Assess occupational health exposure arising from escape routes and assembly points and arrange surveillance.
Designing Safe Escape Routes and Field Assembly Points
Move escape routes and assembly points from general awareness to a repeatable, reviewable practice.
📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Regulators judge escape routes and assembly points on evidence of application, not on the existence of a document. Almost every serious incident involving assembly points was preceded by a signal somebody noticed and nobody escalated. What blocks progress on the occupational health and safety discipline is usually unclear ownership rather than unclear intent. They acquire practical criteria for judging when escape routes and assembly points is working and when it is only appearing to. The method assumes participants will be challenged on their handling of the occupational health and safety capability and prepares them for it. It suits anyone whose decisions touch assembly points, in large organisations and small ones alike. Post-incident reviews keep identifying weaknesses in escape routes and assembly points that were visible long before the incident. Content is organised around the decisions practitioners actually face in assembly points, not around theory headings. The final module sets out how progress on the wider occupational health and safety agenda will be evidenced six months later.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Design emergency response and rescue arrangements covering assembly points.
Identify the failure points in escape routes and assembly points most likely to cause loss, and control them first.
Translate policy on assembly points into procedures that hold up under day-to-day pressure.
Plan the training and refresher cycle sustaining competence in escape routes and assembly points.
Build the safety case or justification supporting assembly points.
Set acceptance criteria for escape routes and assembly points before work begins rather than after.
Who Should Attend
Senior managers who sign the safety policy covering escape routes and assembly points.
Internal auditors verifying controls over assembly points.
Health and safety officers and advisers responsible for escape routes and assembly points.
Quality staff verifying that assembly points performs as designed.
Coordinators responsible for keeping records and documentation of escape routes and assembly points current.
Risk and insurance staff assessing exposure from assembly points.
Course Modules
Escape routes and assembly points: leading indicators, audit and assurance
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The cost of escape routes and assembly points and how to present it
- Rehearse the emergency and rescue plan for escape routes and assembly points, do not just publish it.
- Verify six months later that changes to assembly points have held.
- Verify permits covering escape routes and assembly points are issued by someone competent to assess the hazard.
- Audit application of assembly points controls at the workface.
Session 2Writing a procedure for assembly points people can follow at 3 a.m.
- Test that protective equipment specified for escape routes and assembly points fits and is maintained.
- Rank the weaknesses in assembly points by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Reduce the variation in how escape routes and assembly points is carried out between teams.
- Record who is authorised to work on assembly points and when authorisation expires.
Assembly points: emergency response and rescue
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Checking that protective equipment for assembly points actually protects
- Check that lessons from escape routes and assembly points reached other sites doing similar work.
- Identify the hazards in assembly points and rank them by consequence, not by frequency.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates escape routes and assembly points is under control.
- Remove steps in assembly points that add effort without adding assurance.
Session 2The exposure from assembly points that shows up years later
- Map the handovers in escape routes and assembly points between functions and secure them.
- Identify where judgement in assembly points is legitimate and where it is not.
- Check the procedure for escape routes and assembly points against how the work is actually done.
- Close out actions on assembly points rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
Assembly points: protective equipment and its verification
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Who is competent to work on assembly points, and how you know
- Confirm that contractual obligations around escape routes and assembly points are understood.
- Test the procedure for assembly points against a realistic scenario.
- Assess long-term health exposure created by escape routes and assembly points and arrange surveillance.
- Check that records of assembly points answer the questions likely to be asked.
Session 2Investigating an incident involving escape routes and assembly points without hunting for blame
- Set escalation thresholds for escape routes and assembly points that work out of hours.
- Close out corrective actions on assembly points with a named owner and date.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about escape routes and assembly points.
- Investigate the last incident involving assembly points to root cause, not to immediate cause.
Assembly points: procedures, permits and practical controls
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Building lasting competence in assembly points
- Confirm that controls on escape routes and assembly points sit as high up the hierarchy as reasonably practicable.
- Anticipate the objections assembly points will raise and prepare the answers.
- Prepare the evidence pack a regulator would ask for on escape routes and assembly points.
- Build the internal briefing that explains assembly points to those affected.
Session 2Testing assembly points before relying on it
- Ask the people doing escape routes and assembly points what makes the procedure hard to follow.
- Confirm isolation and lockout arrangements for assembly points are proven before work starts.
- Make the reporting route for hazards in escape routes and assembly points short and non-punitive.
- Review whether assembly points is aligned with the objectives of the work site.
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