Building Safe Operating Protocols for Automated Machinery

Move automated machinery operating protocols from general awareness to a repeatable, reviewable practice.

📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

Safety performance on automated machinery operating protocols degrades quietly during periods when nothing goes wrong. A procedure for operating protocols that people cannot follow under time pressure is not a control. The professional literature on this aspect of occupational health and safety converges on a small set of controls that reliably work. It is designed for mixed groups, so that automated machinery operating protocols is examined from more than one functional angle. They leave able to brief senior management on the occupational health and safety discipline in terms that support a decision. The teaching approach is deliberately practical: participants build a safety procedure for operating protocols as they go. The programme takes participants through automated machinery operating protocols end to end, from framing the problem to closing it out. Teams frequently over-invest in documenting operating protocols and under-invest in testing it. Work concludes with a self-assessment of this aspect of occupational health and safety that participants can repeat annually.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Audit the application of controls on automated machinery operating protocols in the field, not on paper.

02

Verify that contractors performing operating protocols meet the same standard as direct employees.

03

Write procedures for automated machinery operating protocols that can be followed under real operating pressure.

04

Address the human and organisational factors that make operating protocols fail.

05

Set a realistic target state for automated machinery operating protocols and a defensible route to it.

06

Assess the current state of operating protocols against a structured set of criteria rather than impressions.

07

Anticipate the objections that automated machinery operating protocols will attract internally and answer them in advance.

Who Should Attend

01

Training and development staff building internal capability in automated machinery operating protocols.

02

Occupational health practitioners monitoring exposure from operating protocols.

03

Internal auditors verifying controls over automated machinery operating protocols.

04

Risk and insurance staff assessing exposure from operating protocols.

05

Internal auditors reviewing how automated machinery operating protocols is designed and operated.

06

Senior managers who sign the safety policy covering operating protocols.

Course Modules

01

Automated machinery operating protocols: hazard identification and risk assessment

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Auditing automated machinery operating protocols in the field rather than in the file

  • Confirm the training cycle sustaining competence in automated machinery operating protocols is current.
  • Test that protective equipment specified for operating protocols fits and is maintained.
  • Close out corrective actions on automated machinery operating protocols with a named owner and date.
  • Verify six months later that changes to operating protocols have held.

Session 2Investigating an incident involving operating protocols without hunting for blame

  • Plan the sequence in which improvements to automated machinery operating protocols will be introduced.
  • Audit application of operating protocols controls at the workface.
  • Confirm isolation and lockout arrangements for automated machinery operating protocols are proven before work starts.
  • Reduce the variation in how operating protocols is carried out between teams.
02

Operating protocols: culture, human factors and why controls fail

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Holding contractors on operating protocols to your own standard

  • Collect evidence on the present handling of automated machinery operating protocols before proposing changes.
  • Verify permits covering operating protocols are issued by someone competent to assess the hazard.
  • Rehearse the briefing on automated machinery operating protocols that would follow an incident.
  • Estimate the resource operating protocols requires to run as designed.

Session 2Why a good control on operating protocols stops being used

  • Identify single points of dependency in automated machinery operating protocols and reduce them.
  • Establish what evidence demonstrates operating protocols is under control.
  • Make the reporting route for hazards in automated machinery operating protocols short and non-punitive.
  • Identify the hazards in operating protocols and rank them by consequence, not by frequency.
03

Operating protocols: occupational health and long-term exposure

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1What has to be agreed before work on operating protocols starts

  • Check the procedure for automated machinery operating protocols against how the work is actually done.
  • Name a single owner for each element of operating protocols.
  • Record who is authorised to work on automated machinery operating protocols and when authorisation expires.
  • Verify contractor competence and method statements for operating protocols.

Session 2Assessing the hazards in automated machinery operating protocols without turning it into paperwork

  • Prepare the evidence pack a regulator would ask for on automated machinery operating protocols.
  • Ask the people doing operating protocols what makes the procedure hard to follow.
  • Record what was learned when automated machinery operating protocols did not go as planned.
  • Confirm that those complying with operating protocols understand why it exists.
04

Operating protocols: protective equipment and its verification

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Getting other functions to support operating protocols

  • Establish the boundary of automated machinery operating protocols and record what sits outside it.
  • Check that lessons from operating protocols reached other sites doing similar work.
  • Remove steps in automated machinery operating protocols that add effort without adding assurance.
  • Set out how exceptions to operating protocols are requested and approved.

Session 2Who answers for operating protocols, and to whom

  • Prepare the summary of automated machinery operating protocols that senior management will read.
  • Define the trigger that would require operating protocols to be redesigned.
  • Set leading indicators for automated machinery operating protocols that predict rather than count.
  • Confirm that controls on operating protocols sit as high up the hierarchy as reasonably practicable.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

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

Gold Package

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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