Design emergency response and rescue arrangements covering protective equipment maintenance.
Designing Distribution and Maintenance Programmes for Personal Protective Equipment
Practical training in protective equipment maintenance, grounded in real cases and applied to your own operation.
Course Overview
Where protective equipment maintenance depends on the vigilance of one experienced person, it is not yet a system. Regulators judge the practice within occupational health and safety on evidence of application, not on the existence of a document. Ambition around this part of occupational health and safety outruns capacity unless the sequencing is deliberate. Sessions alternate between guided analysis of protective equipment maintenance and supervised application. Field experience suggests that the barrier to better the wider occupational health and safety agenda is rarely technical. It concentrates on the parts of the occupational health and safety capability that determine outcomes and treats the rest proportionately. It is appropriate for those preparing to take on wider responsibility for protective equipment maintenance. Participants develop a defensible line of reasoning for the choices they make about the practice within occupational health and safety. Work concludes with a self-assessment of the wider occupational health and safety agenda that participants can repeat annually.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Assess occupational health exposure arising from protective equipment maintenance and arrange surveillance.
Build a register of the risks attaching to protective equipment maintenance and keep it current.
Design the permit and control regime appropriate to the hazards in protective equipment maintenance.
Recognise early indicators that protective equipment maintenance is drifting away from its intended design.
Set acceptance criteria for protective equipment maintenance before work begins rather than after.
Select and verify the protective equipment required for protective equipment maintenance.
Who Should Attend
Engineering and maintenance staff whose work involves protective equipment maintenance.
Planning staff whose forecasts and budgets are affected by protective equipment maintenance.
Contractor and subcontractor supervisors performing protective equipment maintenance.
Health and safety officers and advisers responsible for protective equipment maintenance.
Quality staff verifying that protective equipment maintenance performs as designed.
Site and operations supervisors applying protective equipment maintenance daily.
Course Modules
Protective equipment maintenance: hazard identification and risk assessment
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Why a good control on protective equipment maintenance stops being used
- Identify the data already collected that bears on protective equipment maintenance.
- Review whether protective equipment maintenance is aligned with the objectives of the work site.
- Record who is authorised to work on protective equipment maintenance and when authorisation expires.
- Check the procedure for protective equipment maintenance against how the work is actually done.
Session 2Comparing protective equipment maintenance with recognised practice
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of protective equipment maintenance current.
- Name a single owner for each element of protective equipment maintenance.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether protective equipment maintenance is improving.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to protective equipment maintenance will be introduced.
Protective equipment maintenance: leading indicators, audit and assurance
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The decisions in protective equipment maintenance that cannot be delegated
- Set out the decisions in protective equipment maintenance that require sign-off and by whom.
- Investigate the last incident involving protective equipment maintenance to root cause, not to immediate cause.
- Apply management of change to any modification affecting protective equipment maintenance.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around protective equipment maintenance are understood.
Session 2Holding contractors on protective equipment maintenance to your own standard
- Verify permits covering protective equipment maintenance are issued by someone competent to assess the hazard.
- Test that protective equipment specified for protective equipment maintenance fits and is maintained.
- Prepare the evidence pack a regulator would ask for on protective equipment maintenance.
- Verify contractor competence and method statements for protective equipment maintenance.
Protective equipment maintenance: competence, authorisation and supervision
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The cost of protective equipment maintenance and how to present it
- Establish what evidence demonstrates protective equipment maintenance is under control.
- Identify the hazards in protective equipment maintenance and rank them by consequence, not by frequency.
- Rank the weaknesses in protective equipment maintenance by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in protective equipment maintenance.
Session 2The permit regime protective equipment maintenance needs, and the one it does not
- Ask the people doing protective equipment maintenance what makes the procedure hard to follow.
- Check that protective equipment maintenance still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Identify single points of dependency in protective equipment maintenance and reduce them.
- Confirm that reporting on protective equipment maintenance reaches the people who can act.
Protective equipment maintenance: reporting, investigation and root cause
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Who is competent to work on protective equipment maintenance, and how you know
- Rehearse the emergency and rescue plan for protective equipment maintenance, do not just publish it.
- Record what was learned when protective equipment maintenance did not go as planned.
- Draft the minimum viable safety procedure for protective equipment maintenance.
- Confirm isolation and lockout arrangements for protective equipment maintenance are proven before work starts.
Session 2Rescue arrangements for protective equipment maintenance that have been rehearsed
- Confirm that controls on protective equipment maintenance sit as high up the hierarchy as reasonably practicable.
- Confirm the training cycle sustaining competence in protective equipment maintenance is current.
- Set leading indicators for protective equipment maintenance that predict rather than count.
- Check that lessons from protective equipment maintenance reached other sites doing similar work.
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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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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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