Who Should Attend
Those responsible for briefing external stakeholders on industrial emergency response plans.
Health and safety officers and advisers responsible for response plans.
Business partners who must understand industrial emergency response plans well enough to challenge it.
Senior managers who sign the safety policy covering response plans.
Facility and plant managers accountable for industrial emergency response plans.
Site and operations supervisors applying response plans daily.
Course Modules
Industrial emergency response plans: protective equipment and its verification
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Holding contractors on industrial emergency response plans to your own standard
- Agree the smallest change to industrial emergency response plans that would be visibly useful.
- Set leading indicators for response plans that predict rather than count.
- Verify contractor competence and method statements for industrial emergency response plans.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on response plans.
Session 2Where response plans typically breaks, and why
- Set out how exceptions to industrial emergency response plans are requested and approved.
- Test that protective equipment specified for response plans fits and is maintained.
- Identify where judgement in industrial emergency response plans is legitimate and where it is not.
- Rehearse the emergency and rescue plan for response plans, do not just publish it.
Response plans: culture, human factors and why controls fail
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Making near-miss reporting on response plans safe to do
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for industrial emergency response plans.
- Make the reporting route for hazards in response plans short and non-punitive.
- Record what was learned when industrial emergency response plans did not go as planned.
- Investigate the last incident involving response plans to root cause, not to immediate cause.
Session 2Rescue arrangements for response plans that have been rehearsed
- Identify single points of dependency in industrial emergency response plans and reduce them.
- Check that lessons from response plans reached other sites doing similar work.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about industrial emergency response plans.
- Establish the boundary of response plans and record what sits outside it.
Response plans: emergency response and rescue
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Auditing response plans in the field rather than in the file
- Benchmark the organisation's industrial emergency response plans against comparable operations.
- Audit application of response plans controls at the workface.
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in industrial emergency response plans.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when response plans underperforms.
Session 2Who is competent to work on industrial emergency response plans, and how you know
- Record who is authorised to work on industrial emergency response plans and when authorisation expires.
- Confirm the training cycle sustaining competence in response plans is current.
- Anticipate the objections industrial emergency response plans will raise and prepare the answers.
- Check the procedure for response plans against how the work is actually done.
Response plans: reporting, investigation and root cause
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Making response plans work when resources are constrained
- Confirm that controls on industrial emergency response plans sit as high up the hierarchy as reasonably practicable.
- Name a single owner for each element of response plans.
- Apply management of change to any modification affecting industrial emergency response plans.
- Close out corrective actions on response plans with a named owner and date.
Session 2What has to be agreed before work on response plans starts
- Verify permits covering industrial emergency response plans are issued by someone competent to assess the hazard.
- Check that response plans still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Estimate the resource industrial emergency response plans requires to run as designed.
- Ask the people doing response plans what makes the procedure hard to follow.
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Silver Package
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- 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
Gold Package
At least 3 people
- 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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