Design the permit and control regime appropriate to the hazards in workplace infectious disease prevention.
Building Strategies to Prevent Infectious Disease in Workplaces
Move workplace infectious disease prevention from general awareness to a repeatable, reviewable practice.
Course Overview
A procedure for workplace infectious disease prevention that people cannot follow under time pressure is not a control. Safety performance on disease prevention degrades quietly during periods when nothing goes wrong. The programme builds the judgement to know which parts of the occupational health and safety discipline to standardise and which to leave flexible. The programme suits teams tackling workplace infectious disease prevention together as readily as individuals attending alone. The programme takes participants through the practice within occupational health and safety end to end, from framing the problem to closing it out. Discussion is anchored to worked examples of disease prevention rather than to abstract argument. Ambition around workplace infectious disease prevention outruns capacity unless the sequencing is deliberate. Where disease prevention is measured, it improves; where it is only discussed, it drifts. It closes by agreeing the smallest change to this part of occupational health and safety that would make a visible difference.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Integrate disease prevention into the management of change process.
Define the scope and boundaries of workplace infectious disease prevention so that responsibility for it is unambiguous.
Build a concise safety procedure for disease prevention that colleagues can follow without further explanation.
Carry out a structured risk assessment of workplace infectious disease prevention and rank findings by consequence.
Distinguish the parts of disease prevention that must be standardised from those that require judgement.
Set leading indicators for workplace infectious disease prevention rather than relying on injury counts.
Who Should Attend
Training officers building competence in workplace infectious disease prevention.
Consultants and advisers supporting clients on disease prevention.
Contractor and subcontractor supervisors performing workplace infectious disease prevention.
Human resources staff handling the people consequences of disease prevention.
Department heads accountable for the results of workplace infectious disease prevention.
Risk and insurance staff assessing exposure from disease prevention.
Course Modules
Workplace infectious disease prevention: culture, human factors and why controls fail
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Where workplace infectious disease prevention typically breaks, and why
- Check the procedure for workplace infectious disease prevention against how the work is actually done.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether disease prevention is improving.
- Arrange the handover of workplace infectious disease prevention so capability survives staff changes.
- Confirm that controls on disease prevention sit as high up the hierarchy as reasonably practicable.
Session 2Building the method for disease prevention step by step
- Verify six months later that changes to workplace infectious disease prevention have held.
- Verify contractor competence and method statements for disease prevention.
- Identify the hazards in workplace infectious disease prevention and rank them by consequence, not by frequency.
- Rehearse the emergency and rescue plan for disease prevention, do not just publish it.
Disease prevention: emergency response and rescue
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The cost of disease prevention and how to present it
- Check that records of workplace infectious disease prevention answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Close out corrective actions on disease prevention with a named owner and date.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of workplace infectious disease prevention current.
- Reduce the variation in how disease prevention is carried out between teams.
Session 2Assessing the hazards in disease prevention without turning it into paperwork
- Define the trigger that would require workplace infectious disease prevention to be redesigned.
- Set out the decisions in disease prevention that require sign-off and by whom.
- Check that lessons from workplace infectious disease prevention reached other sites doing similar work.
- Confirm isolation and lockout arrangements for disease prevention are proven before work starts.
Disease prevention: leading indicators, audit and assurance
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Writing a procedure for disease prevention people can follow at 3 a.m.
- Ask the people doing workplace infectious disease prevention what makes the procedure hard to follow.
- Record who is authorised to work on disease prevention and when authorisation expires.
- Define acceptance criteria for workplace infectious disease prevention in advance.
- Audit application of disease prevention controls at the workface.
Session 2Auditing workplace infectious disease prevention in the field rather than in the file
- Make the reporting route for hazards in workplace infectious disease prevention short and non-punitive.
- Confirm that those complying with disease prevention understand why it exists.
- Assess long-term health exposure created by workplace infectious disease prevention and arrange surveillance.
- Agree what will be standardised in disease prevention and what will not.
Disease prevention: protective equipment and its verification
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The permit regime disease prevention needs, and the one it does not
- Set leading indicators for workplace infectious disease prevention that predict rather than count.
- Apply management of change to any modification affecting disease prevention.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around workplace infectious disease prevention are understood.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on disease prevention.
Session 2Who is competent to work on disease prevention, and how you know
- Test the procedure for workplace infectious disease prevention against a realistic scenario.
- Rank the weaknesses in disease prevention by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Confirm the training cycle sustaining competence in workplace infectious disease prevention is current.
- Identify where judgement in disease prevention is legitimate and where it is not.
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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
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- 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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