Review contracts and agreements for the obligations they create around safety training and awareness.
Designing Occupational Safety Training and Awareness Programmes
A practical programme in safety training and awareness for professionals who are accountable for results, not just awareness.
Course Overview
Almost every serious incident involving safety training and awareness was preceded by a signal somebody noticed and nobody escalated. Safety performance on training and awareness degrades quietly during periods when nothing goes wrong. Each session closes with a decision the participant must justify about this strand of occupational health and safety in their own setting. Most organisations already have a policy on safety training and awareness; far fewer can show it working. The course covers the occupational health and safety discipline at the level of detail needed to act, and stops there. It is designed for mixed groups, so that training and awareness is examined from more than one functional angle. Participants gain a realistic view of what safety training and awareness costs and what it returns. Practitioner evidence points the same way: training and awareness improves fastest where responsibility for it is named and owned. It closes by agreeing the smallest change to this aspect of occupational health and safety that would make a visible difference.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Assess the current state of training and awareness against a structured set of criteria rather than impressions.
Assess occupational health exposure arising from safety training and awareness and arrange surveillance.
Investigate incidents involving training and awareness to root cause without suppressing reporting.
Build a register of the risks attaching to safety training and awareness and keep it current.
Carry out a structured risk assessment of training and awareness and rank findings by consequence.
Design the permit and control regime appropriate to the hazards in safety training and awareness.
Who Should Attend
Senior managers who sign the safety policy covering safety training and awareness.
Training officers building competence in training and awareness.
Analysts producing the data on which decisions about safety training and awareness rest.
Managers of multi-site operations seeking consistency in training and awareness.
Occupational health practitioners monitoring exposure from safety training and awareness.
Risk and insurance staff assessing exposure from training and awareness.
Course Modules
Safety training and awareness: culture, human factors and why controls fail
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Rescue arrangements for safety training and awareness that have been rehearsed
- Name a single owner for each element of safety training and awareness.
- Review whether training and awareness is aligned with the objectives of the work site.
- Benchmark the organisation's safety training and awareness against comparable operations.
- Draft the minimum viable safety procedure for training and awareness.
Session 2Building the method for training and awareness step by step
- Rehearse the briefing on safety training and awareness that would follow an incident.
- Close out corrective actions on training and awareness with a named owner and date.
- Test that protective equipment specified for safety training and awareness fits and is maintained.
- Set leading indicators for training and awareness that predict rather than count.
Training and awareness: reporting, investigation and root cause
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Who is competent to work on training and awareness, and how you know
- Audit application of safety training and awareness controls at the workface.
- Compare the cost of training and awareness with the cost of its absence.
- Apply management of change to any modification affecting safety training and awareness.
- Anticipate the objections training and awareness will raise and prepare the answers.
Session 2The decisions in training and awareness that cannot be delegated
- Confirm that contractual obligations around safety training and awareness are understood.
- Verify contractor competence and method statements for training and awareness.
- Set out the decisions in safety training and awareness that require sign-off and by whom.
- Confirm that reporting on training and awareness reaches the people who can act.
Training and awareness: hazard identification and risk assessment
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Holding contractors on training and awareness to your own standard
- Check the procedure for safety training and awareness against how the work is actually done.
- Map the handovers in training and awareness between functions and secure them.
- Build the internal briefing that explains safety training and awareness to those affected.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on training and awareness.
Session 2Checking that protective equipment for safety training and awareness actually protects
- Rehearse the emergency and rescue plan for safety training and awareness, do not just publish it.
- Establish the boundary of training and awareness and record what sits outside it.
- Record who is authorised to work on safety training and awareness and when authorisation expires.
- Verify permits covering training and awareness are issued by someone competent to assess the hazard.
Training and awareness: emergency response and rescue
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What to measure in training and awareness and what to ignore
- Identify the hazards in safety training and awareness and rank them by consequence, not by frequency.
- Ask the people doing training and awareness what makes the procedure hard to follow.
- Check that records of safety training and awareness answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of training and awareness current.
Session 2Assessing the hazards in training and awareness without turning it into paperwork
- Confirm that controls on safety training and awareness sit as high up the hierarchy as reasonably practicable.
- Investigate the last incident involving training and awareness to root cause, not to immediate cause.
- Assess long-term health exposure created by safety training and awareness and arrange surveillance.
- Check that lessons from training and awareness 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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- 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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