Designing Fall Protection Systems on Elevated Construction Sites

A senior-level treatment of fall protection systems, focused on what changes outcomes.

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

Course Overview

A procedure for fall protection systems that people cannot follow under time pressure is not a control. Safety performance on the occupational health and safety capability degrades quietly during periods when nothing goes wrong. Progress on this area of occupational health and safety is usually lost in the gap between approval and execution. The programme uses small-group work so that each participant's treatment of fall protection systems is examined, not just described. The material serves both public bodies and commercial organisations dealing with this aspect of occupational health and safety. It concentrates on the parts of this part of occupational health and safety that determine outcomes and treats the rest proportionately. Post-incident reviews keep identifying weaknesses in fall protection systems that were visible long before the incident. The outcome is a practitioner who can hold a position on the occupational health and safety discipline and revise it on evidence. The final session converts the week's work on this strand of occupational health and safety into commitments with owners and dates.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Build the safety case or justification supporting fall protection systems.

02

Select and verify the protective equipment required for fall protection systems.

03

Build a concise safety procedure for fall protection systems that colleagues can follow without further explanation.

04

Integrate fall protection systems into the management of change process.

05

Present the case for investment in fall protection systems in terms that a finance function will accept.

06

Address the human and organisational factors that make fall protection systems fail.

07

Agree the first three actions on fall protection systems that will be taken on returning to work.

Who Should Attend

01

Human resources staff handling the people consequences of fall protection systems.

02

Internal auditors verifying controls over fall protection systems.

03

Project and programme managers whose delivery depends on fall protection systems.

04

Emergency response and rescue team leaders covering fall protection systems.

05

Public sector officials applying fall protection systems within a regulated framework.

06

Facility and plant managers accountable for fall protection systems.

Course Modules

01

Fall protection systems: contractors and shared workplaces

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Assessing the hazards in fall protection systems without turning it into paperwork

  • Record what was learned when fall protection systems did not go as planned.
  • Confirm isolation and lockout arrangements for fall protection systems are proven before work starts.
  • Confirm the training cycle sustaining competence in fall protection systems is current.
  • Record who is authorised to work on fall protection systems and when authorisation expires.

Session 2Escalation and decision rights in fall protection systems

  • Investigate the last incident involving fall protection systems to root cause, not to immediate cause.
  • Map the handovers in fall protection systems between functions and secure them.
  • Verify six months later that changes to fall protection systems have held.
  • Anticipate the objections fall protection systems will raise and prepare the answers.
02

Fall protection systems: procedures, permits and practical controls

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Who is competent to work on fall protection systems, and how you know

  • Verify contractor competence and method statements for fall protection systems.
  • Draft the minimum viable safety procedure for fall protection systems.
  • Confirm that contractual obligations around fall protection systems are understood.
  • Remove steps in fall protection systems that add effort without adding assurance.

Session 2What has to be agreed before work on fall protection systems starts

  • Verify permits covering fall protection systems are issued by someone competent to assess the hazard.
  • Assess long-term health exposure created by fall protection systems and arrange surveillance.
  • Set leading indicators for fall protection systems that predict rather than count.
  • Rank the weaknesses in fall protection systems by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
03

Fall protection systems: hazard identification and risk assessment

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The exposure from fall protection systems that shows up years later

  • Set the review interval for fall protection systems and who attends.
  • Apply management of change to any modification affecting fall protection systems.
  • Rehearse the emergency and rescue plan for fall protection systems, do not just publish it.
  • Check that lessons from fall protection systems reached other sites doing similar work.

Session 2Investigating an incident involving fall protection systems without hunting for blame

  • Prepare the evidence pack a regulator would ask for on fall protection systems.
  • Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of fall protection systems current.
  • Test that protective equipment specified for fall protection systems fits and is maintained.
  • Confirm that controls on fall protection systems sit as high up the hierarchy as reasonably practicable.
04

Fall protection systems: occupational health and long-term exposure

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Why a good control on fall protection systems stops being used

  • Audit application of fall protection systems controls at the workface.
  • Review whether fall protection systems is aligned with the objectives of the work site.
  • Build the competence framework that supports fall protection systems.
  • Confirm that reporting on fall protection systems reaches the people who can act.

Session 2The paperwork for fall protection systems that is actually needed

  • Identify the hazards in fall protection systems and rank them by consequence, not by frequency.
  • Name a single owner for each element of fall protection systems.
  • Define the trigger that would require fall protection systems to be redesigned.
  • Check that fall protection systems still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.

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  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
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  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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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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