Test the organisation's response to mechanical machine guarding under conditions that are less than ideal.
Designing Mechanical Guarding Around Industrial Machinery
A practical programme in mechanical machine guarding for professionals who are accountable for results, not just awareness.
📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Where mechanical machine guarding depends on the vigilance of one experienced person, it is not yet a system. A procedure for the practice within occupational health and safety that people cannot follow under time pressure is not a control. Practitioner evidence points the same way: this part of occupational health and safety improves fastest where responsibility for it is named and owned. The level assumes working familiarity with the work site but no prior formal training in mechanical machine guarding. It treats the wider occupational health and safety agenda as an operating discipline and equips participants to run it as one. Ambition around the occupational health and safety capability outruns capacity unless the sequencing is deliberate. Participants take away a working set of documents supporting mechanical machine guarding, ready to be adapted internally. Exercises escalate in difficulty, ending with the ambiguous situations that make this part of occupational health and safety hard in practice. The final session converts the week's work on this aspect of occupational health and safety into commitments with owners and dates.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Build competence and authorisation requirements for anyone working on mechanical machine guarding.
Verify that contractors performing mechanical machine guarding meet the same standard as direct employees.
Apply a repeatable review cycle to mechanical machine guarding and act on what it produces.
Design emergency response and rescue arrangements covering mechanical machine guarding.
Prepare a short, evidence-based briefing on mechanical machine guarding for senior management.
Prepare the evidence a regulator would expect to see on mechanical machine guarding.
Who Should Attend
Senior managers who sign the safety policy covering mechanical machine guarding.
Risk and insurance staff assessing exposure from mechanical machine guarding.
Those responsible for briefing external stakeholders on mechanical machine guarding.
Internal auditors verifying controls over mechanical machine guarding.
Compliance and governance staff whose remit includes mechanical machine guarding.
Site and operations supervisors applying mechanical machine guarding daily.
Course Modules
Mechanical machine guarding: emergency response and rescue
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The cost of mechanical machine guarding and how to present it
- Verify six months later that changes to mechanical machine guarding have held.
- Identify where judgement in mechanical machine guarding is legitimate and where it is not.
- Apply management of change to any modification affecting mechanical machine guarding.
- Agree the smallest change to mechanical machine guarding that would be visibly useful.
Session 2Keeping mechanical machine guarding alive after the initial push
- Identify the data already collected that bears on mechanical machine guarding.
- Confirm that controls on mechanical machine guarding sit as high up the hierarchy as reasonably practicable.
- Ask the people doing mechanical machine guarding what makes the procedure hard to follow.
- Verify contractor competence and method statements for mechanical machine guarding.
Mechanical machine guarding: culture, human factors and why controls fail
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Getting other functions to support mechanical machine guarding
- Verify permits covering mechanical machine guarding are issued by someone competent to assess the hazard.
- Arrange the handover of mechanical machine guarding so capability survives staff changes.
- Estimate the resource mechanical machine guarding requires to run as designed.
- Establish the boundary of mechanical machine guarding and record what sits outside it.
Session 2Auditing mechanical machine guarding in the field rather than in the file
- Check the procedure for mechanical machine guarding against how the work is actually done.
- Name a single owner for each element of mechanical machine guarding.
- Reduce the variation in how mechanical machine guarding is carried out between teams.
- Draft the minimum viable safety procedure for mechanical machine guarding.
Mechanical machine guarding: reporting, investigation and root cause
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The exposure from mechanical machine guarding that shows up years later
- Rehearse the emergency and rescue plan for mechanical machine guarding, do not just publish it.
- Identify the hazards in mechanical machine guarding and rank them by consequence, not by frequency.
- Confirm the training cycle sustaining competence in mechanical machine guarding is current.
- Record who is authorised to work on mechanical machine guarding and when authorisation expires.
Session 2Holding contractors on mechanical machine guarding to your own standard
- Anticipate the objections mechanical machine guarding will raise and prepare the answers.
- Prepare the evidence pack a regulator would ask for on mechanical machine guarding.
- Make the reporting route for hazards in mechanical machine guarding short and non-punitive.
- Check that lessons from mechanical machine guarding reached other sites doing similar work.
Mechanical machine guarding: contractors and shared workplaces
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Rescue arrangements for mechanical machine guarding that have been rehearsed
- Audit application of mechanical machine guarding controls at the workface.
- Record what was learned when mechanical machine guarding did not go as planned.
- Remove steps in mechanical machine guarding that add effort without adding assurance.
- Check that records of mechanical machine guarding answer the questions likely to be asked.
Session 2Who is competent to work on mechanical machine guarding, and how you know
- Set leading indicators for mechanical machine guarding that predict rather than count.
- Confirm isolation and lockout arrangements for mechanical machine guarding are proven before work starts.
- Test the procedure for mechanical machine guarding against a realistic scenario.
- Map the handovers in mechanical machine guarding between functions and secure them.
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- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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- Workshop or Program Participation
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- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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